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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Eleanor Biggs

‘Like losing a friend’: farewell to Marc Maron’s pioneering podcast WTF

Marc Maron, who has presented WTF for 16 years.
Marc Maron, who has presented WTF for 16 years. Photograph: Elizabeth Viggiano

When I discovered Marc Maron’s influential podcast WTF, I was working in a pub. It was a weird time for me. I had just left university and had absolutely no idea what I was doing with my life, so I moved back home and took on shifts as a waitress and chamber maid.

Podcasts became an escape from my reality of changing sheets on king-sized beds, folding hospital corners and rearranging tiny bottles of shampoo – and none more so than Marc Maron’s WTF.

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