Comedy / Podcast
‘Social Moths’: Amy Mason, Harriet Dyer and Lindsey Santoro launch new podcast
Friends and comedians Amy Mason, Harriet Dyer and Lindsey Santoro are starting a new podcast based around what they call “the struggle to socialise in 2026”.
Social Moths has been in the works for a few months, and will be launching on February 1.
In their own very distinct ways, all three of the trio are characterised for their unfiltered standup, unafraid to mine their personal struggles for their art.
(l-r): Harriet Dyer, Amy Mason and Lindsey Santoro, aka the Social Moths podcast (cropped) – photo: courtesy of the artists
Yet despite their on-stage, online, radio and TV success (both Dyer and Santoro have appeared on Live at the Apollo, and Mason has, at the last count, +25 million TikTok views), they face common challenges in their day-to-day lives.
Those difficulties became the impetus for the podcast.
Harriet Dyer at Live at The Apollo – photo: BBC
“From lone parenting to bipolar disorder, ADHD to phone addiction, Social Moths touches on the reasons so many of us spend way too much time at home alone”, they explain.
Both Mason and Dyer are based in Bristol, and Santoro in Birmingham, and the three have become close friends.
Lindsey Santoro – photo: courtesy of the artist
“I love these women and it’s a joy to spend time with them both”, comments Dyer. “Honestly we are having an absolute hoot”, admits Santoro. “And getting out the house.”
For Mason, who is soon to play the biggest homecoming gig of her standup career, at Bristol Old Vic on February 23, the experience has been similarly positive. “I’m delighted to making something with two of the funniest women in the world”, she says. “Listeners are in for a treat.”
Amy Mason – photo: Lucy Ridges
Podcast episodes will be released weekly, and will include regular features including listener dilemmas, as well as updates on the trio’s respective attempts to socialise or interact with other people that week – from coffee dates with friends to finally booking a medical appointment.
Listeners can expect to hear them variously facing setbacks, and making progress – recounted in a way that is “always funny, and sometimes pretty moving”.
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Social Moths launches on February 1 on all podcast platforms, including YouTube. Follow the podcast @socialmothspod.
Main photo: Harriet Dyer, Amy Mason and Lindsey Santoro
Read next:
- Self-confessed ‘fun aunt’ Amy Annette is back with hit second show ‘Busy Body’
- Amy Mason on creating material, balancing real and digital spaces and the biggest homecoming gig of her life
- Harriet Dyer: ‘There’s nothing that’s mended me like comedy’
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