{"author_name":"Panic Room","author_url":"https://art19.com/shows/panic-room","description":" News is everywhere and it’s all bad! So, John Robins has sealed himself in his panic room and he won’t come out until the world’s fixed. Did you know that we’re rapidly running out of Grave Space? Or that the increasing convenience of modern life is slowly infantilizing us? When is someone going to stop social media ripping society apart? And is it possible to eat anything at all without contributing to the destruction of the planet? Each week John discovers something that makes him so anxious he can barely sit still, and his two trusted comedian advisors Olga Koch and Eshaan Akbar compete to find an ingenious solution by consulting with experts and road-testing their ideas. Crammed full of fantastical flights of fancy – and also some actual facts - Panic Room might just be the series we need to save humanity from certain doom. John Robins is one of the most critically acclaimed stand-up comedians of his generation. Having completed numerous sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, and picking up the Chortle Awards for Best Compere, one for Best Radio, and A Three Weeks Editors Choice Award, in 2017 he scooped the big one, winning The Edinburgh Comedy Award for his show ‘The Darkness of Robins’. A 68 date UK tour followed, culminating in a sold out show at London’s Hammersmith Eventim Apollo. John is a familiar face on TV having appeared on Live At The Apollo (BBC), Mock The Week (BBC), Drunk History (Comedy Central), Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled (Dave), Live At The Comedy Store (Comedy Central) and Stand-Up Central (Comedy Central). He is best known for his radio and podcast partnership with Elis James. In 2014 they began presenting a show for XFM (latterly Radio X) in the slot which had previously hosted Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, Adam and Joe and Danny Wallace. The podcast of The Elis James and John Robins show was a runaway success, receiving in excess of half a million downloads a month. In 2019, after five years at the statio","html":"","provider_name":"ART19","provider_url":"https://art19.com","title":"Panic Room","type":"rich","version":"1.0","width":720,"height":505}