5 O' Clock Apron: guest pitching info, reach and format

Should you pitch it?

Guest activity

Often has guests

55% of recent episode titles look like interviews

Episode length

40 min

Median of recent episodes. That is the commitment you would be asking for.

Publishing

Monthly

33 episodes · last 2026-07-22

Language

English

The feed says "en" without a region, so the country is unknown.

Where it's from

Not established

No .uk domain and no region in the feed language. Apple reports the storefront, not the show, so we do not guess.

Reach

58

Percentile among shows you could realistically get on. Not a download count.

Check whether they charge. Some shows sell guest slots rather than booking them, and rates in some fields run to thousands. Nothing in a podcast feed reliably says so, so we do not claim either way. Ask before you write the pitch.

Worth a pitch. This show publishes its own contact, sits outside the national chart, is independently published, and its recent episodes show it books guests.

What the show says about itself

Chef and food writer Claire Thomson invites you to join her as she steps out of her kitchen to discover what's cooking in the home kitchens of Britain and beyond. Claire is renowned for her authentic take on home cooking and loved for her inspirational and no nonsense approach to food and cookery. In this podcast, Claire is on a mission to discover and cook other people's favourite, tried and tested home recipes. Travelling across the country, each episode drops you into the heart of a new kitchen. Cooking shoulder to shoulder with guests from every profession other than her own, aprons on, in

Recent episodes

Straight from the feed. The quickest way to judge whether your angle fits.

Lentil Soup with Student Grace Williamson
Butter Chicken with Poet Lemn Sissay
Potato Salad, Gherkins and Mortadella with Gardener Gerald Stratford
Marmitako (Basque Tuna Stew) with Lawyer and Politician Miriam Durántez González
Black Bean Chilli with Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Oxford University Michael Wooldridge
Chicken Curry with Undertaker Dee Ryding

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