Alice Levine

Sleeping with the Far Right (2019)

In February 2019, Channel 4 broadcast Sleeping with the Far Right, a film in which Levine lived for a week with British nationalist Jack Sen in Southport, Merseyside.^[7][20] Sen was a former member of UKIP, which he was expelled from for an anti-Semitic tweet, and the BNP, from which he was suspended for his extremism.^[21][22] He was born Dilip Sengupta to a half-Indian, half-South African father and English mother, grew up (aged seven to twenty) in America, and moved to the UK where he married a Ukrainian woman.^[7][22] Levine said that "it’s not really a film about politics, it’s film about identity at the heart".^[21] She stayed in the house with the director, and the production rented a house nearby in case there was any need for the team to remove themselves from the home.

Sex Actually with Alice Levine (2021–2023)

In September 2021, Levine presented the first series of the Channel 4 show Sex Actually with Alice Levine [originally titled Sex Odyssey], which was co-produced by documentary maker Louis Theroux and his production company Mindhouse.^{[23][24][25][20]} It explored unconventional relationships across the world.^[26] The first series covered 'cam' models (episode 1); BDSM (episode 2); and sex and wellness (episode 3). The second three-part series began airing on 27 February 2023.^[20] It covered the integration of technology in sex (episode 1); multi-partner relationships (episode 2); and 'feedism' and 'gaining' (episode 3).^[26] In 2023, Levine told Country & Town House that she was working with Theroux and Mindhouse on new documentary projects and ideas.^[5]

BBC Radio 1 (2013–2020)

In January 2013, Levine joined BBC Radio 1 to present a show with Phil Taggart in the John Peel slot (10pm to midnight, Mondays to Thursdays).^[27][10] In August 2014, she left her weeknight slot with Taggart to launch and present a solo weekend afternoon show on the station (1–4pm), taking over from Huw Stephens.^[10][28]

On 15 July 2020, Levine announced in an Instagram post that she was leaving Radio 1 after nine years at the station.^{[29][30][31][32]} Her last show was on 9 August 2020 after a series of three farewell shows.

My Dad Wrote a Porno (2015–2022)

Levine is one of the three co-creators of the podcast My Dad Wrote a Porno,^[33] alongside Jamie Morton and James Cooper who met whilst studying at Leeds University.^[6] It launched in September 2015 and ended in 2022 after 181 episodes.^[34][35] Each episode of the podcast featured Morton reading a new chapter of Belinda Blinked, an amateur erotic novel series written by his father under the pen name Rocky Flintstone.^[35][36] Morton, Cooper, and Levine reacted to the material and provided a running commentary.^[8]

The podcast had shorter spin-off episodes called 'Footnotes', featuring a range of a-list names, such as Dame Emma Thompson, Lin Manuel Miranda and Michael Sheen.^[37][36] Levine says she looks up to Julia Davis, and was very pleased when Davis and Vicky Pepperdine (as their characters Joan and Jericha) appeared on the podcast.^[5]

The podcast had two world tours,^[36] which included locations such as the Sydney Opera House,^[9] Royal Albert Hall,^[38] and Radio City Music Hall.^[37] It also went to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.^[35] In 2019, the team produced an HBO special based on their live show.^[39]

Merchandise was created for the series.^[8] The team (Levine, Morton, Cooper and Morton's father) also created a book, My Dad Wrote a Porno: The Fully Annotated Edition of Belinda Blinked, published in October 2016 by Quercus.

My Dad Wrote a Porno has been dubbed the "most successful podcast in British history".^[37] It was given awards including the British Podcast Awards, and a Webby Award in 2019 in the comedy category.^[40][41] It surpassed fifty million downloads worldwide in 2015,^[35] and by the end of its final sixth series had reached 430 million downloads.^[37] It was regularly at the top of the iTunes podcast chart.^[35]

At the end of the series in 2022, the presenters said there would be something else to come out of this project,^[36] but this has yet to materialise.

British Scandal (2021)

In April 2021, Levine began hosting Wondery true crime podcast British Scandal with Matt Forde, which tells the stories of British history.^[34][42] The series was nominated for Best Entertainment Podcast and won The Spotlight Award at the British Podcast Awards in 2022.^[43]

Other (2022–present)

In the 2022, Levine presented Very Modern Quests, a role-playing improv podcast released as an Audible Original.^[44] The series featured participants such as Greg James, Joe Lycett and Phil Wang.

In 2024, Levine produced and presented The Price of Paradise, a true story based around 2002 TV show No Going Back, detailing the story of Jayne Gaskin, who bought a private island off Nicaragua.^[12][45][46]

Levine co-founded and runs the Crossed Wires Podcast Festival, held in Sheffield, alongside producer Dino Sofos and Tramlines co-founder James O'Hara.^[47][34][48] The first festival was supported by the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, which provided £325,000 of funding for the event. In the second year, Greg James also joined as Creative Director.