#395 - A Heavy Weft, A Talented Sheep Dog and 31 Minutes with a Nun
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fresh from their Christmas Cracker Elis and John are in a sense celebrating Boxing Day, but in anoth...
#394 - Elis and John’s Christmas Cracker
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Mmmh yeah Christmastime.” In a linear sense it’s Christmas Day. In a circular sense it’s so...
#393 - High Budget Dreams, Smacks of Mellor and That Fried Tuesday Feeling
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is sierras of the papas broadcasting, and news just in: we’re all out of papas!John’s losin...
#392 - Not Letting Down 750 GPs, The Jet2 Prerogative and Sophie Duker
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“All suffering is resistance to suffering” is soon followed by “we are technically a comedy po...
#391 - Egg on Cord, Perpetual Tennis and A Very Successful Brown Owl
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are records today for pre-Cymru Connection heads in hands as Britain’s clumsiest Welsh langu...
#390 - Annsbie, We Lube Up and The Hypothetical Widow Tour 2025
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Purgatory is nothing. This is hell.” You’ll never guess which presenter’s mouth that inspir...
#389 - Big Leg, The Cymdown Connection and Plugged Into His Router Just For You
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The term ‘firing on all cylinders’ was invented for 72 minutes of audio just like this, because ...
#388 - Let’s Lavender, Sounds Like My Love Life and Celya AB
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the night before Elis’ big Welsh stand up gig, and he’s packed all the essentials needed ...
#387 - Neil’s Crane Company, Paid In Chinese and Lightning In A Handbag
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a lot of inspiring going on today in Elis and John towers. And perhaps unsurprisingly, onc...
#386 - Daft Brian, Going Gallagher and The Phillips Head Bat Signal
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John’s back in action - well to a degree. He can now eat Dairylea on toast and has to stand for th...
#385 - Yards From Davie, Calippos Wouldn’t Melt and The World’s Wealthiest Cat
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Huge news from Leeds, for Producer Dave has been in the vicinity of the Director General himsen. So...
#384 - Pretty Podcast Boys, Short Tempered Cyborgs and All Time is Wasted Time
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At what point does a bum recovery journey transmogrify into a spiritual journey? Probably around the...
#383 - Ballon D’Arts, Banter Zone Jet Lag and The Enema Within
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The march of AI has engulfed everything in its path: cars no longer need drivers, paintings no longe...
#382 - Spooooky Intimate Bum Procedures, Perfect BBC Noise and Same Postcode Different Houses
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the only way to spend Halloween? It’s having a spoooooky intimate bum procedure of course...
#381 - Your Main Crem, A Talentless Forsyth and The Great Traybake Swindle
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bye Bye Mr Audio, Hello Mr Saturday Night! There are rumours that Saturday night TV is dead. That it...
#380 - Lord VPN, Bullied On The Boundary and Stansbie
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Drink in it folks, we’re living in a new golden age. That’s right, the lesser talked about field...
#379 - Bishop Gore Blanks, Forwarded Many Times x, and There Is An ‘I’ In Lazio
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jekyll and Hyde isn’t a work of fiction. Nor is James McAvoy in hit film Split. No. If you were to...
#378 - Wacko Lacto, Gatwick Fresh and Falling Into a Big Ditch
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do we all do before going on holiday? Check we have our Big Three (keys, boarding pass, passpor...
#377 - Dropped In The Riff Tank, Two Dads (Not Gay) and Ania Magliano
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When one thinks of the great socialisers ‘John’ and ‘Robins’ are two words that don’t imme...
#376 - Skeggsy, Deggsy and £360 Cash
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wheel the to 1:50 scale Maine Road birthday cake out, Producer Dave is turning 40!George Orwell posi...
#375 - Gravel Man, My Sex Club Year and Space Cop Heart Rates
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's all about heights today, as despite scaling the lofty heights of the digital UK audio comedy ch...
#374 - Dust or Leaves, A Tight Three Seconds and Humour! Humour! Humour!
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After the wave of excitement around Mr Audio’s new Welsh podcast project 'Welsh Rarebit: Grilled b...
#373 - Street Juice, The Cymru Cul-de-sac and 10 Sketches About Soup
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elis and John have been on journeys this week, both metaphorically and literally. Yes we cover their...
#372 - My Little Lover, The ABBA Gold Approach and Cuffed by the Vice Squad
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s happened. Elis and John have turned into crypto bros. This is now a crypto pod. It was only a...
#371 - 3 Features & the Truth, Get It Done and Welsh Rarebit: Grilled by Elis James
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a giddy John we encounter today, for our hero is about to embark on his yearly golfing pilgri...
#370 - Bran Time, Sky Blue Limos and Fellowship on the Ring Road
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tick tock Robins went down in history. But tick tock Masterman? Now that’s a whole different ball ...
#369 - All Beauty, A Sexier Welshman and David O’Doherditty
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oh we do have some fun don’t we. And if the Funometer was measuring in funtometres then today’s ...
#368 - A Hot Lung, Busking Medieval English, and The Importance of News (On the Hour, Every Hour) on Student Radio
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As time continues its cruel, relentless, and inevitable march onwards, thoughts turn to retirement p...
#367 - Marie’s Tethered, Grown Men and Oh Really Fennel?!
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After such vigorous dancing last time out the boys have done their stretches and downed their recove...
#366 - The Dance
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re all excited about dancing the dance. The most intimate dance. Cheek to cheek entering the ba...
#365 - Big Fat Tears, My Thumb’s In France and Phil Wang
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’ll throw down the gauntlet here. This is *classic* Elis and John. A podium place episode. Champ...
#364 - Like It Or Lump It, Moon Faced Boys and Greg James’ Dark Underbelly
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A union that we’ve waited 15 years for between a pair significantly involved in the UK’s cultura...
#363 - Accepting Sap, Backing Bellingham and This is How You Use Noel
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With post-wedding factors still in play, it’s another trip down the pre-recorded well today. But d...
#362 - Three Crazy Guys Hanging Out, DCI Spike Spike McSpike and Michelangelo’s Mike
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You might have been expecting to come across the full lowdown of what is being described by Hello an...
#361 - 55 Year Olds in The Narberth Area, Dell Tower and The Past, Present & Future of Rush Radio
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Well, Fine and Unwell: the three states. Constantly switching across protagonists with one having to...
#360 - Yesby, Classic Gag Churners, and The Big Storm Before the Bigger Storm
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Twas the night before Elis’s wedding, and though we can’t offer you non-stirring mice, we can gu...
#359 - Puppet Paul, Mindful Diarrhoea and Doing the M6 for Comic Relief
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Elis and John realm remains a very zen place to be. So grab your headphones, get into a comforta...
#358 - Jimmy Grief
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John’s been on a silent retreat. Today he breaks his silence with a man, who unlike him, ultimatel...
#357 - A Podium Place for Thought, Désolé the Devolved Discuss and A Big Baguette that’s Uniting the World
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elis and John have been overcome by two forces this week: Olympic fever, and the stark realisation t...
#356 - Look Into It Dave, Curtis Coitus and HS Number 2
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
36 hours. That is the approximate time it takes to travel to from Melton Mowbray to Gibraltar via co...
#355 - Fillet, Sirloin and Rump
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Great Organiser is Robins. And his latest trick was to organise the ultimate stag for a Welshman...
#354 - A 5 Minute Curry, 10,000 Johnsons and A ULEZ Compliant Wedding
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are weddings run on facts? Do they need to be ULEZ compliant? Is it a laugh when people respond to q...
#353 - Symphonic Bowels, Dry Cardboard Chips and A Better Listener than Henry VIII
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Elis James meets his idols there’s usually only one outcome: he gets it wrong. But a chance m...
#352 - Marl, A Digital Bum Examination and Taking 2 Weeks Off Jalapeños
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John’s world has been rocked from beneath him. Our hero's fears have piled up, and a trip to the m...
#351 - Six Figure Per Month Thickos, The Cymru Connection and Let Him Do His Cow
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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#350 - Smoked Milk, Wimbers and Let It Beeb Sounds
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Surprise surprise”, not the words of the late Cilla Black, but those of Mr Dave Masterman, as t...
#349 - Emergency Intro, The Nanny Estate and The Third Keir
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Remember the Cheeky Girls of noughties Lembit Opik fame? Well today it’s the Cheeky Boys. And form...
#348 - Jazz Flats, Guff Soup and You Can’t Row With Your Mind
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A schism has come between Elis and John that may signal the end of Britain’s youngest broadcasters...
#347 - The Great Absolver, Winton’s Well and A Google Docs Kinda Guy
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the horizon approaching the dusty Elis and John town in the podcast wild west is an indiscernible...
#346 - £1 Nights Out, Vaping More Than Breathing and Walking Dion Broken Glass
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do you get when you cross a mad dad with a donkey? It’s the question we’ve all been asking,...
#345 - Burdening Burden, The Ultimate Head and A Dizzy at Tebay
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Move over Geraint Thomas, there are some new Welsh thighs on the cycling scene. Elis’s heroic cycl...
#344 - Generation Bodge Job, The Thinking Drinker’s Degree, and A Wazzaaa of Crosbys
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If podcasts were countries, and episodes were drivers, then this iteration of Elis and John would be...
#343 - Baff, Mooch Ma Mooch and Higs Higs Higs Higs Higs
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elis is hoisted by his own genetic petard today. For he and Isy have combined to create the perfect ...
#342 - Great Articles Going Unwritten, The Scottish Experience and Good & Long
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Euros are kicking off but Elis is sad. Because due to penalties, rather than being on the lash w...
#341 - Calippolitical, Italia ’90 Games and Eating Bao Buns in Complete Silence
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re heading towards quite frankly Australian levels of being rattled on today’s Made Up Game a...
#340 - Bog Body Ready, Long Haul Phaal and Nish Kumar
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s show is a titanic showdown between two arch-nemeses. It’s Disraeli against Gladstone, it...
#339 - Crisp 147s, The Dave Farce and Miss Havisham's Warzone
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you've ever seen the film Stepbrothers then the behaviour exhibited by man-children Ferrell and C...
#338 - Task Masters, Blue Moon Peter and Beginner’s Luck: The Adrian Chiles Story
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the great comedy gameshow performers is in the house as Taskmaster concludes. Whether that’...
#337 - Project Balance, The State of Pitta Breads and Non-Sexual Condensation Writing
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elis and John embark on their 1,000 hours of political podcasting over the next 5 weeks, much to Pro...
#336 - Tuffers’ Glow, Buffet Behaviour and Babes In The Mauve Interior
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dave’s back not with a vengeance, but for an absolute bumper buffet of an episode. For there’s n...
#335 - Cursed FC, The Peter Clause and The Tide On Your Nethers
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Well, well, well. Every so often the old gal which is Made Up Games throws a grenade into the mix. A...
#334 - Fish Finger Frenzy, Piña Colada Eggs and a Daveless Space
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a podcast-first first as Elis and John enter the unknown: Cheadle Hulme’s most handsome pro...
#333 - Fine For Bride, So Many Reasons and If You Come For The Queen You Best Not Miss
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A huge moment for both Swifties and Red Breasts alike, for today’s the day we hear the hit new sin...
#332 - Mr Audio, Love's Best Lubricant and The Man Who Can Eat Three Curries
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
All sorts of achievements flying around on the show. Some aural and others gastronomic as the boys r...
#331 - Five Star Bums, Tax Over Taylor and Too Punctual For Love
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘Smorgasbord’ is a word frequently deployed to describe the Elis and John podcast. A buffet-styl...
#330 - Sleepy Elis, A Corporate Shill for Big Thick and David Gandy
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Knees are shaking and pulses are racing as none other than international superstar model David Gandy...
#329 - Sacked for Sadness, Hated for Content, and A Steady Hand on the Tiller of Love
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The boys are beset by worries this week: John is in a tizz over whether his faulty car will be cover...
#328 - The Golden Age of Whaling, Five Whimsical Bananas, and A Robin and A Swift
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode tackles the Big Questions, but only if by Big Questions you mean specifically: wha...
#327 - Tim’s Rumpus Room, Pork Chop Calves and Buckinghamshire Living
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you thought this show was your safe space away from pop behemoth Taylor Swift’s single handed t...
#326 - Chiles Parsnips, Elis St. John, and Superfruit Cigs
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do the blue touch paper and the switchboards have in common? They’ve both been lit, that’s ...
#325 - Taut John, Cake In Your Wallet and Joanne McNally
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Once the Welsh football media spring dries up Elis needs a retirement plan. Thanks to his dashing go...
#324 - Blancmange Bullying, The Custard Slice Scene, and Run to Win and Hate Yourself
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If this show doesn’t become the go-to running podcast of 2024, we’re not sure what will. For all...
#323 - Fleet McWrap, Handsome Turf and George Kink Lads Only
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tuesdays used to mean the odd Champions League fixture and Holby City. Now they mean podcasts. More ...
#322 - Specs Appeal, Virgil van Dave, and Toilets At Dench
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new John Robins has emerged. Move over Brains and Colin Firth in 'A Single Man' for there's a new ...
#321 - Psychic Cats, Second Rate Roses and Out of Riff Ammo
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The lovely Lou Sanders is in the studio and brings along her wonderfully chaotic aura.Oh and it's de...
#320 - The Testosterone Twins, Three Shirt Robins and Restless Irritable Discontented
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a two hander today as John and Dave fly solo. But that isn’t to say that we’re not bursti...
#319 - Baddies on the Beach, 5 Live At 30 and Thank God for Zabaleta
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
5 Live is 30 Years Old. A milestone indeed but it makes the station even more criminally young than ...
#318 - Chieveley James, Project Digital Life and The More The Murrayer
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Robins is an analogue guy. There's no one on earth whose life is more dictated by paper than he...
#317 - Tasting Collapse, Ken Coe and James Hoffmann
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Never has the mood at Elis and John HQ been more nervous or excitable. For it is a momentous day. Th...
#316 - Terrace Fashion Week, Too Much Pastry and Stopping At Heston
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered how our hosts would fare as children’s podcast presenters? Well thanks to t...
#315 - The Tap Scene, Spanish Deception and Cheaper Derby
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re a month into the Great Reset and Elis and John are so into the swing of things that they’r...
#314 - King Kia, Three Course Curry and Cow Pat PR
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today Elis and John are at one with nature. (No, not in a sexy way Producer Dave). They're surviving...
#313 - Weaving Willow, Vague Cawl and Soft Play VAR
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elis James and John Robins are two of the UK's youngest and most talented broadcasters, and over the...
#312 - Swansea Spielberg, Mooning Armada and a Stain on Global Culture
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
According to the Full Moon Calendar, we're still three weeks away from the next biggest moony of the...
#311 - Bonce Funk, Improving Esperanto and The Audio Foyer
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's an old saying in the English language: 'A watched pot never boils'. But thankfully, the same...
#310 - Didgeridinners, Our Oprah and Telford Is A Tear Duct
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An alien lands on Earth. As an audiophile, the first thing they do when they touch down is press pla...
#309 - Condo Cheese, Stepdad Energy and Psychic Hangovers
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Still aching after their Digital Decade celebrations, Elis and John somehow managed to find the stre...
#308 - The Double Ds, O'Doherty Ditties and A Lesson In Jingles
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the sun sets on a digitised decade of content for Messrs James and Robins, it was only fitting to...
#307 - Pleasure Parity, Content Camaraderie and A Thumbless Month
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tuesday: in the past it was often looked at as one of the less-favourable days of the week. The week...
#306 - The Banter Box, Six Feet From Stardom and Where's Lincoln?
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The content machine is now well and truly oiled up and ploughing ahead at lightning speed, as Elis J...
#305 - Anxious Orange, Alpha Max Force and A Tartt Tip-Off
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tuesday 6th February 2024: a day that will go down in history as the day that broadcasting changed f...
The Great Reset: 'Broadcasting Britain Back Better'
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The launch of the brand new Elis James and John Robins podcast is days away, and as the finishing to...
The Great Reset: 'Igniting the Spark'
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elis, John and Producer Dave are busy working on the relaunch of their brand new podcast, but with t...
The Great Reset: 'A Digital Empire'
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Preparations for the brand new Elis James and John Robins podcast are well under way, and the guys a...
The Great Reset: 'Let's Kick This Show Off the Road'
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the launch of their brand new podcast fast approaching, Elis, John and Producer Dave have decid...
#304 - Elis James and John Robins: The Best of 2023
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Marley once sang "In this bright future you can't forget your past", and it's those very words t...
#303 - Robbyns Resolutions, Secret Scents and Chaff Tuesday
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christmas is just around the corner, and whilst many people up and down the country are winding down...
#302 - Sounds & Sons, David D. Craddock and Two Sides of the Groin
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Elis, John and Producer Dave embodied the very definition of 'the voice of the UK' for today's show,...
#301 - Going Grain, Hannon Handshakes and Peak Bleak
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the end of the year fast approaching the hot topic on everyone's lips is forgiveness. Whether i...
#300 - Digital Decades, Comedic Offbeatsman and Basic Podcast Strategy
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Back in May 2019 who would have thought that Elis James and John Robins, battered and bruised by a b...