Lovejoy Actually
Episodes
76. Interchangeable Women (The Very Last Gambado)
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Oh HIYYAAAA! The Lovejoy Actually Book Club is OPEN FOR BUSINESS! Em, Pol and Helen return, summoned by a rather vague press release... hey, any excus...
75. Last Tango
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Lovejoy raconteurs and bon vivants* are back for the final time with an extra, extra long episode seeing as it's THE VERY LAST ONE! Pol geeks out...
74. Minty Tequila (Holding the Baby)
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this (very literal) episode we learn about the Cato Street Conspiracy - no thanks to UKTV Play - and enjoy, or not, an old school Lovejoy epsiode r...
73. Live, Laugh, LOVEJOY (Fruit of the Desert)
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What better advice do you need? We enjoy watching a thoroughly naked (according to Em) Lovejoy getting hit by a massive mop this episode, as we also l...
72. Willies Galore! (Beating the Broker)
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we enjoy some interesting sartorial choices and a blossoming bromance this week. There's smut aplenty as the Suffolk PD come up with a rath...
71. Never mind the... | Last of the Uzkoks
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone wants Lovejoy to tell them who owns a godly bread bin - from the Greek Orthodox Church in London to the Dutch Land Reclamation Society - and ...
70. Bit of a Bonk (Guns n Roses)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pol’s run out of white wine (catastrophe) on what is very much not a red wine evening - as you might be able to tell by the audio quality(!) But we ...
69. Chekhov’s Trouser Press (Double Edged Sword)
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An extra long episode with extra voices as we’re joined by the Midsomer Maniacs themselves!! We have an absolute blast discussing this episode where...
68. MEN (Somewhere, Over The Rainbow)
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lovejoy and his band of scallywags (what?) are back and we have a bit of a stare into the abyss listener, but don't worry, it's not very deep. Plenty ...
67. Chesspert (Day of Reckoning)
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sustained peril this episode as we sit through approximately 22 hours of reckoning... Charlotte's in trouble (again) but not to worry, Lovejoy - and n...
66. Tonsil Tennis (Fair Exchange)
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lovejoy - it's like a mullet sandwich made of two lacks of mullet with a mullet filling... anyway, here we are with the first episode of Series 6! Mat...
65. A Long Way From Lavenham
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live free or DIE!! Come with us (and Lovejoy) to the good ol’ US of A replete with diners, cheerleaders, divebars. ‘gators and … interesting num...
64. A Lot of Raff (The Lost Colony - Part One)
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s finally here! Polly’s all time for sure 100% favourite ever episode of Lovejoy! This is part one as we talked for so long about the feature l...
63. The Price Of Fish
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jolly hockey sticks with Chas and the gang at her school reunion - poor Lovejoy! An unashamedly romantic episode this week, where Lovejoy possibly get...
62. May the Peace of Gimbert be upon you (Never Judge A Book)
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An extra long episode because quite frankly we were too excited by RICHARD BRIARS to keep it concise. Fond memories of fudge, a nice easy switcheroo a...
61. Famous in Grimsby (Swings & Roundabouts)
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's our very own version of a mysterious Terry episode as we refuse to resolve the Mumsnet Boswell riddle. Pol has fond memories of the Ribblesdale S...
60. Goose Bumps
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Another lockdown episode in which we ferries, dentists and of course THE PUB... all of which feature heavily in this week, along with the wonderful Mr...
59. Peking Gun
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bert Kwouk's back and so is the peril (and Lovejoy's dressing gown....) in an episode featuring an aging party animal, a Chinese yuppie and a shady or...
58. Bonus Ep! Interview with Andy Rowley
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A little present for Twixtmas! Here's our previously published Patreon interview with Andy Rowley, Bafta award winning production manager, who worked ...
57. Rembrandt - Never Used (Poetic License)
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Disbelief positively floats this episode as Lovejoy encounters more peril, this time because - guess why - that’s right, a friend of Charlotte’s n...
56. Pimp My Sideboard (Stones of Destiny)
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Who cares about Charlie’s sideboard? NOT US! Or our special guest, Mr. Arwel Richards, who joins us for some asides all the way from Magic Wales. We...
55. Lady Biker One (Ducking & Diving)
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A shock exit (rather more whimper than bang, if we’re honest) and an improbably large sideboard this week as Tink and Eric try to go on holiday, whi...
54. Un Podcast Petit (3 Men & A Brittle Lady)
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Helen brings us up to speed with our French grammar this episode as we learn how much Charlie loves porcelain, how much we love Percy the Porcelain an...
53. Tink Finds A Tiger (The Kakiemon Tiger)
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Another cracking episode as we discuss the size of horses, (Julie) fruit baskets, “Rose Bum Man” and the finest French paperweights in East Anglia...
52. Nipple Ring Diversion (A Going Concern)
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Don’t forget me, love… Dave?!”A bit of a tearjerker this week, as we meet Charlotte Cavendish and come to terms with Jane really being gone f...
51. The Last Generation To Be Scared By Mirrors (Who Is The Fairest?)
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An almost feature length episode as we say goodbye to a favourite character (and can't bring ourselves to talk about it!)It's a very "omnious" episode...
50. One To Remember! (Pig in a Poke)
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Back to school everyone, yep we’re back with Series Five (and with Helen!) Another weird birthday present kicks off the plot this episode as we lear...
49. Bonus! Blooper Reel
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’re still on our holidays, but here’s a tiny taster of the much longer blooper reel we dropped for our Patrons last week.You can join us from as...
48. BONUS! Lovejoy Actually Q & A
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You asked, we answered! This is the shorter audio version of the full length q&a video available on our Patreon. We discuss country houses, region...
47. Premature Champagne (Lovejoy Loses It)
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lovejoy is on Eastward Ho (or is it Pebble Mill?) playing down his spookiness with the beautiful Moira - who isn’t averse to showing a bit of leg.We...
46. Mrs Cresswell's Miniature Schnauzer
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s another lockdown episode, this time with special guest Marvin Gore who was frankly delighted by the whole thing - not least that he got an epis...
45. MIVVY (Dainty Dish)
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week Lovejoy takes a trip to South South London to judge a horrible dresser and collect an entire crockery set ‘by montage.’Join us and our v...
44. A Finite Number of Castles (Irish Stew)
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest! Special guest! One of our fantastic Patrons, Kevin, provides maternity cover for Helen this episode, as we get to grips with recording ...
43. My Kinda M'bilia (They Call Me Midas)
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A bittersweet celebration as it’s Helen's last podcast for a while - and the last one we recorded before lockdown - but lots to enjoy, from the pron...
42. Twiglets At A Buffet (God Helps Those)
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The always delightful Liz Smith and a super hot Jason Flemyng feature in this week’s episode as well as a very heroic Eric, the voice of Aslan, Gimb...
41. Cannon(s) Through The Ages (The Galloping Major)
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We open this week after a very exciting trip to Taco Bell (the official restaurant of podcasts, according to Em at least) and a question around the pl...
40. The Lonely Desert of Human Experience (The Judgement of Solomon)
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Please consider donating to our friends at Royal Trinity Hospice at this difficult time! More fever dreams from Lovejoy this episode as we enjoy the w...
39. Bourgeois Birdbox (Fly The Flag)
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Whose Flag Is It Anyway? this week with a randy Beau, a well meaning Auntie and a surprising vicar. Lovejoy and Jane help out Michael Horden (PADDINGT...
38. (The Colour of Mary) The Billiard Table Said Nothing...
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
… but louder this time.Yes, the hen do is back - displaying our terrible cinematic ignorance, reliving our Watership Down childhood traumas and poss...
37. STRADZ (Second Fiddle)
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lovejoy and Jane have made up, just in time for a beautiful violin concert from a man with Very Nineties Hair. Such a nineties episode we think Samant...
36. Particularly Maverick (The Ring)
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're reminded of Tom Wilkinson in a baseball cap in another episode featuring cottage garden paintings, but this time it's Lovejoy who's gone AWOL (d...
35. Anne Bronte's Chamberpot (THE Napoleonic Commode)
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A pint of bitter and a pint of gin please, we're back! Yes, it's Pol the cough, Helen the croak and Em the noise (or is it The Thigh?) return for 2020...
Bonus! Interview with Chris Jury
25 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Christmas everyone, here’s a little present for you all! We sat down with Chris Jury, the actor who played Em’s beloved Eric, to learn all a...
34. Competitive Urination Session (Prague Sun - Two)
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lashings of peril in part two of this Christmas special as Hercule Lovejoy and Catchpole (no Mister) descend in Prague during that beautiful window po...
33. Tepid Tramp (Prague Sun - One)
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
THE WAR! DIAMONDS! Now it’s CHRISTMAS!Happy December one and all, we’re back with a (slightly dark) Season 4 amuse bouche, as we discuss the 1992 ...
The story of our theme!
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re on a bit of a break now as we get ready for Series 4 - in the meantime enjoy this little chat with Mr Marvin Gore who composed and performed o...
32. My Kind of Northerners (Highland Fling)
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a FEATURE LENGTH episode to end Series Three with an added SPECIAL GUEST in the form of Mr. Marvin Gore, creator of the cracking Lovejoy Actual...
31. Ovary Swing (Members Only)
02 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Some excellent yet strangely soothing peril this week as we enjoy Lovejoy’s run in with the local golf club. He’s been drafted in to value their p...
30. Three Ages of Woman (Kids)
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Lovejoy's the name, sleuthing's the game" NO IT ISN’T (but it sort of is) this week as Lovejoy juggles several important but competing priorities -...
29. Archaelogising (Smoke Your Nose)
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s finally here! Polly’s favourite episode!A lovely church, a vicar who is not Ian McKellen and a mysterious object this week as Lovejoy has a r...
28. Old Lady's Junk (Loveknots)
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the series that just keeps on giving it's another one of Polly's favourite episodes! (But not her favourite favourite, that's up next.)Listen along...
27. Fleming's Umbrella (Scotch on the Rocks)
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What a load of old Sollochs this week as we completely fail to understand the point of a (not particularly mysterious) sword that Lovejoy has become o...
26. Bedouin New Romantic (Eric of Arabia)
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A double scoop of jalopy please and a sprinkling of asides this week as an incapacitated Lovejoy has the oddest dream…Join us as we delight in Bert ...
25. Eric The Spy (Benin Bronze)
10 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A lady of an aristocratic bent in need of aid and too embarrassed to ask for help? A scheming posh bloke who can't afford death duties? Champagne at 1...
24. Mega Yogurt Shoot (Angel Trousers)
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Pour yourself a chianti/crack open a surreptitious can for our latest Italian flavoured episode as we discover just who should own “the medals of th...
23. Minton as Metaphor (No Strings)
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tangents galore this week as we enjoy(?) the inevitable breakdown of Lovejoy and Victoria’s burgeoning romance… SOB! Pass us a tissue, we’ve win...
22. The Largest Bronze Seated Outdoor Buddha in South East Asia (Out To Lunch)
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Is painting dead? It’s certainly not feeling very well in this episode where we meet the UK’s leading East Anglian contemporary landscape painter,...
21. This Monking Life (Friends in High Places)
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lovejoy and his lascivious face is back and so are we, with the first episode of SERIES THREE (how?!)And what an episode - it really has everything: a...
Kym Do!
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Another bonus episode to tide you over til Series 3 begins. We took our #1 Patron Kym Brosnan to the pub and talked all things Lovejoy in possibly the...
Bonus Bloopers
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're taking a break between series, so enjoy these scraps from the cutting room floor while you wait for Series Three - there's a longer version on P...
20. Frobel's Return? (Riding in Rollers / The Black Virgin of Vladimir)
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
BRI-AN BLESS-ED joins the cast this week and we’re here for it listener, we are here for it. We’ve also got our first podcast coup with an amazing...
19. Boats Through The Ages (Lily's Pearls)
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Deck it out with antiques - they don’t have to be new ones!” None of us can make head nor tail of what’s happening this episode as we don’t...
18. Little Ninja (Raise The Hispanic)
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As Tinker observes “the best of us can fall prey to alcoholic fantasy” but is this really what’s happened to Lovejoy in the case of the disappea...
17. Hot Smut! (Sugar & Spice)
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a real trip down Memory Lane (via Ambleside Avenue) this week for the intrepid hens, as they manfully untangle another Lovejoy mystery plot wit...
16. French Connection (National Wealth)
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
More embarrassed aristocracy (well, film aristocracy - Jean Kent!) this week as Lovejoy leaps to Madeleine Gilbert’s rescue when she falls foul of c...
15. Woman's Hour (One Born Every Minute)
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Buckle in snowflakes! We’ve some original 90s attitudes to unpick this episode, as we swallow a few spoonfuls of misogyny and get vaguely uncomforta...
14. Pikelets (Who Dares Sings)
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year everyone, we’re back from the pub!In this episode we enjoy some absolutely cracking writing, as Lady Jane and Lovejoy work together t...
Bonus Ep - Books!
25 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Enjoy a Christmas bonus episode all about the Lovejoy novels by Jonathan Gash. Recorded in the field (aka the pub) listening to this one with headphon...
13. A Cross Squirrel (Montezuma's Revenge)
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Pulling cardigans at the ready, it’s another episode of Lovejoy Actually! This week Pol loses the plot, Em raises her concerns for the academic comm...
12. Frothy Coffee (Bin Diving)
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lovejoy finds himself doing yet another favour for Jane and Eric falls foul of a gang of bullying bin men in a mysterious dumpster-diving commotion th...
11. Helter Smelter (The Italian Venus)
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Vulnerable Lovejoy is on the case this week, doing a Mysterious Favour for Jane and taking a bronze to the head in the process. Ouch! We’re delighte...
10. Welcome, Miriam! (Just Desserts)
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lovejoy’s back and so are we! Welcome to the first episode of Series Two, where we can’t tell a dresser from a dressing table, Em gets much too ex...
Happy Birthday Ian McShane!
29 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We couldn’t help but mark the occasion in son ~ Many Happy returns Mr. McShane, from the three of us, and our wine 🍷🎂🍷🎂🍷 ...
9. Death And Birmingham (Death And Venice)
26 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Show us yer campanile, it’s the season - ahem - SERIES finale as Lovejoy takes Venice for some reason we still haven’t completely worked out, desp...
Dudley Sutton R.I.P.
16 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We were deeply saddened to hear about the death of Dudley Sutton yesterday. A respected actor who played many roles over a career spanning over five d...
8. The Look of Love...joy (The March Of Time)
12 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Swearing, spoilers and cocaine this week as Lovejoy's spidey senses tingle enough to pick up a cheapy antique clock with some not-so-cheapy love lette...
7. ANTIQUES MAN (The Real Thing)
29 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mere traces of peril this week as Lovejoy's rescue complex turns away from needy widows to the shopkeepers of Norfolk who have found themselves part o...
6. Personal Nun (To Sleep No More)
15 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lovejoy favours a scarf in this episode as he gets to the bottom of a double fiddle to help out a widow in distress (again.) We finally get around to ...
5. Peak Vintage McShane (The Judas Pair)
01 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's the darkest episode to date as Lovejoy comes up against a Real Baddie. Based on an even darker book, join the metropolitan liberal elite as they ...
4. Ecce Romani! (Friends, Romans and Enemies)
18 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
People called Romans they go in the house? It's an episode full of moderate peril as Lovejoy visits the Isle of Man (which is NOT in England, it turns...
3. Pomegranate of Potash (The Sting)
04 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Is there a train station in Lavenham? We enjoy a romp around the UK with Lovejoy et al as we learn when yellow was invented, who created the Hard Rock...
2.Cab Sauv & KFC (The Axeman Cometh)
22 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lovejoy is in demand! He decamps away to a houseboat in London whilst trying to offload a snazzy bit of headwear. We dust off our schoolgirl French, d...
1.Booze On A Mop (The Firefly Cage)
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We meet Lovejoy (never Mister) and his gang for the first time, including Lovely Eric and a rather green looking Tinker.The original Lovejoy episode w...