The Collings and Herrin Podcasts

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast 140. It's the first time Andrew Collins and Richard Herring have spoken in over 60 months and it would be foolish to deny that there might be co...

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No preamble. Podcast 167 comes exactly 21 weeks after Podcast 166, due to philosophical differences. Here we are again. Same attic, same settee, same hardware, same mugs, same lighting, less clut...

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BONUS! PRETEND PODCASTS! The Tugwell Tape Pt 6: The End Of History. Yes, having regaled you electronically with the entire 6 Music archive with the music taken out, from the end of 2006, through ...

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BONUS! PRETEND PODCASTS! The Tugwell Tape Pt 5: In this penultimate offering from the celestial Graham Tugwell Collins and Herring 6 Music archives, we find Andrew and Richard being invited for t...

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BONUS! PRETEND PODCASTS! The Tugwell Tape Pt 4: The next four vintage 'pretend podcasts' (they weren't podcasts) from Andrew Collins and Richard Herring, coincide with the filming of the latter's...

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BONUS! PRETEND PODCASTS! The Tugwell Tape Pt 3: Bone-us! As if there aren't *enough* podcasts with Richard Herring on, here are the latest Tugwell Tapes, Pt3, ie. music-free recordings of the hal...

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BONUS! PRETEND PODCASTS! The Tugwell Tape Pt 2: three more 'pretend podcasts' from that weird yesteryear-style parallel universe when Andrew had a regular weekend radio show on 6 Music and Richar...

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BONUS PRETEND PODCASTS: THE TUGWELL TAPES Pt 1. Thanks to podcast-counting buccaneer archivist Graham Tugwell, we have unearthed the whole of the Collins and Herring Pretend Podcasts, which weren...

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In Podcast 166, Richard takes sluggish to new levels and Andrew singularly fails to awaken the Kracken of his usually ebullient personality, even when he reveals that Malcolm X wrote a prototype ...

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At last! The Podcast 165 Show! Although we threatened the end the podcast last week, we decided to keep it going for one more week, as Andrew was coming round to Richard's anyway before they went...

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It's Podcast 164, which shall be called Podcast 165, because we can't count. No, it is 164. It is. Because the last one was 163, which is the number that comes before it. The question is: will it...

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In podcast 163, we start free-forming and spitballing Richard's next Edinburgh show, What Is Love Anyway?, by having a shouting match about whether Prince Charles fancies Camilla Parker-Bowles, h...

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Due to a superinjunction, Podcast 162 contains nothing. Except a bit about Pippa Middleton's bum. And Stewart Lee's Teflon coating. And the superinjunctions. And Bin Laden's pants. And that's it....

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Yes! (That's: YES!) First with all the big news stories, we devote the whole of Podcast 161 to - SPOILER ALERT! - the news that a man has been killed in another country who may or may not have be...

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Another one from the tank! In our tireless quest to keep you all topped up at all times until we are all dead, we present another pre-record, Podcast 160 - a very unhelpful score in darts - in wh...

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Another from the tank again this week, Podcast 159 was recorded two weeks ago, and is, as is now traditional, based upon your questions posed via the miracle of Twitter. Such as: what object woul...

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Be gentle with us: this is only the second time we have recorded a podcast - Podcast 158 - using the new Toscom DR-10000000 digital recorder, whose HD sound quality was so good last time that aud...

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A new dawn for the Collings and Herrin podcast: 157 has been recorded on a Tascam DR-100 portable digital recorder, which Richard bought online in the middle of the night while on tour and which ...

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From the tank where we put all our spare podcasts (it is not really a tank of any kind), we present Podcast 156, which we recorded two weeks ago and is thus built around questions posed on March ...

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Bonus! In the latest of our free, Richard-is-on-tour, back-up, pre-recorded podcasts from the past for the future, we reach 155, a non-topical game of two halves. In the first half, we have a chi...

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Richard's back! For one day only! So we present a brand new, topical podcast, Number 154 (numbered after the excellent 1979 album by the post-punk group Wire, one of Richard's favourites). Rather...

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While Richard is away on tour, braving the threats and prayers of Christians who've seen his poster, we present a special, non-topical, 'pre-recorded' Podcast 153, based upon the one-word themes ...

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Will Andrew get through the whole of Podcast 152, recorded the night after the Oscars, without finding out who won? He is attempting, Likely Lads style, to avoid the results all day so that he ca...

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In Podcast 151, fuelled in Richard's case by a variety of different caffeine sources, we celebrate the Royal Engagement Gold Plated Photographic Coin, available for 39.99 plus 3.99 postage and pa...

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Richard's back from Maldives International with some colour in his cheeks, a whiff of seafood curry about his pores and some exciting seabird knowledge, Andrew's back from Braintree Freeport rail...

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Even though Richard is still in the Maldives, or an adjacent morgue, wearing a Sombrero or whatever people wear in the Maldives, here is another bonus podcast, this time with an historic and even...

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Bonus! Even though Richard is drinking a pina collada in the Maldives with his imaginary girlfriend, or lying dead in the sea if his plane went down, we bring you Podcast 149, which was recorded ...

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Recorded in a carefully constructed television set designed to look like the post-apocalyptic attic flat of a sad, lonely old man who collects electronic equipment, Podcast 148 - the closest you'...

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Phew! Having almost broken both this podcast and the 6 Music show since last week, we finally start to mend things. Richard suggests introducing a 'safe word' to our sado-masochistic faux-marriag...

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In this, our 146th podcast, we emerge from an aborted first go, which descended into over-caffeinated shouting, but we kissed and made up, Andrew had a boiled egg, and we started anew. (You would...

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Our first podcast of 2011 finds us in a reflective but ultimately positive and upbeat mood, filled with hope and good cheer for the new year and all the challenges and opportunities for change an...

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It wasn't supposed to happen, but it did, like a last little burst of Christmas fairy magic: Podcast 144, recorded on the eve of New Year's Eve 2010. It's a very special kind of Review Of The Yea...

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In a tradition that now stretches back to 2008, we join festive forces with the heavily bearded Messrs Phill Jupitus and Phil Wilding for a Festive 12: that is, an overmanned Christmas edition of...

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In Podcast 143, or Podcast 202 according to the Tugwell Scale, or Podcast 203 depending on whether you include the most recent 6 Music podcast which actually became available while we were record...

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Is it Podcast 142, or is it, according to rogue podcast counter Graham Tugwell, Podcast 200? It's Podcast 142, although it may well be our 200th podcast, if you include 6 Music podcasts and other...

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In Podcast 141, we face death, in the face, and not just Bernard Matthews'. Not to mention the extortionate costs of hiring a people-carrier with a ridiculous name that most people would be too e...

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In Podcast 140, or 192 if you're counting, probably, and somebody is, inaccurately, we celebrate the forthcoming Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton by recreating their now iconic ...

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In a burglarious return to Richard's attic after an extended period of podcasting in theatres, Masonic lodges, BBC studios and VW Golfs, Number 139 has a lot to process: the last ever ridiculousl...

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God save the Queen! From the unusual, slightly spooky and arcane, Da Vinci Code-style environs of the Masonic Hall in Cardiff, we present live podcast 138, which was also filmed, by Chris Evans N...

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Collings and Herrin Podcast 137, belated, comes from the Bristol Old Vic Jam festival. Recorded in front of a patient and helpful audience at the Studio, not the main theatre, because we were 'in...

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A surprise, unbilled, bonus, you-lucky-people podcast 136, recorded once again in the soundproof booth at 6 Music, once again with the red light on the wall mysteriously coming on halfway through...

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In Podcast 135, recorded live at London's Bloomsbury Theatre, we began the show with an almost empty front row, which, after the interval, filled out a little bit, giving us some purchase on the ...

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As if a week has passed, which it hasn't, since Podcast 133, here's another one, mostly devoted to Michael McInytre, but not in the way you think. In fact, in order to save up all the Opik-style ...

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In Collings and Herrin Podcast 133, recorded in a professional BBC studio at 6 Music, but not on it, after our Saturday morning show, is a curious affair, moving inexorably between the Pope, Kenn...

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Refreshed after a two-week break, we reconvene, reunite, restore, restart ... sorry, we have become obsessed with the Times cryptic crossword, and everything now feels like a clue ... back in Ric...

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LOST PODCAST 123 UNLOST - WARNING AUDIOPHILES: quality is useless. For completists only. A fuzzy bootleg of the legendary lost Collings and Herrin podcast has suddenly come to light. What kind of...

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Edinburgh Extra! Andrew is in London, but that doesn't stop Richard pumping out another podcast. This one is a recording of him reading from and discussing his book, 'How Not To Grow Up' at Word ...

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In the final live Collings and Herrin Podcast from the GRV in Edinburgh, we go out in a significant lack of style. We should have ended it after 130, but no, it was almost as if we were committed...

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Family entertainment is the order of the day for live podcast 130, live from the GRV in Edinburgh, where David Milliband's banana is gazed upon with wonder and confusion. Richard Herrin was eclip...

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A mood of niceness prevails over Podcast 129, seventh out of ten live shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, except for the bits about golden showers, which means 'playful' Richard is full of compliments...

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With podcast 128, recorded live at the GRV in Edinburgh in front of a mute and frightened audience, we attempt to bring the whole enterprise crashing down around our ears, in an elaborate and mor...

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We're back for the second of the two five-day batches of Collings and Herrin live podcasts from the GRV in Edinburgh, and what a return! Not only is Richard knackered after the excesses of produc...

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In the fifth of our live Edinburgh podcasts - podcast 126 - we recreate, in full, an entire episode of the American sitcom Friends. We also solve the blue towel mystery, improve Anglo-Australian ...

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In the fourth Live Collings and Herring Podcast from the GRV at the Edinburgh Fringe, Podcast 125, we are still trying to process the loss of Podcast 123, which leapt, like Scrappy the dog, from ...

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The lights are back on! After the mythical Podcast 123, which may never have existed in the first place, we are back at the GRV in Edinburgh and undefeated by either electricity or electrical app...

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APOLOGY: Unless you were among the 80 or so quiet and judgmental people who attended the live recording of Podcast 123 - numerically historic - you will not be able to experience it in your ears....

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In the first of ten live podcasts recorded at the GRV at the Edinburgh Fringe (but still officially number 122), we set the scene for our tenure in the land of the incomprehensible town name: the...

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In number 121, our last podcast before Edinburgh - so a week off next week! - we catch up with the Russian parasailing donkey, come up with a porn name for Toy Story 3, create a Utopian vision of...

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Back! Back! Back! Yes! It's the Collings and Herrin Reunion Podcast, number 120, featuring Andrew Collins and Richard Herring in the same room, sharing air and surfaces in complete viral safety. ...

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A unique podcasting experiment! Because Andrew was too scared to go to Richard's house, which he believes to be rampant with the norovirus on every surface, they decided to record this week's pod...

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Yes, in a partial tribute to those idiots in moustaches, we present Podcast 118, which will not help you find a phone number, but will tread a fine line between sincerity and insincerity, artific...

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In Collings and Herrin Podcast 117, recorded in the heat of the middle of the day with salty tidemarks forming everywhere - fortunately not pictured, as BT have decided to turn back time in Richa...

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In Collings and Herrin Podcast 116, we intended to kick it old skool and talk about what was in the newspapers, but got somewhat sidetracked by some old Edinburgh Fringe brochures from 1989, 1993...

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In Collings and Herrin Podcast 115, we cast aside the news - mainly because we only have the literally worthless newspaper the London Evening Standard at our disposal - and instead discuss Englan...

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Psssst! Want some non-brand-name print cartridges? On Collings and Herrin Podcast 114, as well as discuss gun control, fox control, Angelina Jolie's needy emails, the new, more literal Friday The...

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In what could be the last ever Collings and Herrin podcast, unlucky number 113, Andrew and Richard try to process certain 'issues' that threaten to bring their relationship to an untimely and fic...

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In our 112th podcast overall, and the fifth podcast an almost-spent Richard has recorded in six days, we almost exhaustively ignore the newspapers and instead discuss the historical accuracy of R...

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In the post-Sonys podcast, which is number 111, we try to squeeze one last extra drop of observational humour from a man who is currently doing three podcasts a week - and, after he's appeared on...

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In this special pre-Sony Awards podcast, number 110, we actually get dressed into our monkey suits as we prepare to attend the 'radio Oscars' in London's actually-real Mayfair. Uniquely, the podc...

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You decide! In what is the Collings and Herrin Election Week Podcast Debate Special, we provide balanced, fair and impartial coverage of the Gillian Duffy affair (which one of us missed because h...

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Surprise! Here is Collings and Herrin Podcast 108, without warning. We apologise, because it is one hour, 13 minutes and 50 seconds long, because we recorded it on Richard's new laptop and for so...

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In our 107th podcast, we weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of NHS versus private healthcare in terms of service, waiting time, cost at point of delivery, bedside manner, general machinery...

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Armed with a brand new, Marvin's-head-style external microphone that actually seems to work and a pot of actually quite disgusting Jelly Beans, we selflessly produce an audiophile-friendly Collin...

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Yes, we recorded an extra Collings and Herrin Podcast last Tuesday, because we love you. And we can't remember what we talked about on it. So it will be very exciting, for both you and us. Just l...

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We're back, after seven weeks of neglect, in the attic, for an old-school, EXPLICIT, rambling, music-free, plug-packed, topical Collings and Herrin podcast, in which we catch up with all those wh...

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Yes. Even though Richard is away on tour, we have recorded a special, non-topical, Twitter-request podcast to tide you over, with subject matter chosen by you. It is Collings and Herrin Podcast 1...

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Apologies for the picture, which is actually a very funny satire on the fact that Ashley Cole seems to have no pubic hair in the picture he texted to a lady. In Collings and Herrin Podcast 102, w...

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Ha! Fooled you! Even though we hinted that there would be no more Collings and Herrin Podcasts because we are now too famous and successful and rich and on the BBC and everything, we were lying. ...

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Join the fun for our 100th (no, really) podcast, live at the Leicester Square Theatre in London's glittering West End, recorded two years to the day after the very first one in Richard's living r...

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In our 99th podcast - no, really, it is - we try an experiment: the first ever serious Collings and Herrin Podcast. Well, not completely, but we did feel it was time to debate the big issues that...

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Our first ever live podcast in Wales gets the special number of Wales 1, so that, in two weeks' time, the live podcast in London can be honestly numbered Podcast 100, but also because Wales is of...

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So, Richard is back from Mauritius, jet-lagged, with a small put poignant avian gift for Andrew and the rich tan of a vain Giorgio Armani footballer. Having been apart for two weeks, during which...

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Even though Rich is on holiday and Andrew is at work on the radio, we present a special 97th Podcast Review Of The Decade. Using only the Guardian's Icons Of The Decade supplement as a guide, we ...

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In our 96th podcast, one of us has lost his voice over Christmas and is mainlining throat sweets, while the other seemingly hasn't and isn't. There is an air of post-festive indulgence about this...

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In a craven attempt to recapture the ghost of Christmas past, we reunite with the mighty Phill and Phil (Messrs Jupitus and Wilding) in their fancy studio to record another festive pod-off, entit...

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Back to the attic - in a brief but festive West London snowstorm! - for our 95th podcast, with a 25-minute section on bad breath, and most of the rest taken up with dissection of what Peter Kay's...

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Podcast 94 was recorded in front of a near-sellout crowd amid tinsel, prizes and Up-style balloons at the tremendous Duke Of York's Picturehouse, scene of our triumphant first full show in May, a...

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WARNING! NOT AS GOOD AS LAST WEEK'S! In our 93rd podcast, we drift back into mediocrity after last week's unexpected peak of hilarity based upon the writings of a nine-year-old boy. This week, do...

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In a special Antiques Roadshow edition of the Collings and Herrin podcast, Richard sorts through a load of his old shit from the past, including coins, posters, Youth Hosteling badges, railcards,...

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In what could be our last podcast, depending on whether Richard's ravaged, overworked, overfed, overwhelmed body holds out for another week or not after what transpires to be a cumulative four so...

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In our 90th podcast, we spend the 45 million we didn't win on the Euromillions lottery, in detail, and devise a variation on the two-minute silence if Richard was in charge. We also prune Andrew'...

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As Richard stares unemployment in the face and Andrew realises his broken earphones have led to a fleeting feeling of punk rock cool on a train, our 89th podcast soldiers on, featuring a whole lo...

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As it occurs to us, in the 88th Collings and Herrin podcast, we present an exclusive tribute to Peggy Mitchell, who is to leave EastEnders after 15 years, consider Malcolm MacDonald's nightmare v...

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In our 87th podcast we are part of the news but don't even know it, as helicopters buzz over Shepherd's Bush to monitor the protests against Nick Griffin on the night of his historic Question Tim...

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The 86th Collings and Herrin Podcast was recorded at the Three and Ten pub in Brighton before a packed audience of around 50 people, many of who probably wished they had sat further back. Despite...

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In our 85th podcast, we tread a fine line between undermining Richard's new, breakaway, sketch-based podcast, As It Occurs To Me, by accidentally previewing material in advance, and undermining o...

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In our latest live podcast, recorded in front of a broad-minded audience old enough to remember Panini sticker albums in the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre (or LPAC), in Lincoln, in Lincolnshire,...

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In a first for our podcast - if not a first for that one Robert Llewellyn does, but we're not in competition with him - we present our first ever on-the-road podcast, recorded in Richard's car on...

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Our 82nd podcast comes in the form of a Dan Brown-style mystery - we call it The Da Versity Code. What governmental/church conspiracy is afoot? At around 52 minutes into the podcast, a perfectly ...

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In this, our 81st podcast, we attempt the impossible: to make it even better than last week's. Along the way, we discuss popular boys' names, the etiquette of going along to see Calendar Girls on...

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After Saturday's 'dummy' podcast (and we must have been dummies to actually release it), today's can rejoin the numbering system and call itself Colling and Herrin Podcast 80. We haven't split up...

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WARNING: may cause drowsiness. In this special, uncalled-for, extra, bonus, rubbish stopgap podcast, recorded in Andrew's hotel room against our better judgement, we allow tiredness and Fringe-fa...

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In the fifth and final of our live, daily podcasts from the Underbelly in Edinburgh, we had our first almost lethally hot one, with sweat dripping down the walls of the Belly Laugh almost as if s...

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In the fourth of our live, daily podcasts from the Underbelly in Edinburgh, we reach a new level of surreal whimsy and timewasting as the enormity of the task really starts to sink in. But what a...

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In the third of our live, daily podcasts from the Underbelly in Edinburgh, we attempt to build bridges with our audience by testing their memory of key cultural signifiers (well, one bloke in the...

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In the second of our live, daily podcasts from the Underbelly in Edinburgh, we find out how many A-Levels our audience have got, discuss Scottish nationalism in relation to the Australian soap op...

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In the first of our five live daily podcasts from the Underbelly at the Edinburgh Fringe, we test the moistness of our audience and have them eating out of our hands, discussing the 'swoop' on Ke...

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Our 74th podcast is dedicated to Tina Wiseman, who sadly died last week, and was a great supporter of our work and an example to all comedy fans. We have been assured by her family and friends th...

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In Podcast Number 73, we pay tribute to Sandi Toksvig, Neil Buchanan and Andrea Arnold as our weekly bulletin from the frontline of current affairs and cysts reaches the same number as their fict...

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This extra, bonus, doesn't-really-count Collings and Herrin Podcast 72a is actually an exclusive, free chapter from Andrew's new audiobook 'Where Did It All Go Right?', exclusively and supportive...

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In our 72nd podcast, there is tension in the air, as Richard's cyst continues to grow like a David Cronenberg-style alien on his Bob Hoskins-style back, threatening at any moment to explode and f...

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We devote most of our 71st podcast to the story of Richard's iPhone being snatched in West London by an opportunistic tearaway and smooth criminal with brilliant cycling skills and the desire to ...

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In this special Michael Jackson memorial podcast, we talk about the life of Michael Jackson, the death of Michael Jackson, the voice of Michael Jackson, the legend of Michael Jackson, the respons...

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In our 69th!!!LOL podcast, we lament the locking down of not just our own Wikipedia entries, but also Duncan Norvelle's, while discussing in great detail the political leanings of new Speaker, Jo...

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In our 68th podcast, Andrew has come hotfoot from reviewing the newspapers on Nick Ferrari's breakfast show on London's LBC, a non-stop commercial talk station ('London's Big Conversation'), and ...

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In our 67th podcast, sponsored by the Rhythm Festival (Aug 21-23) - for every weekend ticket they sell, our chosen charities Scope and Thomas's Fund get a donation each - which we discuss the ele...

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In our 666th podcast, a 'small gift from London', we bring you breaking news of the latest Cabinet resignations which will inevitably be out of date by the time you hear them, but then again, it'...

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This extra, 10-minute podcast is Andrew's fabled Mitford Sisters routine, recorded at the Duke Of York's Picturehouse on Thursday while Richard was safely backstage. In it, Andrew discusses all s...

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In this special live podcast from the Duke Of York's Picturehouse in sunny, bohemian Brighton, we play up to the paying audience of 250 people a bit, admittedly, but still manage to cover Susan B...

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In our 64th podcast, sponsored by the Absolut Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, even though it's finished, we discuss the miracle, or not, of human evolution, and the fact that we are all descended fr...

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In the transparent 63rd podcast, we declare every penny of our expenses, including both fingers of a Twix, while discussing infinity, morality, hypocrisy, prejudice, sexism, racism, homophobia, t...

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In our 62nd podcast, we take just about every ideological position under the sun on such complex issues as Gurkha justice, Nazism, bra size, MPs' expenses, the British position in India, the poss...

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In our 61st pigcast, from the very bottom of the iTunes charts, suffering from the hangover of fame, we present a balanced view of the swine flu pandemic-in-waiting, wonder if the world populatio...

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In this spontaneous podcast, nominally number 60, Andrew Collings and Richard Herrin shamelessly celebrate reaching number 6 in the iTunes podcast charts and overtaking Stephen Fry for at least o...

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In Collings and Herrin Podcast 59, we do something romantic that we've never done before and will never do again (you'll have to listen to find out exactly what). We also correct a heinous miscar...

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In Podcast 58, we celebrate the good fortune of the man sitting next to the Guinness heiress on the plane, ask why the Great British bobby is wearing a balaclava, discuss the entire 43-year histo...

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We would like to make it clear - crisply, refreshingly clear - that Collings and Herrin Podcast 57 is not sponsored by Magners Light Irish Cider, created in the same authentic, time honoured trad...

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In our 56th podcast, we give equal, self-defeatingly critical airtime to both Magners Cider and Oatibix in an effort to confuse our potential sponsors. We pay tribute to the Essex Princess, worry...

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Hey! Collings and Herrin Podcast No. 55 is out of the traps. In it, we sensitively cover the trial of Josef Fritzl, read out some letters to the Sunday Times, squeeze one joke out of Keith Vaz, e...

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In our 54th podcast, one of us is caffeine-free, the other is virtually insensible on the stuff. Ethical and moral discussion moves almost imperceptibly from Prince Charles's detox tincture to th...

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What? A new podcast already? That's real value. In our 53rd podcast, recorded a matter of days after the last one because Richard is on tour or something, powered by homemade biscotti, we find ou...

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In our 52nd podcast, we manage to largely avoid talking about the tragedy-filled news by discussing the legality and morality of secretly taking photos with mobile phones up ladies' skirts, Richa...

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In our 51st podcast, recorded for the first time ever on the professional podcast studio Richard bought and paid for while drunk before Christmas, we allow ourselves to be seduced by the professi...

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In this, our 50th podcast, we celebrate by not using the brand new podcast studio because we can't make it work yet. But in what may be the last ever podcast made using GarageBand - and indeed th...

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Happy birthday to us! We are one year old! That's 51 podcasts over 52 weeks (don't ask), and in our 49th (don't think too hard about it), we try a Twitter experiment, consider where snow comes fr...

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In our 48th podcast, we mainly come up with a new book idea for Dave Gorman which is a surefire winner, but also find time to ponder what happens in the seconds before your death, marvel at Princ...

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In our 47th podcast, subtitled Hubris, we continue to ponder the fate of the Hitler moustache, give away the entire plot of Slumdog Millionaire (which is the feelgood film of the decade), continu...

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In our 46th podcast, we fight off the cold of Richard's house by shouting at the tops of our voices about: how good Adam and Joe are (no, really, they are very, very good, much better than us on ...

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In our first podcast of 2009, Richard tries out his new, chillaxed, non-hectoring, post-Caribbean persona and Andrew becomes a man of rational scientific thought and debunker of non-evidence-base...

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In this pre-recorded New Year's Eve Review Of The Year Looking Back On 2008 Roundup Special, Andrew belatedly gives Richard his Christmas present, which he really likes, and we discuss our most-m...

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In this special one-off Christmas podclash, we join Phill Jupitus and Phil Wilding in their posh studio for The Perfect Twelve: four men and a hat, discussing twelve festive things, including Chr...

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In our 43rd podcast, the pre-Christmas special, we experiment with two pints of lager/stout and some noodles and coffee, to see what happens. Scientists can study the results, as we discuss, in a...

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In our 42nd podcast, we ignore the news for the first 27 minutes while we talk about very little, but when we do finally acknowledge the outside world and the events therein, it's Lisa Snowden's ...

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In our 41st podcast, we discuss our new lookalike service (pictured), secret dancing, Santa Claus being 'f----ing dead', the intelligence of sperm, the stupidity of people who eat fast food, the ...

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In our 40th podcast, we say hello to all our female listeners, by name, individually, because we can; we also discuss foreplay in the Czech Republic; the loss of the old-fashioned, star-studded W...

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In our 39th podcast, we dream of the pre-prepared lunches which are ready for us to eat afterwards: for Richard, a Marks and Spencer chilli and coriander king prawns; a Marks and Spencer nutritio...

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In our 38th podcast - 39th if you include last week's, 37a - we get back to basics and talk about what's in the newspapers, once we've established more logistical faults with Goodnight Sweetheart...

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In this extra bonus podcast, we do a presentation to the Radio Academy at Millbank in London, which is intended as an introduction to how we started the podcast, and why we do it, week in, week o...

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In our historic 37th podcast, we HAVE A LAUGH about the new world we now live in, including: Morrisons' half-price beef offer, Gary Sparrow's paucity of ambition, the chances of Ed Milliband's pi...

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In our 36th podcast, we are the first to comment on the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross controversy, a subject thus far pretty much ignored by the rest of the media. There's just time for us to talk ...

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In the 35th Collings and Herrin Podcast, Richard turns over a new leaf and promises not to swear or be crude or call Andrew an idiot or talk about having sex with the hole in the bottom of a tort...

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The 34th Collings and Herrin Podcast covers the following hot news topics: the way the credit crunch is affecting Prince William, the new indecent exposure laws soon to rock the world of indecent...

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In our 33rd podcast, we cut a languid, mid-afternoon swathe through Alistair Darling's �500bn TV-screen bailout, the nude twit on the wall of the Japanese emperor's palace, Polly the tortoise i...

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In our 32nd, unedited podcast, back in the teetotal, audience-free safety of Richard's attic (except at night), we solve the credit crunch, dream of a utopian future where there is no racism, ber...

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In this, our second ever live podcast, recorded before a live audience in the Cross Kings pub in London's Kings Cross, at at benefit gig for No Sweat, we attempt to discuss the departure of Ruth ...

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We are 30. In our thirtieth podcast, we ignore the global financial crisis and concentrate instead on Shepton Mallet, Strictly Come Dancing, the ongoing battle between swan and mink, future queen...

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This week, in our post-end-of-the-world podcast, we explain what those men in Geneva were actually trying to achieve, congratulate The Media for continuing to mislead us and do no work, catch up ...

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Hello. In this twenty-eighth edition of The Moral Maze, we debate such burning issues Sarah Palin's surname, the likelihood of political prisoners being released due to the sight of Richard in co...

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We return to podcasting after two weeks and one day to discuss such burning issues as whether Gary Glitter should be 'tagged', whether David Beckham was paid to kick that ball off a bus at the Ol...

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In this, our slightly tired twenty-sixth podcast, recorded last week in Richard's rented flat in Edinburgh, we offer up Jon Gaunt's autobiography Undaunted to the book club, pay tribute to Privat...

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In this historic podcast, recorded live in front of a committed, rain-sodden, early-morning weekday Fringe audience at the Underbelly in Edinburgh, we go through the Scottish versions of the dail...

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In this twenty-fourth podcast, Richard is in Edinburgh and Andrew is in London, but miraculously, they have made a podcast anyway. In it, rather than get worked up about topical matters, they dis...

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In our twenty-third podcast, in light of Radovan Karadzic's arrest for being an acupuncturist, we discuss the amazing disguise possibilities of growing a beard, Christian Bale getting bail, the k...

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In our 22nd podcast, we bring perhaps the most important news story of the year to wider notice, unfathomably buried at the bottom of Page 6 in this week's Sun, and ignored by all the other paper...

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In our twenty-first podcast, two days early this week, we discuss corn-stuffed caviar, kelp-flavoured cold Kyoto beef shabu-shabu, hairy crab 'Kegani' bisque soup, salt-grilled bighand thornyhead...

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In the relaunched podcast, which is very different to the others, we discuss theology, Nazism, Communism, homosexuality, transexualism, hypocrisy, the ageing process, the importance of context in...

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In our nineteenth podcast, we ponder our big relaunch with a brainstorming session that unequivocally rules out the possibility of a Vernon Troyer-style sex tape scandal; we also say happy one-ye...

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In our eighteenth podcast, we look closely at David Beckham's pants, discuss the sexism of Ascot coverage, come up with a recession-beating way of saving money on stamps in Taiwan, calculate wher...

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In our seventeenth podcast, we wish Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin the very best, rail against the Stop and Search policy of the Metropolitan Police because it mainly singles out Andrew, inve...

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In our sixteenth podcast, not by any stretch either of our finest work, unrehearsed, we discuss the Big Brother hopefuls whilst trying not to learn their names, the subtext of Planet Of The Apes,...

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In our 15th nervous breakdown, we cover such burning issues as the Universal Studios Disaster, mini-socks, gym etiquette, Fern Britton's 'diet fib', Britain's Got Talent and 'a delicious explosio...

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In our fourteenth podcast, we try to put Lion Man behind us, and investigate the ins and outs of zoophilia, plus Crewe and Nantwich, the need for fathers, what to really do if you feel chest pain...

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Will out thirteenth podcast be unlucky? Yes, if you don't want to hear Andrew talking about Lion Man, but no, if you want to hear Richard trying to talk about pandas' hands and why Cherie Blair h...

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In our twelfth podcast, we defend Ant and Dec, defend Hitler, share our memories of being in the Bullingdon club and find out what we were both doing on May 5, 1982 by using our diaries. Don't tu...

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In our eleventh podcast, recorded during the knife-edge count in the London mayoral elections, we discuss both the 'bloodbath' and the 'meltdown' for Labour, while sparing a thought for fascist I...

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In our tenth anniversary podcast, we wonder how sensational Alan Levy's memoir is going to get on Tuesday, what makes Austrians put people in cellars, why on earth would Trinny and Susannah go na...

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In our ninth podcast, we put the world to rights, albeit mainly the world of Gordon Brown's body language to the wronged Hillary Clinton, a BEFORE and AFTER spam email that we suspect is not whol...

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Even though Richard is on holiday, the podcast continues! We talk about Ed Balls and the human-cow hybrid and whether it's acceptable to talk about owls after a September 11th-style tragedy, and ...

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In our seventh podcast, Richard eats a gluten-free biscuit and threatens bran-related odours, and we cover everything from Robert Mugabe and Gary Rhodes to Nick Clegg and Britannia (boo hoo, she'...

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This week, in either our second (or third) weekly podcast, we join the nation in Carla Bruni Mania, ask why the Sun won't publish the harmless slang word "nosh" and examine our own personas withi...

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In our fifth podcast, a Good Friday Special, we cover everything from our arch-rivals the Nuts Podcast, the paedo who landed, the sad death of Captain Birdseye and the sad split of Kym and Jack R...

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Our fourth podcast covers everything from the Budget, the Cheltenham Gold Cup, old mens' noses and wheat to the McCartney divorce settlement and the big question: whether we should do our podcast...

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This week, in our third podcast, we are forced to discuss Prince Harry in Afghanistan as it's the only story in all the newspapers. Plus, capital punishment, Paris Hilton's kitten, Lemsip Max and...

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This is our second podcast. It covers everything from feral thugs and Katie Price to the Beijing Olympics (well, not literally everything, obviously). Younger listeners should be aware that 40 mi...

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In this first podcast, recorded with the in-built mic on Richard's laptop because our expensive microphones didn't work, we cover David Beckham, Britney Spears, the Woolworth's Lolita range of ch...

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