#217 - An Irish Odyssey with John Robins: Episode One

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate entering his fifth decade John Robins decided to undertake the trip of a lifetime. He packed up his beloved compact SUV (the make and model of which will definitely become clear) with a bag of golf clubs, a microphone and a sense of adventure and left rural Buckinghamshire for his destination: Ireland. He went in search of answers, but ended up finding something much more important: content. In the first episode of this three part series John makes the long journey up the M6, takes in the beautiful scenery of North Wales (featuring some questionable pronunciation) and prepares to set sail for the Emerald Isle.

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.2	Well everyone, we find our hero at 6.24am behind the wheel of a KS portage.
0:34.3	The plush interior bringing comfort to a body which I'll admit is not quite used to
0:42.3	commuting this early in the day.
0:47.3	But that was what was necessary for me to begin my Irish Odyssey brackets in a KS portage.
0:54.8	But yeah, after failing to successfully pitch the idea to TV stations, including but not
1:02.9	limited to terrestrial, major digital and then minor digital in that order, all of whom turned
1:10.6	it down, I'm creating an audio diary if you will, to enable Ellis and I to fulfill our
1:20.4	contract contractually obliged podcast output.
1:29.2	When I pitch the idea, I didn't pitch the same idea to all TV stations because that's
1:35.2	not what you do.
1:36.2	You have to tailor it to fit the channel of your choice.
1:39.6	So BBC One was John Robbins and Irish Odyssey brackets in a KS portage.
1:47.8	And BBC Two, communing with the eights brackets in a KS portage, ITV One was Island exclamation
1:57.4	mark.
1:58.4	ITV Two was celebrity sportaging with your ex in Ireland.
2:12.4	Total five, top of the morning to you and then various iterations of those four, depending
2:19.9	on the digital station of choice, tried to trick Dave by calling it mock the week two,
2:27.6	but they didn't go for that.
2:29.1	They saw through it as soon as they read the pitch.
2:31.8	But I think that this has confirmed that I would be absolutely incapable of ever presenting
2:39.6	breakfast radio and I think really presenting a radio show that started before 11 am.
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