#278 - Stage Time Stresses, Dignity Biscuits and A Barrel of Eggs

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Elis and John aren’t on air for a large portion of July, as 5 Live continues to fill its public service broadcasting remit by providing world-beating sports coverage. With their holidays just around the corner (don’t worry, there’ll still be weekly bonus podcasts for you all to enjoy) an air of giddy excitement descended on the studio, with Producer Dave pulling out all the stops to try and tame radio’s most unproducable duo. There was a Made Up Game for the biscuit purists amongst you, a Petty Parliament suggestion that was met with unanimous agreement, there was ANOTHER twist in 'DI Robbyns', and the guys put poor Nick Wallis through his paces during his first ever appearance on the show (sorry Mrs Wallis).

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0:00.0	On Valentine's Day 2004, one of Italy's greatest cyclists was found dead in mysterious circumstances.
0:06.6	Initially, there's growing mystery about the death of one of the country's sporting heroes.
0:10.6	Antani, known as the pirate, because of the yellow bandana he wore around his head.
0:14.8	In November 2021, new evidence had supposedly come to light,
0:19.0	alleging that the Italian mafia were involved in Marco Pantani's death.
0:23.4	Five other top European cyclists have died mysteriously in the last year.
0:27.7	The mafia goes where money is.
0:30.0	Nearly 20 years on, are we any closer to knowing for sure what happened to the pirate?
0:34.8	It's a very dark story, the fantastic story. It's a tragedy.
0:37.9	I'm Hugh Dennis and this is Sports Strangest Crimes, Marco Pantani, Death of a Pirate.
0:43.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:46.8	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:50.0	Hello everyone, welcome to the Ellis James and John Robbins Show podcast.
0:54.5	And for the next three weeks after today, it will just be the Ellis James and John Robbins podcast
1:01.8	because there's no show on Five Live because of I'm guessing Wimbledon.
1:07.3	Wimbledon?
1:08.5	Ashes?
1:09.5	The Open.
1:10.7	The Open? Oh yes, at Hoelay, indeed, where I have played golf, actually.
1:16.5	In on Mercyside.
1:19.1	Yeah.
1:19.9	Oh, what's the course like?
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