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Elis James and John Robins

#319 - Baddies on the Beach, 5 Live At 30 and Thank God for Zabaleta

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

5 Live is 30 Years Old. A milestone indeed but it makes the station even more criminally young than our presenters. So Elis and John celebrate by looking back at the history of the UK's favourite (and potentially only) dedicated news and sport station.

We also chat to an adamantly Dave-shunning David, and John, much to everyone's shock, pokes holes in a Made Up Game... which was created by an 11-year-old.

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0:00.0

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

0:05.2

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

0:10.2

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.

0:13.0

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

0:18.0

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

0:22.0

But you know I also know that comedy is really

0:24.4

subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer

0:29.6

from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you

0:36.2

fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.

0:40.3

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Hello there, welcome to the Ellis and John podcast. The first two comedians ever to prove it

1:08.6

actually is possible to be hench and kind. Now the Ellis and John show has always been about positivity aside from John and his

1:20.0

contributions. This is only going to become more a part of our brand now that the show has changed format.

1:26.7

According to producer Dave, the best thing about this program becoming a podcast first piece of content rather than radio show is that in

1:34.0

podcast land every day's the weekend yeah because people can listen to it at

1:40.0

the weekend exactly every days a every day's a weekend.

1:43.0

So whether a weekend for you means answering the door to the broke from DPD in a dressing gown

1:46.8

that's covered in dried scrambled egg or a trip to a theme park with your stepbrother who you suspect

1:51.4

you hate, we have all the bases covered.

1:54.9

What's great about living in a permanent weekend like we do on this show is that the

1:58.8

fun never stops.

2:01.0

Not for one second.

2:02.0

Not for one second, Not for one second because contrary to an opinion piece I read in a

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