#381 - Your Main Crem, A Talentless Forsyth and The Great Traybake Swindle

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Bye Bye Mr Audio, Hello Mr Saturday Night! There are rumours that Saturday night TV is dead. That it just doesn't bring in the eyeballs that Bowen, Black and Forsyth once did and the cash well is drying up. But with five kids between them and the prospect of John’s fixed rate mortgage expiring at an unstated date, that’s still enough cash to entice the ever well oiled ideas machine into life.

Whether ‘Mr Saturday Night’ or ‘Dave & Dave’s Sexy Show’ would pull in millions is one question. Another question is easier to answer: would a BBC commissioner dashing their shiny floor dreams LIVE be box office listening? Yes, yes it would.

Aside from dreams of gunge, interviewing pets and the big time there’s some heavy hitting moments: an aurally unique Made Up Game, the Cymru Connection’s own VAR moment and potentially the ultimate Petty Parliament.

It’s all best experienced on the BBC Sounds app where if you tire of this vapid content you can easily switch to the stoicism of Radio 4’s The World At One with the tap of a thumb. You can’t do that on any other app.

If you’re of the post-S-Club generation then 07974 293 022 is the WhatsApp. For anyone older it’s [email protected].

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0:00.0	You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one.
0:06.0	I'm Siddhartha Cesset, an assistant commissioner of Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:11.0	I pull a lot of levers to support a diverse range of
0:13.7	podcasts on all sorts of subjects, relationships, identity, comedy, even one
0:18.9	that mixes poetry, music and inner city life. So one day I'll be helping host develop their ideas, the next
0:26.1	fact checking, a feature and the next looking at how a podcast connects with its
0:31.5	audience and maybe that's you. So if you like this
0:34.6	podcast check out some others on BBC Sounds.
0:39.4	BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. See Sounds, Music, James and John Robbins
1:05.2	podcast, Ellis and John, as it's more commonly known. He's had two hours to think of
1:09.4	that Dave, isn't he just? He's not finished yet? Carry on.
1:13.0	Elis, carry on.
1:14.0	And it's a real shame that John has been on such sparkling form because he's been to the
1:18.6	matter horn, which he climbed with his eyes, i.e. he looked at it.
1:23.0	A little bit more complicated than that, but carry on.
1:26.0	He just looked up and then down again.
1:27.0	Sorry, sorry, when was last time you went to the outside climbing?
1:29.0	Just out of interest?
1:31.0	Uh, 1994.
1:32.0	Well, there you go. Uh, he's come back. He's fresh faced. He's looking good. He's looking lean, he's looking sharp.
1:40.0	He was on good form in the show we recorded for last Friday, but unfortunately he sent a text message with a spelling mistake and now is hence gone.
1:48.0	Yeah, okay, and the other guy was triple dotting so I couldn't edit it in time. So I look a fool. Oh no I would
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