#462 - Burger, Sell Me Your Suitcase and Topless Dave In Front of An Olive

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

John’s been chained to a typewriter diarising his life experiences, and he's so confident about his memoir that he’s written “this is a good book” in Bic on its cover. Something all the great authors do, and he clearly has confidence in his witty emotionally hefty prose.

But anyway, in this chapter of the Elis James and John Robins show we’re whisked to the sunny shores of the Iberian peninsula, because Dave has a Made Up Game that required an entire week of deliberation and a classroom’s worth of children.

Plus, turn another page and you'll find a one off feature which may or may not feature a dulcetly crooned jingle.

Remember you can catch bonus E&J only on BBC Sounds on The Bureau de Change of the Mind. So go and inhale those if you haven’t done so already. (We’re past DI Robbyns nonsense now, so it’s just more of the boys).

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello everyone.
0:23.9	There's a few bleary eyes in the studio today,
0:27.0	as last night it was Five Lives annual sleepover.
0:30.4	A chance for presenters and management to kick back and socialise.
0:34.2	Every year, a different presenter hosts the hijinks.
0:37.3	And yesterday it was Adrian
0:38.6	Charles's turn. His Temside apartment was the perfect setting, and on the minibus from
0:43.7	Broadcasting House, all talk was of what food Charles would be providing. I hope it's egg
0:49.1	sandwiches, said Matt Chorley. Egg sandwiches are my favourite, and Ed Miliband agrees with me.
0:55.0	What's your favourite sandwich, Tony?
0:57.4	I don't bloody no, Matt.
0:59.7	Cheese, said Tony Livese.
1:02.0	He was trying his best to concentrate on the only Fools and Horses DVD
1:05.4	that the driver had put on a small TV.
1:11.1	A screwed up ball of paper hit the back of Chorley's head.
1:15.1	Ow! Who was that?
1:17.3	Nagamanchetti and Rick Edwards looked out of the window with smirks on their faces.
1:21.4	They each had a bag of Mauam stripes and they weren't sharing.
1:25.7	It doesn't matter what the food is, Edward snarled. It's all about
1:30.8	the video. And don't worry, if Charles drops the ball, I've got a little something up my sleeve.
1:37.7	Ellie Aldroyd chimed in. I personally hope he's got some good games. Do you remember last year when
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