#468 - Noble John, Sugar Me Twice and Good Old Gent

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The ripples of last week’s Elis James mega-rant are still being felt right across the BBC, and despite vowing to ignore the call to pen John’s obituary, Elis has rowed back and done just that. Brace yourself for some emotional heft and candid commentary on John’s propensity for darts at university.

But John’s made of sterner stuff these days and recovered to reveal the sighting of a certain car has left him shocked to his very core. Elis and Dave, on the other hand, don’t seem that bothered…

Elsewhere there’s some classic ‘what would you do with loads of money’ chat that somehow leads to a conversation about Liam Gallagher’s coat collection, and a geography-based Made Up Game hits the mark with very little knowledge needed of the Falkland / Faroe Islands.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:26.1	Hello and welcome to the Ellis James and John Robin show.
0:30.1	Politicians often have a strange relationship with apologies,
0:32.9	but this isn't the cut and thrust of Westminster.
0:35.4	This is the more considered world of audio.
0:40.0	Listeners, I was wrong last week.
0:42.5	Mayor Culper, I apologise.
0:45.4	During the high tension of Cumbry connection and during the upset and anger that can only come
0:47.8	when a man called Kevin from Llanition in Cardiff
0:50.0	doesn't know Mike Bubbins,
0:51.7	I snapped at John.
0:56.5	I asked him to walk into the sea, drown,
1:01.1	and not only did I promise never to look for his body. I said that I'd refuse to write his obituary, claiming to think the Guardian were asking me to write an orbit for John the Baptist
1:04.8	than I wasn't a Christian. I snapped at John and he is my number one.
1:13.7	Even though he's in rude health,
1:16.9	I've decided to make amends for my unprofessional outburst by writing John's obituary.
1:19.1	That's nice.
1:22.3	A stand-up comedian, broadcaster, an e-cigarette campaigner,
1:25.3	John Robbins.
1:29.5	First born in Thornbury, 1982,
1:32.7	and the small Gloucestershire town found it impossible to contain British comedy's most fertile
1:37.7	creative mind. After making his theatrical directorial debut as a precocious ex-pupil at
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