#476 - Explicit Cakes, Sewer Coffee and A Sexual Holiday to Cardigan

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Having conquered the earthly plane, Elis and John are taking to the skies. Can they become the first podcast to be recorded entirely in space? Or will the anecdote well run dry too quickly?

Back down on Earth there’s a debut trip to Birch Services for Johnny JR, Elis is positively giddy after the pair run round the natural sights of Llandudno, and we hear one of the greatest shame-inducing lines in a cracking Shame Well entry.

Oh, and this week’s Made Up Game throws up a result rarely spotted in these parts…

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.6	Your time starts now.
0:07.2	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:09.4	Absolutely right.
0:11.5	So, you might like to know that the BBC makes loads of other podcasts.
0:15.6	Really?
0:16.4	Wow.
0:17.2	Many of them are very funny.
0:19.1	Which I think means...
0:20.3	A hatful of ha-hars. And energy! Even if we do say so ourselves. I agree 100% to that. Find them all on BBC Sounds. Just tell us a joke. Come on. Tell us a joke. Tell us a joke. Come on. Tell us a joke. Just search comedy on BBC Sounds. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in.
0:55.4	I want to talk to you about soft power.
0:59.3	The BBC's already conquered the world, as we know it.
1:02.3	Here are just two examples of things I've been told when abroad.
1:04.5	Oh my God, mate, you work for the BBC.
1:06.3	Have you ever been on call the midwife?
1:08.5	And just this summer in France,
1:11.2	Jumtelmonde la BBC, shelle fantastique.
1:13.9	There are actually three other examples I can think of,
1:16.8	but Dave specifically asked me not to do those voices on air.
1:20.8	So, if the BBC's conquered Earth, what's left?
1:22.9	That's right. Space.
1:25.9	Strictly might have begun again on Saturday,
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