#480 - Hot Trees, Exhaustion Tears and Let It Be Birds

Elis James and John Robins

Significant Productions

Comedy

4.8 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

What’s the best way to round off 39 hours of no sleep? Invite 7 young girls round for your daughter’s birthday sleepover, that’s how! Were there tears? Of course! Did said tears belong to Elis or the kids? Listen to find out.

Elsewhere we’re answering the question, ‘is mid-October too early to be talking about Christmas?’ Not in these parts it ain’t, as Elis makes a startling claim about Irish wishlists and John questions the role Santa played in his childhood festivities.

All this, plus what comes to mind when you think of Brian May, a rollercoaster of a Road to Nowhere, and huge developments in the Cymru Connection’s role in forging Wales’s national identity.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:06.1	Can I just say?
0:07.6	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:10.0	It's such a wonderful listen.
0:11.7	So nice.
0:12.5	There are loads more like it on BBC Sounds.
0:14.8	Different paces, different heights, the roof is buckling.
0:17.9	Where you can also listen to live sports commentary.
0:20.2	It's right foot goes for goal.
0:21.6	Oh!
0:22.7	And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories.
0:27.7	The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.
0:31.2	And she's had to live with that.
0:32.8	So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.
0:35.8	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:37.8	Sort of expecting that every week now.
1:00.8	Jonathan. John and I were waiting outside the Director General's office.
1:04.5	We'd usually be nervous, but all we could hear was laughter.
1:07.6	Peels of laughter and yelps of excitement.
1:10.4	John eventually plucked up the courage to go in. Sorry, boy, said Tim. I'm just
1:12.7	finishing my Christmas list for Santa. I'm so excited. It's made October in your 58, said John.
1:17.9	Won't you just get normal 58-year-old stuff like a soap and a rope of flannel or a book about
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