#492 - Transit Guffs, Ania Magliano and Mr Big Boggle

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

As John returns from yet another triumphant, nay groundbreaking eye-climbing tour of the Alps, there are a few questions on everybody’s lips: What records did he break this time? Was he able to stick to the confusing speed limits of Swiss roads? And more importantly, what would the future of the BBC look like under the tutelage of the great eye-climber himself, Johnny JR?

Wins are totted up, losses are struck off, and a new future for the BBC is hammered out. Watch out prime-time TV, Wordle is coming for you.

A major player in the new BBC will be Ania Magliano, who stops by to get pelters about her boggle gameplay. In the vein of all good guests she comes bearing gifts; a cracking Made Up Game that gets the boys’ brains and feet working.

Send in your suggestions for a BBC backed by its youngest broadcaster John Robins to [email protected], or WhatsApp 07974 293 022.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.5	This winter, cricket's oldest rivalry is reignited.
0:15.0	England and Australia do battle to compete for the ashes.
0:20.8	That is extraordinary.
0:23.1	Hear live ball by ball commentary on Fife Sports Extra.
0:27.4	And get analysis and reaction of every day's play with the Test Match Special podcast.
0:32.9	The Stamps out of the ground.
0:34.4	Test match special at the Ashes.
0:37.3	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:59.7	Hello everyone, John Robbins here.
1:04.4	I've recently returned from my most ambitious eye-climing expedition yet.
1:08.0	A trip that saw some peaks previously deemed unscalable,
1:12.6	conquered with a dedication to focus, iris manoeuvrance and lashmanship,
1:17.7	that left the European eye-climing community scrambling round to rewrite the retina rulebook.
1:23.5	My trip was cut short, however, before I could complete the hallowed century of horns,
1:27.5	having scaled with ease 80 of the most suggestive sounding horns,
1:29.5	"'including Grosse Bigger Horn,
1:33.1	"'Laidbach horn, and the Morgan Horn,
1:38.2	"'I near the summit of my 81st horn, the Breitzer Rot Horn,
1:40.8	"'when a call from my satellite phone came in.
1:46.8	"'I can't speak. I'm within 200 metres of the summit of one of the great horns.
1:47.9	This has to wait.
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