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Elis James and John Robins

#521 - Subversive Regional, Call Roger Bannister and All At Sea in a Brandscape

Elis James and John Robins

Significant Productions

Comedy

4.86.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

John Robins feels enormous. His Christmas Day, Ryder Cup and Tax Deadline Day have all come at once. That’s right, a new supermarket has opened near his house, and he’s primed and ready to make content that no one else would dream of making. Strap in for some gonzo journalism; it’s Fear and Loathing in Rural Bucks.

Supermarket excitement aside, we tackle the big questions: Did Elizabeth I wish she’d had meal deals? Did she resent not having a fridge, or Tetris, or yoghurt? What would Henry VIII have made of an air fryer?

Plus, Elis’s Welshness gets him in hypothetical hot water.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.

0:05.0

On Wednesday, I woke to my wife Izzy, who appeared even more thoughtful than usual.

0:28.8

I asked her what was wrong, and I received the following reply.

0:32.8

I dreamt you cheated on me last night.

0:35.6

Lumping sleep out of my eyes, I began to reassure her, of course,

0:38.9

but I could see that she was desperate

0:40.2

to tell me more details.

0:42.7

After you told me, I was very upset, Ellis,

0:45.6

but I could only think of one thing to say,

0:48.8

I shouted at you in the kitchen.

0:50.4

Just answer me one question.

0:52.9

This woman.

1:03.8

Is she Welsh? Ha you reply that she was,

1:15.0

I screamed, then you've got to live your dream. This is Rochtus as a family, because I now realise that regardless of age, background, looks of relationship status, as he sees all Welsh women as a threat.

1:19.7

So I got me thinking, I haven't had a Welsh girlfriend for over 20 years.

1:23.5

I haven't had a Welsh speaking girlfriend for a quarter of a century.

1:26.5

How would me living my dream have impacted on world culture? I, of course, would be Brennan Podladyar Kumri, the King of Welsh podcasts, and my sterling work on Roger Cymry, presenting the breakfast afternoon and drive-time shows would have seen me on it as a druid in the Nationalist Thelthod. However, the ultimate distinction would be when I was given a ceremonial sheriff's glove by the mayor of my hometown of Carmarthen, which would allow me to commit white-collar crime between the hours of 9 and 5pm on a weekday as long as the profits were shared with local bishops. But what of Dave in this sliding doors thought experiment? But what if happened to Dave if we'd never met all of those years ago

2:02.9

because I was living in Wales rather than London

2:04.8

and committed to Radio Cunnery as opposed to Radio X?

2:08.2

Dave, of course, would now be producing drive time on Capital Radio Manchester,

2:12.6

getting listeners revved up as they sit in traffic

2:14.9

and constantly energising his audience for the weekend from

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