#525 - Lostalgia, Fornication Nation and Narberth to Nefyn Nude

Elis James and John Robins

Significant Productions

Comedy

4.8 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Elis has come off the back of a midi week but that’s not a problem, because the hive mind has another great TV format to which the networks can say “I love it, so I’m going to say ‘no’.”

‘John’s Thoughts’ arrives much to Elis’s confusion, during which John’s also come up with an emotion that’s more complex than nostalgia. “What is this?” asks the Assistant to a Thought Leader about the feature. We don’t quite know yet but it is certainly a great conduit for chin wagging chat.

And in all of that we’ve got a belting Made Up Game which really plays to the boys’ experience in indie commercial digital radio.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. Mega!
0:25.3	Adjective, slang, extremely good, great or successful, weak, a period of seven successive days.
0:33.6	I've been having mega weeks, but does the last seven days fit the bill? On Friday, I hosted a
0:39.5	fundraising quiz for my kid's school, with my combination of quick wit and ability to read out loud,
0:44.3	questions that have been prepared for me by someone else, it became apparent from round one,
0:49.3	what do you remember about 2025, that the dads wanted to be me and the mum's wanted to be with me. After I asked which solo female British artist had the most top 40 hits in the 1980s, a teacher asked for a quiet word, whispering, you are such an asset. Before pressing a check for £3,000 into my palm. I said, please, no, I really couldn't. And anyway, depositing a check is a real pain. And she said, no, it's fine. You can do it on the app these days. And so I said, actually, yes, I will accept it, then thank you. On Wednesday, the day got off to an in auspicious start, as inspired by Greg James' incredible fundraising activities, I'd dreamt that we tried to find everyone who had ever wronged John before putting them on trial for comicry.
1:33.3	Even though core proceedings had begun and we were broadcasting live from the old Bailey, once five live realized what was happening, we were sacked on air and the the emergency tape of Adrian Childs announced the birth of Prince Louis was played instead.
1:48.7	Once I checked that we hadn't been sacked by sending a confusing text to Dave,
1:52.4	I then accompanied my daughter on a school trip to the cinema to see How to Train Dragon,
1:56.4	a film that disappointed me with its complete lack of any Welsh content.
2:00.6	Thursday night, I was on a mega bill at ABC and Kennington with James Gill,
2:05.1	Cessley Hitchcock, Nish Kumar and Kevin Bridges.
2:08.4	This is Kennington, this means more.
2:11.6	After forgetting a big chunk of material and realising that I still had three minutes to fill,
2:16.3	I was flailing.
2:18.5	I was lost. I was in need of to fill, I was flailing. I was lost.
2:20.5	I was in need of a hero, Dave.
2:23.2	At this point a voice shouted from the bar,
2:25.6	Do your tea towel material.
2:30.1	The tea towel material is 15 years old and a lot has changed since then.
2:33.1	Brexit, Trump, the collapse of the International World Order,
2:34.7	mango vapes and young people wearing big trousers like clowns.
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