#531 - Trauma Shirts, Pavarotti the Hamster and Paula Radcliffe
Elis James and John Robins
Significant Productions
4.8 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Quick hypothetical Q: If you’re running a marathon for the first time (because you’ve realised your bones actually aren’t too heavy to run) and you want to get advice from someone, who do you turn to?
Roger Bannister? Not possible. Forrest Gump? Not possible again. Oh, what about the world class athlete who held the record for the fastest women's marathon for 16 years? What, Paula Radcliffe? Yeah, just a bit mate! Strap in for some gold-plated advice from one of the best to ever do it.
Elsewhere Elis has been Cymru Connecting like there’s no tomorrow. He’s going back to the 60s, he’s getting maiden names confirmed, he’s Derren Browning wedding guests who haven’t even asked for it. Can his midweek connecting help his in-game performance?
Lastly Dave drops the bombshell that he’s got guinea pigs, but don’t worry, he hasn’t got lad ones.
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| 0:00.0 | Attention, Ellis and John apologists, vibe tasters, hammer legends and all PCDs. |
| 0:06.1 | This is a content alert. Here at Ellis and John HQ, we are constantly evolving. |
| 0:11.9 | Like Betamax or minidisc, content that stay still is dead. So, after seven years of terrestrial |
| 0:18.6 | podcast-first BBC broadcasting, Ellis and John is entering the future |
| 0:23.4 | sphere. Why did I let John write this? We're forging a path into a new digital millennium. |
| 0:29.1 | The millennium was 26 years ago. From this day thence, Ellis and John will still be available on BBC |
| 0:34.3 | sounds, but the Ellis and John world is expanding. And as a part of that |
| 0:38.7 | Globo-Splosion... Dave, can he say this? As a part of that Globo-Splosion, if you're not listening |
| 0:44.0 | on BBC Sounds, you will start to hear adverts, some generic, some rift by Ellis and I, as we dip our |
| 0:49.4 | toes into the world of independent content creation. |
| 1:10.2 | ... the world of independent content creation. Thank you for tuning into Ellis and John, and of course, if you were listening last week, |
| 1:14.1 | you will know that we are broadcasting from a digital future. |
| 1:18.0 | Not the kind of future where everyone eats food in pill form. |
| 1:21.0 | It's a strange quirk of bad sci-fi that is authors seems to have forgotten that people in the future will still like chips. |
| 1:27.0 | No, this is a future in which Dave, John and I |
| 1:29.8 | have decided to make additional online visualised content |
| 1:33.1 | for the people who fancy paying FIP |
| 1:34.8 | because, to be honest, a TV commission |
| 1:37.5 | from the BBC is actually been obvious. |
| 1:40.3 | In 2026, did I say it's hack? |
| 1:42.8 | So sorry, Robin Ramesh, becoming an almost TV success is sad. |
| 1:48.5 | However, this news of additional online content that is not replacing the podcast |
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