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Elis James and John Robins on Radio X Podcast

BONUS PODCAST - A Robins Amongst The Pigeons Part 1

Elis James and John Robins on Radio X Podcast

Radio X

Comedy

4.93.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2015

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Lucky you, as promised here is a special treat in the form of The Collated A Robins Amongst The Pigeons. Part 2 is coming soon, for now enjoy your entry into the Darkness of Robins. You can check out the whole Elis James & John Robins on XFM show every Saturday morning on XFM from 10am, and spread the word about the podcast. Cheers!

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0:00.0

XXX FM.

0:02.0

Welcome to a bonus edition of the Ellis James and John Robbins podcast.

0:07.0

For our Terms of Use, please visit. I don't know if we have any.

0:12.0

The terms of use, sir, sit back, relax and enjoy.

0:16.0

Yes, please.

0:18.0

So this requires some somewhat of a setup

0:24.0

because regular podcast listeners will know that for many weeks,

0:29.0

630 weeks, I wrote my own autobiography in the style of Tony Blackburn,

0:35.2

in a kind of style that sort of celebrity,

0:39.2

slightly self-aggrandizing celebrity.

0:39.3

Yeah.

0:40.3

This doesn't sound as mad and as self-aggrandizing as you'd think, actually.

0:44.3

Basically, we used to read aloud from Tony Blackburn's autobiography, which is, I think,

0:49.3

I think this is fair to say, the funniest book in the English language.

0:52.3

It's called Pop-Tastic.

0:53.3

You can get it on Amazon for like a penny or something. It's so, it is really worth it. And then John started writing his autobiography, and it's been very popular. And we've had loads of emails and texts and tweet asking for us to release them all as a podcast. And here it is. So, yeah, this is the first part of a two-part of it, I think, probably the first 15 or so chapters.

1:11.9

I do hope you enjoy it.

1:13.2

It was always a highlight of my week, sitting down and writing it and reading it out to Ellis, trying to make the old guy giggle.

1:20.0

Put a bit of a spring in his step.

1:23.0

A shaft of light into the darkness of his... You make it sound like I'm an 80-year-old man in an old people's home

1:28.3

and you're like a 20-year-old volunteer.

1:30.4

You were right, Ellis.

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