Dotun Adebayo - The Nightwatchman (Part 1)

The Moon Under Water

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4.8 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We’re lucky here at The Moon Under Water in that we don’t have a closing time: we’re open no matter what time of day it is, which means a pint is always available. However, the same can’t be said for all pubs. Most pubs call last orders at around midnight, and for the majority of the population that’s the perfect time to head back home for their night of slumber. But what if you work through the night and finish your shift at 6am? Where do you head for your post-work pint? Well this week’s guest knows that problem all too well. It’s radio presenter, broadcaster and writer Dotun Adebayo.

Dotun presents on BBC 5 Live weekday mornings between 1-5am, but that hasn’t stopped him becoming accustomed to pubs all around the world. He’s an expert on the late-night alehouse scene and all the characters that occupy it, and we’re sure that he’s going to create an incredible Pub of the Mind (I’m sure it’ll be open at reasonable times too).

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0:00.0	O Salt Crescent Moon, Moon of lonely Vespers, moon, moon of absence and vigils,
0:18.4	Surveyor of Milky Midnight Fields, Medieval Moon, Moon of of milky midnight fields, medieval moon, moon of crop and tide, protector of
0:26.9	lookouts, guardian of Menzies, the great white awaiting, waiting, waiting for the moon
0:36.4	underwater.
0:38.3	Music Waiting for the moon underwater. ...were. ...wereau.
0:40.3	...you know. Hello and welcome all. Welcome every single one of you to the correct realm.
1:12.9	This is a realm apart from the other realm, where you'll be listening from.
1:17.6	And within this realm is a pub beyond all knowledge.
1:21.4	A tavern, I guess, surpassing wisdom.
1:26.2	It's the moon underwater, the pub of dreams, where I landlord John Robbins, invite guests
1:32.9	to fill that pub with whatever their heart so desireth.
1:38.2	And with me as ever is my bar swain, my regular at arms.
1:44.0	It's the lovely Robin Allander. And Robin, in the other realm,
1:49.2	it's sort of that period after Christmas where all the holly doth wilt so. How does it find thee?
1:56.6	Yes, it's always a strange time of year, the period between New Year and Christmas, isn't it?
2:02.4	I saw someone tweet that yesterday, I thought that was quite funny.
2:06.9	It is funny.
2:08.1	It is funny.
2:10.1	But no, the period between Christmas and year, always rather strange, isn't it?
2:13.6	How do you feel your time?
2:14.8	You just had some kind of what I can only describe as
2:18.4	breakfast brisketta. Do you want to talk me through that? Yeah, I've just eaten a classic
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