Episode 6
Springleaf
Mighty Bunny Ltd
4.5 • 703 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Having survived his unfortunate interaction with Huey's shotgun, Clarke goes into hiding, while Angela faces the consequences of her unauthorised stint undercover. Pat, Evelyn and Sita wait for an update on the future of their prank show and, over at SW11 HQ, Lawrence and Janet continue to clash as the Leader-Off enters the final stages...
A true(ish) crime podcast, which sees undercover cop Pat Springleaf (James Acaster) share police wire recordings from the biggest case of his career: working to infiltrate and bring to justice the notorious SW6 gang.
Back in 2013, ex-conman-turned-undercover-cop Pat was in the middle of a career-defining undercover gig - but problems beset him on all sides: the gang are getting suspicious; his wife wants a divorce; the police are demanding results; and his ex partner in crime is blackmailing him. Not an ideal situation for someone with a burning need to please absolutely everybody. In 2023, meanwhile, Pat and his producer Adams play clips to studio guests as they unpack the criminal hijinks that launched the career of the man now reasonably widely-known as James Acaster.
Featuring:
Chloe Petts - Nance
Domhnall Gleeson - Lawrence
Ed Gamble - himself
Evelyn Mok - herself
Finn Wolfhard - Serpico
Jason Forbes - Superintendent
Kath Hughes - Detective Adams
Kemah Bob - Donna
Natalie Cassidy - Janet
Nathaniel Metcalfe - Huey
Nish Kumar - himself
Pat Cahill - Reg
Phil Wang - Detective Clarke Burbridge
Rob Beckett - himself
Sharon D Clarke - Police Chief Angela
Sindhu Vee - Sita
with studio guest Josh Widdicombe
Extra jokes by Celya AB, Jen Ives, Ken Cheng, Matthew Crosby, Rose Johnson and Toussaint Douglass
Original Music by NNAMDÏ
Sound design by Charlie Brandon King
Assistant Producers - Katie Sayer and Mikaela Carmichael
Produced by Lyndsay Fenner
A Mighty Bunny Production
www.springleafpodcast.com / www.mightybunny.co.uk
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a springleaf, the only podcast where an undercover copse with the public, |
| 0:06.6 | fake in this image, I'm a cover of my life and I need a clearly defined leader. |
| 0:11.4 | I need a live here. |
| 0:13.2 | I live here. |
| 0:15.3 | The only podcast where an undercover cop shares his wire recordings with the public. |
| 0:21.5 | The newly formed SW-11 gang needed a clearly defined leader. With that in mind, our guest |
| 0:26.6 | this week remains the greatest leader I have ever served under, both on his famed X-FM radio show |
| 0:32.0 | and the hit Dave show, Hypothetical. My TV boss, Josh Whitakum. Tell them what just happened. What happens |
| 0:39.7 | off air, stays off air? He got me to pay his producer for the entire series. Uh, his producer, |
| 0:45.6 | I have a name, pal. You never introduced yourself. You just called me a pipsqueak and told me to pony up. |
| 0:51.0 | I was merely asking one of my superiors to help me out of a financial bind, |
| 0:55.0 | and I'm extremely grateful, Josh. We'll dock it from your hypothetical wages. I'm going to |
| 0:58.8 | buy a binaural microphone, do some holophonic shit. Josh Woodacum, what do you think every good |
| 1:03.9 | leader needs? Rock for a heart, dagger for a tongue, laptop for a brain. Ever been shot? |
| 1:09.3 | What? He got his friend shot in the last episode, then tasered him to Kingdom Come. |
| 1:12.9 | Oh my God. |
| 1:13.9 | Did he, you know, go the way of the Dodo? |
| 1:16.4 | Certainly did. |
| 1:17.4 | No, he survived, Josh. |
| 1:19.2 | But Pat said... |
| 1:20.2 | Pat believes the Dodo faked its own extinction. |
| 1:22.7 | We never saw a body, Adams. |
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