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Frank Off The Radio: The Frank Skinner Podcast

Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast: Scott McKendry

Frank Off The Radio: The Frank Skinner Podcast

Avalon

Comedy

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Frank joins a secret society with Pebbles Flintstone and the poet, Scott McKendry. The poems referenced are ‘Keepers of the Pedigree’ and ‘Hi-Vis’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.8

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0:19.2

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0:27.2

Hello and welcome to Frank Skinner's poetry podcast.

0:36.0

Regular listeners will know that I spent a very happy time at the

0:41.5

Seamus Heaney Centre.

0:44.0

This is discussed on my Seamus Heaney podcast.

0:48.0

At Queen's University, Belfast, met some fantastic people, one of which was a Irish poet, a Northern Irish poet called Scott McKendry.

0:59.4

On that day, Scott gave me his collection Gob, which is spelled G-U-B, and he signed it, actually, in a comical way.

1:14.7

He began for Dennis the Beast of Bolsover as if he'd mistaken me for Dennis Skinner,

1:21.4

the left-wing Labour MP and then he crossed that out and wrote,

1:29.4

thanks for the laughs, hop the baggies,

1:32.3

which is a bit more bespoke Frank Skinner as far as dedications go.

1:38.8

Anyway, I was thrilled to get the book.

1:40.2

He gave me a badge as well, a gob badge.

1:44.0

He defines Gob, by the way, as a bit like gob would be in

1:48.6

english slang mouth or someone who's very mouty is a bit of a gob or if you hit someone in the mouth you

1:57.3

gobb them yeah so anyway he gave me a copy of gobb and i read it started reading it in my

2:06.7

hotel room that night took it on tour with me doing my stand-up tour and just loved it so i want to share it

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