Geoff Norcott's Working Men's Club

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BBC

Comedy

4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Geoff Norcott examines modern masculinity in this stand-up series for Radio 4, by creating the safe space of a working men’s club so he can speak freely about the problems men are facing and how we might go about fixing them in a way that benefits everyone.

This week, Geoff looks at men’s reluctance to put on sunscreen. Why not take a simple, basic precaution against the hottest and largest thing in the entire solar system? Vanity? Bravado? Or something else? With the help of his studio audience, Geoff looks at whether this is connected to men’s reluctance to seek medical advice and their habit of dying early.

Written and presented by Geoff Norcott

Recorded by Richard Biddulph

Production manager: Sarah Wright Executive producer: Caroline Raphael Producer: Ed Morrish

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	Calling all music buffs.
0:03.6	Hey, hey, turn the volume up, yeah?
0:05.0	Make me a mixtape is here.
0:07.0	I'm Jordan Stevens.
0:08.0	I'm Clara Ampho, and this is our brand new weekly music show.
0:12.0	You pick a theme. We select the tunes and we battle it out to create the ultimate playlist just for you.
0:18.0	May the best music lover win? Oh, it's about to go down. Let's go!
0:22.0	Make me a mix tape. Listen only on BBC Sounds.
0:28.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:34.0	Hello, Jeff Norkot here.
0:38.0	This program is my working man's club.
0:40.0	You know, it's sort of like a safe space to talk about the issues facing modern men.
0:44.0	Just a quick disclaimer, this is a metaphorical working man's club.
0:47.0	Though we do have lots of men, plenty of lager, and we've got a jukebox which only plays tracks by Meat Loaf and Queen.
0:52.8	Just heads up, this is going to be a comedy show, but occasionally we'll be talking about
0:59.5	important stuff up to and including feelings.
1:03.0	So if you are uncomfortable, we have ear plugs
1:07.8	that are playing the TMS commentary of Heddermy,
1:10.1	the 81.
1:12.4	This is the place to discuss proper bloke stuff. But Jeff, isn't that the entire
1:17.6	podcast landscape? Yes there are lots of men talking for many hours in the podcasting world, but what are they really saying?
1:25.0	Podcasts have taught us that if an infinite number of male monkeys were given an infinite number of typewriters,
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