Jan Ravens - The Open Arms (Part 1)

The Moon Under Water

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Food, Comedy, Arts, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

There’s something very peculiar going on at The Moon Under Water, because as our next guest approaches we’re still not quite sure who it is. We can’t see their face through the mists, but it sounds like it might be Hyacinth Bucket? Wait no, now it sounds like Hillary Clinton? And now it sounds like Theresa May - what the hell is going on?!

Ah, now it makes sense. As they step out of the mist and through the doors of everyone’s favourite mystical alehouse our guest this week reveals themselves… it’s impressionist and actress Jan Ravens!

Throughout her career Jan has appeared in a wide range of shows, including Dead Ringers, Have I Got News For You, Spitting Image and even Strictly Come Dancing. She’s also been lucky enough to appear in a wide range of pubs, having grown up on The Wirral, studied in Cambridge and worked up and down the country. Let’s hope she really goes into detail about her dream pub, and doesn’t just give us an impression of it.

Want to hear an extended version of this episode, gain access to our bonus podcast ‘Behind The Cellar Door’ and support the upkeep of the pub? If so, head to moonunderpod.com and sign up to our Patreon!

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0:00.0	Oh, press my face into that glass of the frosted angular night.
0:15.6	Take my arm and walk with me until we have our step arrested by the shimmering embrace of the moon underwater.
0:26.3	Thank you. Oh, what a day it is today in the moon underwater, the mystical pub, where all your
1:01.4	publy dreams come true.
1:03.9	This is the place where we invite our guests to create their dream line-up, their dream bar, their dream rules to really
1:13.1	express themselves in their tavern-esque imaginations. I, John Robbins, am the landlord,
1:20.3	and do you find me cleaning my brasses? We've sort of accumulated quite a few new brasses recently.
1:29.6	We've moved on from familiar animal-esque brasses of the foxhead and boar's tooth
1:35.8	to more sort of surreal, I guess, almost more sort of impressionistic brasses.
1:44.7	And with me to examine those brasses a little bit closer and also to help us with our
1:51.5	quest to create the dream pubs of the world is the lovely Robin Allander, the regular
1:56.2	at the moon underwater.
1:57.3	Hello Robin.
1:58.1	Hi John.
1:58.7	How are you doing?
1:59.4	It's lovely to be surrounded by impressionistic brasses. Yeah, one. Hi, John. How are you doing? It's lovely to be surrounded by
2:01.0	impressionistic brasses. Yeah, one of them is fear. You can hang your coat on it. Yeah, you can hang
2:07.2	your coat on the fear brass. There's also one memory brackets general. And one I think was
2:15.3	entitled simply hinterland. Oh, hope?
2:18.5	Hope.
2:19.2	Yeah, hope, the brass of hope.
2:21.2	That's in the shape of a sort of, sort of shape of like half a diamond, but cut at an angle.
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