John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: 2025 Special

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

2025's instalment of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is forty-five minutes of the funniest things John thought of in the last year, performed by John and his regular cast of Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan, with composer Susannah Pearse at the piano and Sally Stares on the cello.

Please note that listening to these sketches about seahorses, time travel and sirens may cause side effects, unless you're listening to the placebo version of the show.

Written and performed by … John Finnemore Ensemble … Margaret Cabourn-Smith Ensemble … Simon Kane Ensemble … Lawry Lewin Ensemble … Carrie Quinlan

Original music … Susannah Pearse Piano … Susannah Pearse Cello … Sally Stares

Recording … Jerry Peal & Jon Calver Editing … Rich Evans

Production Manager … Katie Baum Executive Producer … Richard Morris

Producer … Ed Morrish

John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme is a BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.3	He scored goals, lifted trophies and broken records along the way.
0:11.4	And now he's got a podcast.
0:13.2	Welcome to the Wayne Rooney show.
0:15.2	Twice a week, Wayne Rooney, Kay Kerrude and me, Kelly Summers,
0:18.6	break down the biggest stories in the Premier League and beyond.
0:21.6	As much as you'd like to say it,
0:23.0	loyalty in football now is there's no existence,
0:24.9	whether that's fun players or managers.
0:26.4	Plus, we'll hear the funniest, wildest and most outrageous stories
0:30.0	from Wayne's career.
0:31.2	The Wayne Rooney Show.
0:32.2	It's what everybody's talking about.
0:34.2	Watch an eye player, listen on Towns.
0:40.2	This is John Pinnimore's souvenir, Suburit, Front Brown.
0:58.4	So the pills you'll be taking, maybe the real drug or they may be the placebo.
1:01.4	Right, and do you tell me which or not?
1:02.9	Oh, it depends which group you're in.
1:07.0	You see, because this study is looking into the placebo effect itself...
1:12.2	It's a little more complicated than usual.
1:13.9	I'll take you through the groups.
1:17.1	Group A get the real drug and are told so.
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