Len Pennie, Brogeal and Paddy Duffy with Stuart and Tam
Off the Ball Podcast
BBC
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
All the best bits from Saturday and Sunday's Off the Ball shows in one petty and ill informed place. Limericks, Live music and Laughs plus one of our guests gets accused of cheating in a pub quiz by Gandalf himself - Ian McKellen. Plus the Terracing Teaser and Seagull XI with slam poet and presenter Len Pennie, Falkirk folk-punk band Brogeal and quiz supremo Paddy Duffy.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Your time starts now. |
| 0:07.2 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | Absolutely right. |
| 0:11.5 | So, you might like to know that the BBC makes loads of other podcasts. |
| 0:15.6 | Really? |
| 0:16.4 | Wow. |
| 0:17.2 | Many of them are very funny. |
| 0:19.1 | Which I think means... |
| 0:20.3 | A hatful of ha-hars. And energy. Even if we do say so ourselves. I agree 100% of that. Find them all on BBC Sounds. Just tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Just search comedy on BBC Sounds. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in. Greetings! Welcome to another edition of the Off the Ball podcast with Stuart Cosgrove and Tam Cowan. |
| 0:43.0 | For full terms and conditions of use, please go to the website, ebc.com.com. |
| 0:47.2 | Dot UK slash Off the ball and follow the links to the podcast page. |
| 0:51.1 | It's only word and words are hard to steal your heart away. |
| 0:59.1 | Yes, indeed, Gis here. |
| 1:00.4 | Elvis, we were just talking about. |
| 1:01.8 | Absolutely. |
| 1:02.5 | The Duchess of Doric, Tam. |
| 1:04.4 | And it is only words. |
| 1:05.8 | Let's start with a couple of things, Len. |
| 1:07.8 | Three quickfire questions to start. |
| 1:10.0 | Is Len an abbreviated version of your first name? It is indeed. What is it? I don't tell people that. Seriously? I don't. Is that your thing? That's my anonymity. Oh, I like that, right? That's good. The word that we've got in our Limerick, the Rangers squad went for a duke. The word duke derivation, have you any idea? |
| 1:28.6 | Ducked up and dive. I love it. It's such a great, great word. And is it just an old Scots word? Old Scots word, that's it. It's one of my absolute favourite words. You can have dockers as well. All right. Swimming for apples. Docking for apples, that's it. I've done the limerick, by the way, so. |
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