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Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

November's Moments of the Month

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.5566 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Hello, here's a round up of the best bits from the last month of shows, featuring the fantastic comic Kerry Godliman (she's so funny), wine expert Tom Gilbey with a great story about Iron Maiden, dictionary corner's Susie Dent and the American-Palestinian comic Mo Amer. If you hear something you like you can double-back and take in the whole episode if you like! Producer: Dan Atkinson Line Producer: Daisy Knight Exec Producer: James Taylor Composer: Fat Lady Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to November's moments of the month. In case you're new here, this is a compilation show with a sniffed up each guest we've enjoyed this month. So you can get a little flavor. Then if you like the taste of any of them, you can double back, listen to the whole

0:20.8

episode. It's a really good way of hooking you. Basically, you can listen to someone you might not

0:26.0

have listened to in the first place. First in studio was the brilliant stand-up Kerry Godleman.

0:35.9

So your first brilliant thing is secondhand clothes.

0:38.3

Secondhand clothes. But that's too big and I probably should have one specific. Oh, this dress, this...

0:43.3

But in my head... And we're not talking hand-me-downs.

0:46.3

No, we're talking sort of what now I suppose people call.

0:49.3

Sue Ryder, you're Oxfams.

0:51.3

No. Okay. So it's more... Thrift. Yeah, I suppose the words we use now are Thrift or Vintage. Gotcha. You know how the young people now are on vintage? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw a sign in Canada that said post-owned clothes. Yes. The other one is pre-love. Pre-loved. Yeah. Extraordinary, isn't it?

1:11.0

Pre-loved.

1:11.8

But when I was going up, it was called secondhand.

1:14.3

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or tat. Yeah, but you see, you're muddling up like hand-me-downs and charity shops with, I'm like, there used to be a shopping common garden called Flip. Right. I don't know if any... Do you remember that?

1:25.7

Well, it used to sell like original 501s and baseball jackets.

1:30.4

Yes, yes.

1:30.9

It was just around that time, maybe in the 80s when those Levi ads were out. So everything was a bit 50s, a bit retro. Yeah. People having, men having those sort of D-A haircuts like Mark Lamar used to have. And that kind of vibe. And when I was growing up, my mum had a stall in Port Bella Road.

1:48.3

Oh, wow.

1:48.6

So a big sort of key part of my early childhood was sitting on her stall.

1:52.6

And she used to sell 40s and 50s clothes in this arcade.

1:57.6

And there was a bloke down the end who sold old records.

2:02.2

And he played mostly rockabilly and stuff like that and his very vivid memory of my early childhood was sitting in that area

2:08.4

of like Portobella kind of Notting Hill that patch and that energy of secondhand markets so it is

2:16.9

different to the charity shop vibe that you're saying.

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