Oasis, Hosepipes and Flying Ants

The Jason Manford Show

Absolute Radio

Comedy

4.8 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Start your Sunday with Jason Manford and Steve Edge as they return with their usual mix of banter, bizarre facts, and big decisions.

This week, they’re tackling the UK’s hosepipe bans, hear how Jason has to wrestle with a major life choice: birthday party or Oasis gig? There’s also a puzzling Question for Steve about Flying Ant Day that leaves them both baffled, and your weird and wonderful trivia makes a comeback in Hit Me With Your Best Facts.

It’s the kind of Sunday that’ll make you laugh, think, and maybe Google “do ants actually fly?”

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0:38.3	This is Jason Manford. Jason Manford. Good morning. Absolute Radio. This is Jason Manford.
0:39.3	Jason Manford.
0:41.3	Good morning.
0:44.4	It's the Jason Manford show on Absolute Radio.
0:45.3	Steve Edge is here.
0:47.0	Good morning.
0:47.1	Good morning. Morning.
0:47.6	How are you?
0:48.4	I'm all right, yeah.
0:49.6	Weather's taken a bit of a turn.
0:52.0	Yeah, it's, I know.
0:53.3	It feels like something's brewing. It's, do you know what, though? It's taken a bit of a turn. Yeah, it's, I know. It feels like something's brewing. Do you know what, though? It's needed. The garden needed it. It did need it. The house pipeline comes in, I think, this weekend. Yes. Is that just in the south? I think it started in Redden. I think it's coming in. It's very specific, isn't it? I think it might have happened.
1:11.3	Yeah.
1:08.5	I've got a fish pond, though. So, you know, that naturally evaporates. I can't, what am I going to do? I think you're allowed to put a bit of water in a fish pond. I think that's okay if it's going to, I think if it's going to kill something then. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's okay. Yeah. And my kids need that water slide.
1:10.6	You know, the one that used to 24. Yeah. For their mental health.
1:11.7	For their mental health. then yeah yeah I think that's okay yeah and my kids need that water slide you know the one
1:29.2	yeah for their mental health for their mental health mm-hmm exactly so there's a way around
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