The Side of Larry Lamb You’ve Never Seen: Life Beyond Gavin & Stacey
On The Mend
High Performance
4.9 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week’s guest is Larry Lamb, the beloved actor and storyteller who brings a lifetime of wisdom to the table. Known for his warmth and humor, Larry reflects on aging, resilience, and the simple yet powerful ways to live well as the years go by.
In this episode, Larry opens up about the realities of growing older, the aches, the slower pace, and the temptation to dwell on worries, while showing why it’s far more rewarding to focus on gratitude, movement, and joy. From early mornings and daily exercise to his philosophy of “keeping moving forward,” Larry shares how staying active in body and mind fuels vitality and purpose.
This is a candid, uplifting conversation about savouring each day, finding contentment in the present, and embracing the future with an open heart.
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| 0:00.0 | Want to know who's coming up next? Hit follow wherever you get your podcast and you'll be the first to find out. |
| 0:09.8 | Hey, hey, hey, hi everyone. Welcome back to On the Mend with me, your host, Matt Willis. |
| 0:14.0 | On this podcast, we usually look back on life's toughest moments to figure out how to move forward. |
| 0:18.5 | But today, I guess you's someone who's done the work, someone who's lived many lives, right? He's an actor, a father, a poet, an author, and still has a fire burning. Who's up next week? Follow us to find out. Watch wherever you get your podcasts. You'll know him from Gavin and Stacey, EastEnders, I'm a celebrity. But there's so much more to |
| 0:38.0 | Larry Lamb than the roles he's played. Today, we're not here to dig into old wounds. We're here |
| 0:41.5 | to talk about resilience, aging, creativity and how to grow older without giving up. This is a |
| 0:47.5 | conversation about looking forward with one of Britain's most loved and thoughtful voices. Let's get |
| 0:52.4 | into it. Larry, welcome to On the End. Thank you. What a build-up. Here we go. Do you know, normally they're much shorter these intros. We're going to write something good for you today. You say that to everyone, I'm sure. We definitely don't. We definitely don't. So how are you doing, mate? You're right. Good. Yeah. You seem good, man. Really good. Moving forward. Nice. |
| 1:11.4 | Only thing to do, pushing 80, just keep pushing forward. You're pushing 80? Yeah. How old are you now, Larry? 78 in a... You're 78 years old? 78 in two months time, yeah. Right. Right. Wow, man. Wow. What's that feel like? Does it feel real? |
| 1:26.8 | It's just like you're the same person. |
| 1:29.4 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:29.8 | You're older, you're the same person. |
| 1:29.4 | Yeah, yeah. You're older. You're aching more. Yeah. You're getting out of bed is a struggle. |
| 1:35.6 | It's just, you're still the same person. That's the thing. Yeah. You know, you're a little bit wiser, |
| 1:41.3 | hopefully. You've seen a lot more. |
| 1:44.3 | You've got opinions on things that perhaps you hadn't bothered to think about before. |
| 1:49.8 | But really, you're just the same person. |
| 1:52.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:53.5 | And you've just grown older. |
| 1:55.7 | My spirit's still the same as it always was. |
| 1:58.9 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:59.7 | I'm just looking to sort of stay around for as long as I can. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely, man. We were talking before you came on about poetry. And you did some of the 80s, right? Yeah. And you started picking it back up. Yeah. Right. So if you could sum your life up, it's one little line of poetry. |
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