The Toughest Job In Entertainment

The Rest Is Entertainment

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🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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How do the BBC find hosts last minute when hosts are off ill (or sacked?). Is musical translation the hardest job in entertainment? What is the most mentioned brand in chart history? Richard Osman and Marina Hyde answer your questions on the world of entertainment. The Rest is Entertainment is brought to you by Octopus Energy, Britain's most awarded energy supplier. Join The Rest Is Entertainment Club: Unlock the full experience of the show – with exclusive bonus content, ad-free listening, early access to Q&A episodes, access to our newsletter archive, discounted book prices with our partners at Coles Books, early ticket access to live events, and access to our chat community. Sign up directly at therestisentertainment.com For more Goalhanger Podcasts, head to www.goalhanger.com Video Editor: Charlie Rodwell Assistant Producer: Imee Marriott Senior Producer: Joey McCarthy Social Producer: Bex Tyrrell Exec Producer: Neil Fearn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Rest is Entertainment is presented by Octopus Energy.
0:03.8	Now, remember, Octopus Energy do something really great.
0:07.1	If they've got your birthday, when you call in for whatever reason to Octopus,
0:11.6	the whole music is the number one selling single from that year,
0:17.1	the year of your 14th birthday.
0:18.8	And we discover, didn't we, that yours was the only way is up by
0:22.3	Yaz and the plastic population. We're going to discover mine now. Yours is, I just called to say I love
0:29.7	you by Stevie Wonder. Okay. Listen, I prefer yours. Do you think it's weird to have whole music,
0:36.0	which is I just call to say I love you? Because, listen,
0:39.6	and you know that I love Octopus Energy, but I will rarely ring them to tell them I love them.
0:44.4	Yeah. Yeah, I would usually, but, you know, I'd just want to chat to them about something to do with my
0:48.1	energy. And I don't mean that sort of energy. Well, look, they can but surface the number one single of that year for you.
0:56.0	And you can always choose not to have the music. You can choose for no, but I think only animals do that,
1:02.5	as I've said, and I want to go on the record as saying that.
1:08.9	Hello and welcome to this episode of the Restors Entertainment, Questions and Answers Edition. I'm Marina Hi. And I am Richard Osman. Lots of lovely questions. Thank you, listeners, as always, for sending them in. Should we get straight into it? Well, we're not going to because we have some any other business. Whoa. Are you kidding me? Courtesy of Russell T. Davis.
1:29.1	The Russell T. Davis.
1:30.0	Yes.
1:30.5	What is Russell the same?
1:31.5	Russell says, Dear Richard Marina, I love you.
1:33.7	I literally love you more, Russell.
1:35.4	But I have to insist, the greatest Chekhov's gun we were talking about this last week,
1:39.5	is surely the claw.
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