THE TRAWL MEETS XMAS PUDDINGS SPECIAL 🎄

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

News, Politics, Government

4.7 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Regular Trawl listeners will know that every Trawl episode ends with a clip ‘pudding’ a treat at the end of every show. Marina and Jemma select clips they find funny, poignant, stirring or entertaining for one reason or another and in this very festive edition of Trawl Meets the Trawl ladies welcome some of your very favourite puddings - Anthony Richardson from The Exploding Heads, Larry and Paul from Broken News fame PLUS one of their favourite Christmas crackers whose posts also regularly feature - the one, the only, Danny F’ing Price - the Instagram activist and all round legend.

Expect clip highlights, Christmas quiz questions such as ‘what would Brexit look like if it was a jumper?’ and a lot of insight into how these brilliantly funny people became the internet sensations they are - holding power (and angry men like Colin from Portsmouth) to account. Enjoy ✌🏼🎄

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0:00.0	And finally, number seven, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year becomes,
0:05.0	we wish you a joyful season and an inclusive New Year.
0:19.1	Hello and welcome to the trawl meets.
0:24.0	I'm Gemma Forte.
0:25.4	And I'm Marina Perkis.
0:27.1	And on the trawl meets, Gemma and I get to meet people we admire and find interesting.
0:30.9	But this trawl meets is a little bit different because it's December.
0:34.5	And so we're full of festive spirit.
0:37.2	So, Marina and I have decided to meet some of
0:40.0	our favourite trawl puddings because who doesn't love a bit of Christmas pudding?
0:44.7	We all want some trolley pudding. We all want some trolley pudding. We all want some trolley pudding.
0:51.2	It's the chore Christmas food. Ah! Okay, you will definitely know our guest if you are a regular trawler. Because Colin from
1:01.8	Portsmouth has become iconically funny, nailing the kind of angry man who watches GB News and thinks
1:09.3	breathing is woke. It's Mark Davidson who plays angry Colin.
1:13.6	However, we today have the very patient radio host who has to deal with him. It is, of course,
1:19.3	Anthony Richardson from The Exploding Heads. Hello, Anthony. Hello, you don't admire me. That was a
1:26.6	lovely intro. You don't like and admire me.
1:29.4	We must do because it's under your content. So, let's change it to like or admire. And then it's,
1:35.1	then it's honest. We tolerate. People we tolerate. Look, listeners, we have come across Anthony at
1:42.1	various parties and so on and so forth.
1:44.5	And I think we need to be honest with our true listeners.
1:46.6	He has turned up for this record and quite frankly it's a bloody disgrace, Anthony.
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