Tree Surgery, Pro Paddle & Attractive Professions

The Jason Manford Show

Absolute Radio

Comedy

4.8 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jason Manford is back this Sunday morning with his trusty sidekick Steve Edge!

This week, Jason recounts his charity paddle match with a Traitor - no, seriously, one of those Traitors. Tree surgeons leave the pair completely stumped, and after hosting the glitzy ‘My Dentist Awards’, they sink their teeth into a debate about the UK’s most attractive professions. Spoiler: it’s not Tree Surgeons.

Plus, Bin Chat makes its triumphant return, Question for Steve is back with more baffling brilliance, and Hit Me with Your Best Facts delivers trivia involving penguins, clever crows, and one very angry octopus.

Want to be part of the madness next week? Email Jason@AbsoluteRadio.co.uk - the weirder the better!

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1:00.8	Good morning, it's the Jason Manford Show and Absolute Radio.
1:04.5	Hope you very well this Sunday morning.
1:07.7	My main guy, Steve Edge, is here.
1:09.8	Hello.
1:10.5	How are you, you, right? I thought to give you a new moniker this week. My main guy. My main guy. Steve Edge is here. Hello. How are you? You're right? I thought I'll give you a new moniker this week. My main guy. I like it. Yeah. It's that time of year here where everyone's like sawing a tree down or something. So you might be on so here every known again. Just sounds like a mosquito trapped inside your head. So just be wary of that. Why are people doing that? No, sort of cleaning up after summer going right on that tree. Now the leaves have gone. That's coming down. What, I mean, it's not a job you do yourself though, is it? No, it's a, well, we know what it is. It's a tree surgeon. What do you do for living? I'm a surgeon. Oh, wow. That must be interesting. What sort of stuff do you do? Just cut down weeping willows a bit. Oh, you're a tree surgeon. Oh. It's not real, is it? It's not a surgeon. We've said it before, but it's not, is it? You're not a surgeon, are you?
2:01.0	No.
2:02.3	Your scalpel.
2:03.2	Your chainsaw.
2:03.8	Closer to a carpenter than a doctor, aren't you?
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