This is the Guardian.

Welcome to Weekend, a podcast that helps you switch off from your busy day to day

and find entertainment and inspiration in the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week.

You can either listen to this as one podcast or play each article as individual listens.

Just scroll down the description on the podcast page for the timings of what we are featuring.

Coming up, Guardian writer Chris Godfrey chats to Jackass's Johnny Knoxville on parties,

moral panic and risking it all for Jackass. Guardian columnist Marina Hyde on the most

widespread miscarriage of justice in British history, the post office scandal.

Actor and screenwriter Emma Thompson on embracing the gentle influence of three generations of her family.

The Observer's restaurant critic Jay Rayner tells the story of Careleaver's chef T. Sugarcane London

that will feed your soul.

And finally, for anyone needing a bit of bedroom advice,

journalist and author Nell Friesell gives us 10 tips to revive a tied relationship.

Before we jump in, a quick warning, there's a bit of bad language in this episode.

First up, original reality TV star, actor and producer Johnny Knoxville's outrageous stunt

so Jackass ran for just 10 months but became wildly popular and is still going more than two decades

later. Here he talks to Chris Godfrey about being inspired by his hard-drinking father,

his years in therapy and suffering brain damage, read by Michael Amaraya.

I hear Johnny Knoxville's Tennessee draw before I see him.

I'm gonna get ya! He barks, part children's entertainer, part axe murderer,

as he chases the small child of one of his entourage down the hotel corridor.

Where's my little honey bunny? Is infectious cackle and her giggling shrieks ricochet into the room

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