Young Weavers

Who's Tom & Dick

Patrick Mortimer & Martin Weavers

Anxiety, Cancer, Cardiac Arrest, Comedy Interviews, Hospice, Mental Health, Comedy, Stents, Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Depression, Health & Fitness, Heart Failure, Heart Attack, Breast Cancer

5.0 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Season 3 Episode 23 On today’s episode, we welcome Jonny Weavers – Martin’s son – for a conversation that’s full of love, laughter, and lasting memories. Jonny joins Patrick to look back on the life of his dad, Martin: not just the voice people knew and loved, but the man behind it all – a devoted father, a proud grandad, and someone who left a huge impression on everyone around him. Together, they talk through Jonny’s childhood memories and the bond he shared with his dad, f...

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to another episode of Who's Tom and Dick. I hope you're all well and had a good week.
0:19.7	And today we're still reminiscent about my old mate Martin. I hope you're all well and had a good week. And today, we're still reminiscent
0:21.7	about my old mate, Martin. I still can't believe he's not with me. But, so I've got the
0:27.3	next best thing this morning. I've got Johnny, his son, who's joined me. And we're going to talk
0:31.6	over our old stories. So I'd like you all to welcome to the podcast today. Johnny Weavers. Good morning, Johnny. Good morning. It's strange to be here. It's very strange to be here. It's going to say it's lovely. Obviously, wrong word. Yeah. I'm really glad to be here to talk about me, Dad, and I'm looking forward to it. Well, that's lovely to have you. And a strange that we never ever got you on the podcast. I mean, me and Martin talked about quite a few times. And I don't really know why it didn't happen. No, I did have words. Yeah, he's had my sister. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We went down and saw your sister. Yeah, you used to give him a gentle nudge. Yeah. Ask him, yeah, what am I waiting for? I was expecting the letter in the post. Yeah. Well, well, here you are.
1:11.0	And, I'd ask him, yeah, what am I waiting for? I was expecting the letter in the post.
1:11.3	Yeah.
1:20.0	Well, here you are. And perhaps you'd like to start by telling me a little bit about your dad from your side.
1:29.6	So, yeah, my dad, he was brilliant. From the moment I was, you know, born, you know, he's always been a presence in my life.
1:34.1	Even the years, you know, when he lived out in Spain, we always stayed in touch.
1:39.9	You know, there weren't many days we went without communicating in, you know, one form or another.
1:41.8	He loved to FaceTime.
1:44.7	It was great, like I say, even when he was in another country,
1:47.8	we felt like we could still see each other that way.
1:48.2	Yeah.
1:49.9	He loved sport.
1:53.7	He really pushed that as from an early age, and I have very much inherited my dad's love for footy and cricket.
1:58.1	Oh, yes.
1:59.3	He was a big arstle fan. We shared that love together. We can't all be perfect, can you. Oh, yes. He was a big Arsenal fan.
2:01.1	We shared that love together.
2:02.8	We can't all be perfect, can you?
2:04.2	No, no.
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