Join terrestrial radio's most unproduceable presenters Elis James and John Robins for big laughs and top quality #content. Hilarious, warm and unashamedly ashamed, let their award-winning chemistry get you over the finish line of the working week. Email: elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk #elisandjohn
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Elis: Welsh, Swansea City fan. John: Bristolian, Queen fan. Together they bring you regular features like the Shame Well, Humblebrag and Tick Off A Taste. Radio X is available across the UK on digital radio, 104.9 FM in London, 97.7 FM in Manchester, on your mobile or via www.radiox.co.uk.
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#395 - A Heavy Weft, A Talented Sheep Dog and 31 Minutes with a Nun
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Fresh from their Christmas Cracker Elis and John are in a sense celebrating Boxing Day, but in another sense they’re creating linear/circular content that can be easily digested at any point this Christmas/not at Christmas at all. In short, it’s the most confusing time of the year! But what we can guarantee there isn’t confusion about is the qualit…
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Elis and John’s Christmas Cracker
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“Mmmh yeah Christmastime.” In a linear sense it’s Christmas Day. In a circular sense it’s some time between 13th and 25th December. Ho! Ho! Ho! What better way to celebrate the birth of Jesus than Elis and John’s Christmas Cracker? Oh and we have festive fun. Elis and John write a Christmas song which is equal parts downbeat and administration heav…
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#393 - High Budget Dreams, Smacks of Mellor and That Fried Tuesday Feeling
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This is sierras of the papas broadcasting, and news just in: we’re all out of papas! John’s losing his voice because of doing an extraordinary impression of an Australian in a mystical Bureau de Change for some BBC Sounds bonus content, but we plough on! And in a way, this is the definition of ‘talent’, which we discover that Tim Davie is keen to d…
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#392 - Not Letting Down 750 GPs, The Jet2 Prerogative and Sophie Duker
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“All suffering is resistance to suffering” is soon followed by “we are technically a comedy podcast” on the show today. So it’s clearly another banter filled hour or so which covers the hilarious fodder of regret, gratitude and whether you should tell your BF that you’ve got a billiard room. It’s all good stuff as Dave is pressured into doing stand…
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#391 - Egg on Cord, Perpetual Tennis and A Very Successful Brown Owl
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There are records today for pre-Cymru Connection heads in hands as Britain’s clumsiest Welsh language comic gets all sorts of muck over himself. Amidst such mess there’s only one thing that can carry Elis James through: A songwriting talent to rival Lennon & McCartney at their peak. This brings the return of the classic 'Dorking, Leatherhead, Ryega…
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#390 - Annsbie, We Lube Up and The Hypothetical Widow Tour 2025
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“Purgatory is nothing. This is hell.” You’ll never guess which presenter’s mouth that inspiring line came out of today. Well if you want a clue perhaps you might be able to tell that John has had a bum setback. But we lube up, we go again, and we create content. Though he has bifurcated into two - spiritual gas John and physical John - in order to …
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#389 - Big Leg, The Cymdown Connection and Plugged Into His Router Just For You
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The term ‘firing on all cylinders’ was invented for 72 minutes of audio just like this, because your beautiful boys really are firing on every one of the Content V8 today. And that’s all despite John having some flakey skin on his elbow. That’s eight powerful cylinders for you. On Cylinder One we’ve got 'unlocking the corporate secrets of eggs'. Cy…
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#388 - Let’s Lavender, Sounds Like My Love Life and Celya AB
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It’s the night before Elis’ big Welsh stand up gig, and he’s packed all the essentials needed to record a smash-hit TV comedy show: spare trousers, spare shoes, nappies and a funnel. And how best can John pep up a clearly nervous Elis? By talking him through an array of ridiculous scenarios that DEFINITELY won’t happen, and ridiculing the man's soc…
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#387 - Neil’s Crane Company, Paid In Chinese and Lightning In A Handbag
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There’s a lot of inspiring going on today in Elis and John towers. And perhaps unsurprisingly, once again it’s Inspirer-in-Chief Mr John Robins doing the rousing. What Nightingale was to nursing, Robins is to content. Dave goes sanulus canulus as he follows JR’s path finding - well according to John. And a glossy eyed Elis reminisces about utilisin…
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#386 - Daft Brian, Going Gallagher and The Phillips Head Bat Signal
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John’s back in action - well to a degree. He can now eat Dairylea on toast and has to stand for the duration of the show. And in solidarity with the prettiest and bravest private in the Arsed Forces, Elis and Dave are also no longer seated. It’s like a podcast now manned by Zane Lowe or those under 40 business types that work standing to boost prod…
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#385 - Yards From Davie, Calippos Wouldn’t Melt and The World’s Wealthiest Cat
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Huge news from Leeds, for Producer Dave has been in the vicinity of the Director General himsen. Solero perched in hand, not a drop of juice on his fingers, charming the big wigs of the media world. What an honour to be in the presence of an intoxicating whiff of his Magnum cologne. But incredibly that isn’t even the biggest news of the day. For th…
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#384 - Pretty Podcast Boys, Short Tempered Cyborgs and All Time is Wasted Time
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At what point does a bum recovery journey transmogrify into a spiritual journey? Probably around the nine day mark, for John’s continuing convalescence from his spooky procedure has gone beyond the physical. It’s also led to him growing a beard and looking like a Russian chess prodigy, so swings and roundabouts… But what does excite John is the new…
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#383 - Ballon D’Arts, Banter Zone Jet Lag and The Enema Within
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The march of AI has engulfed everything in its path: cars no longer need drivers, paintings no longer need painters, and songs no longer need writers. But one man stands in the way of AI’s relentless progress: John Robins. What can AI do with hours and hours of one of the leading voices of generation shame? It’s a question that is finally answered …
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#382 - Spooooky Intimate Bum Procedures, Perfect BBC Noise and Same Postcode Different Houses
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What’s the only way to spend Halloween? It’s having a spoooooky intimate bum procedure of course! So John's dressed as a spoooky ghost in a bed sheet. (He's in bed as he recovers). There’s no way he was to be knocking on the doors of rural Bucks to fill his pumpkin bucket with Chomps and Refreshers when he’s got an ice pack strapped to his behind. …
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#381 - Your Main Crem, A Talentless Forsyth and The Great Traybake Swindle
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Bye Bye Mr Audio, Hello Mr Saturday Night! There are rumours that Saturday night TV is dead. That it just doesn't bring in the eyeballs that Bowen, Black and Forsyth once did and the cash well is drying up. But with five kids between them and the prospect of John’s fixed rate mortgage expiring at an unstated date, that’s still enough cash to entice…
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#380 - Lord VPN, Bullied On The Boundary and Stansbie
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Drink in it folks, we’re living in a new golden age. That’s right, the lesser talked about field of alpinism has reached new heights, a new zenith. And there’s one man to thank: Mr John Robins. Johnny JR’s record-breaking successful scale of the Matterhorn with his eyes (a feat previously thought impossible) is picked over in detail, as is his expe…
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#379 - Bishop Gore Blanks, Forwarded Many Times x, and There Is An ‘I’ In Lazio
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Jekyll and Hyde isn’t a work of fiction. Nor is James McAvoy in hit film Split. No. If you were to venture down the B and C roads of mainland Wales the past few weeks you’ll have seen something far more surprising: Welsh Elis and English Elis. For there’s an astonishing revelation of the West Walian comic once thought of as polite and mild-mannered…
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#378 - Wacko Lacto, Gatwick Fresh and Falling Into a Big Ditch
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What do we all do before going on holiday? Check we have our Big Three (keys, boarding pass, passport), worry about whether the place has a washing machine, and write up a draft will. It’s the classic Robins pre-holiday triumvirate. Yes, Johnny JR is off on his holidays to climb the Matterhorn with his eyes. And boy does he have a spring in his ste…
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#377 - Dropped In The Riff Tank, Two Dads (Not Gay) and Ania Magliano
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When one thinks of the great socialisers ‘John’ and ‘Robins’ are two words that don’t immediately spring to mind. But are we seeing a transformation in a week that sees John enter 1920s socialite levels of social butterflyery. From partying in Brixton and currying with top business folk, to watching Tom Rosenthal get fitted for golf clubs for four …
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#376 - Skeggsy, Deggsy and £360 Cash
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Wheel the to 1:50 scale Maine Road birthday cake out, Producer Dave is turning 40! George Orwell posited that 1984 would be a year of bleak dystopian nightmares. In reality it spawned Lionel Richie’s ‘Hello’, the film Ghostbusters and Stockport's finest podcast-first producer, Dave Masterman. Eat that, Orwell. So it’s time to celebrate in the only …
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#375 - Gravel Man, My Sex Club Year and Space Cop Heart Rates
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It's all about heights today, as despite scaling the lofty heights of the digital UK audio comedy chat rock face, Elis is still uncomfortable when confronted by a modicum of verticality. But not the case for John who is going to push his own ocular mountaineering boundaries. Elsewhere there’s dinner dates, Welsh heart rates and service stations pot…
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#374 - Dust or Leaves, A Tight Three Seconds and Humour! Humour! Humour!
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After the wave of excitement around Mr Audio’s new Welsh podcast project 'Welsh Rarebit: Grilled by Elis James', it’s time for John to enter the lucrative side-hustle podcast game. Step forward 'Trauma on The Tee with John Robins'. If deep emotional conversations and the latest bunker wedges are your thing, keep your ears peeled. But here on this p…
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#373 - Street Juice, The Cymru Cul-de-sac and 10 Sketches About Soup
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Elis and John have been on journeys this week, both metaphorically and literally. Yes we cover their travel woes as the pair journeyed back from Wales (Elis sustained by Aberystwyth goodwill, John driven by the need to forge his own path), but we also cover the spiritual journeys undertaken in the realms of teeth whitening, shoe laces, and slug jui…
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#372 - My Little Lover, The ABBA Gold Approach and Cuffed by the Vice Squad
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It’s happened. Elis and John have turned into crypto bros. This is now a crypto pod. It was only a matter of time… But worry not, it’s only a fleeting transformation, and after some serious reflections the boys are back doing what they do best: discussing how to approach an all-you-can-eat buffet, wading further into the dried fruits vs sweets deba…
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#371 - 3 Features & the Truth, Get It Done and Welsh Rarebit: Grilled by Elis James
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It’s a giddy John we encounter today, for our hero is about to embark on his yearly golfing pilgrimage to Elis’s beloved Portugal. Talk of unspeakably high win rates and historic opportunities to become “better than Man City at golf” abounds. Elsewhere, there’s a lengthy discussion about the pros and cons of skipping TV theme music, an eventful out…
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