#398 - The Best of The Great Reset

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Things that can be reset: timers, bones, electronic devices. Other things that can be reset: bantercasts featuring the BBC’s youngest and most relevant broadcasters. For this year, Messrs Elis James and John Robins hit the big reset button, and changed to a groundbreaking linear podcast-first broadcast-second podcast way of broadcasting, something that most had previously thought impossible.

After John had introduced the show in cod-Shakespearean describing 5 Live’s annual social, there were flickers of hope. When Tony Blackburn stopped by ostensibly to read from his masterwork Poptastic!, but ended up laying into Dave’s latest jingle, there were tremors of belief. And when Elis explained how John was once sacked for sadness from Deal or No Deal, the writing was on the wall; this new way of broadcasting was working. The reset was complete.

So sit back and bask in the best bits of the Elis James and John Robins podcast since The Great Reset. And we’ll be back with regular programming on Friday.

Your top notch correspondence has been one of the best parts of the show, so keep on sending it in to [email protected], or WhatsApp the show on 07974 293 022.

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others.
0:05.2	My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland.
0:11.3	It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here,
0:16.3	but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world.
0:19.6	And because the team is such a diverse
0:21.2	range of skills and strengths, we have trained journalists, people who love digging through
0:26.0	archives, we've got drama and even comedy experts. We really can do those stories justice. So if
0:31.8	you like this podcast, head to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories
0:37.1	from all around the UK. BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories from all around the UK.
0:39.9	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:43.9	Ellis and John, the best of the great reset. Yes, it's a collection of our favourite trimmings from the enormous meal
1:13.9	that was Ellis and John's podcast first platform, linear, not circular,
1:21.5	rebrand, wasn't it, Ellis?
1:23.7	Yeah, the distinction between linear and circular is actually a very important one, but far too complex to go into right now.
1:31.6	Yes, absolutely. And all you need to know is that in January this year, we were censored by the BBC for being too forthright in our views.
1:39.7	Yes, and too dangerous and handsome.
1:42.5	We were potatoes so hot that BBC top brass for the last six months of our time on Five Live
1:50.2	had to come to work wearing oven gloves.
1:52.8	Yes, and we were wrapped in tinfoil.
1:55.2	Yes, and they had tinfoil on their heads as hats.
1:58.8	Yes, very, very good, John.
2:01.8	So, Ellis, what are your predictions for 2025, of course?
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