#406 - Callipound, A4 Ravioli and Our New Coal

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Someone’s put 50p in Johnny JR today. And it’s incredible what such loose change can enact. For since the wee hours he’s been cackling into his notebook at the output of his terrifyingly fervent mind at work. So fervent in fact, that he almost struggles to get through his own twisting creation. Strap in from the off, because when he’s in top gear it’s a mind quite unlike any other.

Beyond the bubbling crevasses of John’s imagination there’s Elis James to deal with. Because once again it’s time for his own progeny to skewer him in increasingly damning ways.

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0:00.0	Sir Alex Ferguson is the most successful British manager of all time.
0:05.0	Nobody is above him or this football club.
0:08.0	So how did an apprentice toolmaker from Glasgow become one of the most iconic figures in sporting history?
0:15.0	His strength of character, his determination, the fight on him.
0:18.0	He can be persuasive, he can be charming. He can be frightening.
0:21.4	I'm Kelly Cates,
0:22.5	and this is Sporting Giants, Sir Alex Ferguson.
0:25.8	I didn't want to feel.
0:26.9	I couldn't feel.
0:27.9	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.8	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:36.8	Music, radio, podcasts.
0:55.5	Hello, everyone.
1:00.9	I've rarely set much store by accusations of corruption leveled at the BBC,
1:07.4	as they usually come from Twitter accounts where the name is in alternate capital letters and somehow a Gothic font.
1:12.5	But what I've discovered over the last week has rocked me to my call.
1:20.2	I was watching five live superb social media clips of this very show,
1:26.2	flicking through their groundbreaking carousel approach to promo, but something wasn't right.
1:27.5	These images looked, if anything, too good.
1:32.9	Now, often I will go without sleep the night before recording in order to...
1:40.0	Often, I will go to sleep the night before recording in order to age myself
1:45.1	and quash rumours that Ellis is broadcasting with a minor.
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