#422 - Jimmy Bond, £35.17 and Tudur Owen’s Dad’s Monkey

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Palin, Chalmers, Livingstone… Robins(?!). Yes, gliding into the show today is one of Britain’s greatest travellers. An adventurer unequalled in the 21st century. Because John has been on his once per 9 months short haul trip. Naples has experienced Robins, and he it. With such pizza consumption and the undoubted oscillation between ‘hungry’ and ‘full’, Elis struggles to believe that he can actually have been a laugh there.

But filled with more pies than than all the ninja turtles combined, Robins has a pep in his step for what proves to be a Billy Belter of a show. The boys dig into the practicalities of 007 if he flew Ryanair and there’s a classic double whammy of a Shame.

Plus, there’s something new bursting through the pipes. No it’s not potable tap water or natural gas, but something far more important to John’s existence: wins.

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0:00.0	Did you know that you can listen to many of your favorite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?
0:06.9	Like Friday Night Comedy, where you can hear the latest episode seven days earlier,
0:11.0	and a week is an extremely long time in politics.
0:14.4	Good things come to those who don't wait.
0:17.4	Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.
0:22.6	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:47.4	Oh! Hello, everyone and a quick warning.
0:49.6	I climb as beware.
0:54.1	What you're about to hear may cause you to say, wow, loads.
0:59.0	Yes, it's jet-setter John, back from his travels once again,
1:04.3	as the BBC's most anarchic travel journalist described by the Radio Times as, quote,
1:05.9	a red flag, Ben Fogel.
1:10.2	At home, I'm restless and hungry for the untrodden path.
1:12.1	Desperate to dive into the vibrant colour of a local market, explore distant shores, taking only memories, leaving, only footprints
1:18.8	and guffs.
1:23.1	As such, my travel itinerary is full on, sometimes taking in as much as one short-haul flight a year
1:28.8	and one long-haul flight every three. Knowing that I can't sit still in the UK for more than nine
1:34.6	months, comedian Luke McQueen got in touch. He had a big birthday on the horizon, and the setting
1:41.5	could not be more me. Naples.
1:44.6	Oh, yes.
1:45.9	Looking at my diary, I was free.
1:47.7	So quick as a flash, I said, Luke, let me think about it for a month.
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