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The Big Muddler1.1 Trouble at the TombIt starts in Egypt, but how does it end? With The Big Muddler, you can never be sure where you’re going. This edition – THE FIRST EVER EPISODE – heads down the beach with resident soap opera Great Crustaceans. Twice we cross to America to catch up with some entitled Brits. There’s a spooky story from Kathmandu, and several visits to Muddler Live – a land whose people love to laugh and sing. Your tour guide is Matthew Crampton, with guests poet Elvis McGonagall and pianist Dorian Ford. Enjoy the Variety!There'll be five more episodes in Series One. Want...
2025-05-2026 min
The Bounty Bunch PodcastEscapeOn this podcast that celebrates and shares all things poetry, we have our very first comedy special episode!Joining us is a whole host of incredible poets, some you will be familiar with if you've been following our podcast for a while and some that our brand new!Please note that a lot of the poems in this episode have swearing in them not suitable for little ears.Returning we have Charlotte Faulconbridge, Ade Couper and Linette RabsaatBrand new to the podcast :Nathan Lunt:
2025-04-1534 min
My Time CapsuleEp. 417 - Elvis McGonagallElvis McGonagall is a stand-up poet, comedian and broadcaster. Two series of his sitcom “Elvis McGonagall Takes A Look On The Bright Side” have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 where he appears regularly as well as popping up occasionally on the television. Elvis is the 2006 World Poetry Slam Champion, the compere of The Blue Suede Sporran Club and performs at literary and music festivals, comedy and cabaret clubs, pubs and dodgy dives up and down the country and abroad, including appearances at: Edinburgh Fringe and Glastonbury Festival where he was poet-in-residence in 2007. Elvis also gigs with his band The Resu...
2024-08-1642 min
On the MicEpisode 71: Elvis McGonagall's Origin StoryElvis is a World Slam Champion and compère of the Blue Suede Sporran Club. He is a regular on BBC Radio 4 including two series of 'Elvis McGonagall Takes A Look On The Bright Side' and the stand-up special: 'Full Tartan Jacket'.
This is his origin story.
Elvis also talks about his Edinburgh show, 'Gin and Catatonic?'
Presented by Martin Walker
Elvis' Profile and Social Media HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
2024-06-1509 min
Poet WafflePoet Waffle #28 (Clive Birnie & Elvis McGonagall)Poet Daniel Cockrill takes Poet Waffle on the road and visits the home of publisher and poet Clive Birnie for an intimate chat. They are also joined by poet and political satirist Elvis McGonagall.
During this chat they explore the visceral space between fact and fiction to reveal certain truths that can’t necessarily be explained by these other fields.
They also attempt to answer the Poet Waffle Big Question; Can Ideas Be Dangerous?
Topics include: jobs before poetry, publishing, becoming unemployable, poetry as a business, performance poetry in book form, the curse of social media, creating a brand, Brexit as...
2023-10-1154 min
All in the MindThe Anatomy of Kindness ResultsClaudia Hammond and guests announce the results of the biggest ever public science project on Kindness. With over sixty thousand participants from across the world this unique work helps to fill some of the research gaps and learn more about how kindness is viewed within society at large. Led by a team of researchers based at the University of Sussex, in partnership with BBC Radio 4, Claudia is joined on stage at the BBC Radio Theatre by Professor Robin Bannerjee who has been crunching the data. Together with poet Raymond Antrobus, Stylist magazine editor in chief Lisa Smosarski , comedian Elvis...
2022-03-0956 min
Loose EndsGugu Mbatha-Raw, Mackenzie Crook, Elvis McGonagall, The Tiger Lillies, Steven Bamidele, Arthur Smith, Clive AndersonClive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mackenzie Crook and Elvis McGonagall for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Tiger Lillies and Steven Bamidele.
2021-12-1836 min
Met Office - PodcastsWeather Snap 12 Nov 2021The Met Office takes a weekly look at the science behind the UK and global weather headlines.
In this week’s podcast medicanes once again threaten southern Europe, a grand scientific project releasing carbon dioxide into the Amazon rainforest and climate change poetry with Elvis McGonagall of the Hot Poets project.
Presenter: Clare Nasir
Editor: Adrian Holloway
The Met Office is the United Kingdom's national weather service. Our website carries the latest UK and global weather forecasts, detailed information on weather types, climate science and UK weather records for previous months, seasons and years.
www.metoffice.gov.uk
2021-11-1213 min
The Thunder MuttersEpisode Twelve - The Shepherd's Calendar - November - John ClareWelcome to the twelfth episode of The Thunder Mutters, featuring 'November' from John Clare's 'The Shepherd's Calendar’, performed by Adam Horovitz, and interspersed with tunes from Clare’s tune manuscripts performed by Becky Dellow.As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters. Any contributions much appreciated.We will return extremely shortly in ber with the next episode, so please come back then and take a listen. All the tunes in this episode have been taken from John Clare's tune manuscript books...
2020-11-2025 min
Poet WafflePoet Waffle #2 (Nathan Penlington)Poet Daniel Cockrill invites poet, writer, artist, film maker, obsessive and magician Nathan Penlington round his house for a chat.
During this chat they explore the visceral space between fact and fiction to reveal certain truths that can’t necessarily be explained by these other fields.
They also attempt to answer the Poet Waffle Big Question: Do you believe in the unexplained?
Topics covered include: Poetry, Live performance, Magic, Short Fuse, Bang Said The Gun, Flyering, Zines, MySpace, Facebook, Word Of Mouth, Day Time TV, Hand Made Objects, Bards In Their Eyes, Poetry Idol, Time Out, Writing Workshops, Topless Barmaids, Th...
2019-02-2732 min
Seriously...A Brief History of LustDoes what makes the heart beat faster really make the world go round? Oh yes. Welcome to a new history of lust presented by the American satirist Joe Queenan. From Helen and Paris of Troy to Bill and Monica via Rasputin, Edwina Currie and John Major, this is a tale of life as a bunga bunga bacchanal.
With contributions from historian Suzannah Lipscomb, classicist Edith Hall, plus Agnes Poirier, Joan Bakewell (of course), Caitlin Moran and Richard Herring on Rasputin; a specially composed new poem on lust from Elvis McGonagall; and music from Prince, T Rex, Bessie Smith and...
2017-02-2158 min
Book Slam PodcastBook Slam Podcast 68 (with Elvis McGonagall, Ned Beauman, Emma Jane Unsworth and Benin City)Book Slam's 68th podcast rushes along like a train in the company of NED BEAUMAN discussing his new novel 'Glow', and EMMA JANE UNSWORTH introducing 'Animals'. There's music from BENIN CITY who put the 'ill' into brillo pads and poetry from ELVIS MCGONAGALL, putting the 'don' into Caledonia. Patrick's got beard envy, Elliott's got every other kind.
2014-11-1435 min
Saturday LiveJay Rayner and the Inheritance Tracks of Julian Lloyd WebberRichard Coles in London and Suzy Klein in Bristol from the Bristol Food Connections Festival with food writer Jay Rayner, The Inheritance Tracks of Julian Lloyd Webber, Nick Hunt following in the footsteps of Patrick Leigh Fermor on his 2,500 mile walk from Rotterdam to Istanbul, JP Devlin meeting urban gull expert Peter Rock on a Bristol rooftop, poetry from Elvis McGonagall, Vicky Harrison who is knitting Bristol in miniature and Romy Gill, chef and restaurant owner on the immeasurable joys of modern Indian food.Jay Rayner, food critic, author and jazz pianist joins Richard in the studio...
2014-05-031h 25
A Good ReadVanessa Feltz and Elvis McGonagallHarriett Gilbert and her guests – BBC Radio 2’s Vanessa Feltz and performance poet, Elvis McGonagall - discuss books by Javier Marias. AA Milne and Jeff Torrington. A Heart So white by Javier Marias, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Publisher: VintageTwo People by AA Milne
Publisher: Capuchin ClassicsSwing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington
Publisher: VintageFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2013.
2013-06-1128 min
Book Slam PodcastBook Slam Podcast 45 (with Irvine Welsh, Elvis McGonagall, Drums Of Death and Barry and Stuart)The 45th Book Slam podcast has a decidedly Celtic fringe as we reflect on the launch of Irvine Welsh's coruscating prequel to 'Trainspotting', 'Skagboys'. With poetry from the ever-entertaining Elvis McGonagall, Slytherin magic from Barry and Stuart and age-appropriate proto-rave from the exquisitely-named Drums Of Death, this is much more fun than getting high in an Edinburgh squat circa 1983. There's also a triptych from Irvine himself: an interview with Alex Rayner, a reading from the book and a snippet from the great man's contribution to 'One For The Trouble'. Salena returns as Madame Cholet, Elliott is undoubtedly Orinoco.
2012-05-1533 minSaturday LiveJarvis Cocker, Elvis McGonagall, Garreth Smyth, Zuhal Sultan, Salvador Dali, Roger Lloyd PackRichard Coles with Jarvis Cocker, poet Elvis McGonagall, Zuhal Sultan who taught herself to play the piano and set up the Iraqi Youth Orchestra, Garret Smyth who's planning to cryogenically preserve his brain at the point of death in the hope of the being brought back to life, Anne Pattullo who hitched a ride with Salvador Dali, Piers Plowright's I Was There from a ski jumping competition in the middle of London in the 1950s, and the Inheritance Tracks of actor Roger Lloyd Pack. Producer: JP Devlin.
2012-03-3156 minSaturday LiveUlrika Jonsson; Elvis McGonagall; Sword Swallower; Sleaford Crowdscape; Hearse Hitchhiker; Ruby Wax Inheritance TracksRichard Coles with TV personality Ulrika Jonsson, poet Elvis McGonagall, a sword swallower who tore his own oesophagus, a woman who became best friends with her husband's mistress, a man who hitched a ride with a coffin, and a Crowdscape from Sleaford. Plus the Inheritance Tracks of comedian Ruby Wax. Producer: Sukey Firth.
2012-01-2156 minSaturday LivePatricia Cornwell, Elvis McGonagall, Cassius Clay's 'Stand By Me', Assisted Dying, Whisky Galore ShipwreckRichard Coles with crime writer Patricia Cornwell, poet Elvis McGonagall, Michelle Clements who accompanied her terminally ill husband to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, Alisdair Macleod from the Outer Hebrides who's explored the shipwreck which inspired Whisky Galore, the club DJ who found a rare recording of Cassius Clay singing 'Stand By Me', and the Ulrika Jonsson shares her Inheritance Tracks.Producer: JP Devlin.
2011-11-2656 min
Book Slam PodcastBook Slam Podcast 40 (with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Craig Taylor, Jeremy Dyson and more)The rip-roaring 40th Book Slam podcast is jam-packed with all kinds of good stuff, including music from the remarkable Izzi Dunn, Craig Taylor reading from his brilliant 'Londoners', poetry from Elvis McGonagall, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reading from her short story 'Quality Street', and an interview with co-creator of The League Of Gentlemen and Ghost Stories, Jeremy Dyson. Plus! Plus! Pluuussss! An exclusive extract from 'One For The Trouble - Book Slam Vol.1' - a snippet of William Boyd's story, 'Tears Of A Clown', read by the wonderful Olivia Colman (pictured), famous for, among many other things, Tyrannosaur. Patrick...
2011-11-1637 minSaturday Live08/10/2011Sian Williams with Gyles Brandreth, poet Elvis McGonagall, a woman who was experimented on by the British Eugenics Society, and a man from Oxford who's had a shark sticking out of his roof for the past 25 years. There's a Crowdscape from Broadstairs and Inheritance Tracks from Old Grey Whistle Test legend Bob Harris.Producer Simon Clancy.
2011-10-0857 minSaturday LiveAnita Anand with Alexei Sayle, Elvis McGonagall and Eoin ColferAnita Anand hears from creative polymath Alexei Sayle, poet Elvis McGonagall, Richard Williams, who was caught up in the bombing that killed and injured many people in Oklahoma City in 1995, Brian Belle-Fortune who was at Ben Johnson's incredible 1988 Olympic 100 metre win and now has tickets for the 100 metre final in London in 2012 and Janet Barker who sets quiz questions for the big TV quizzes. And there are the inheritance tracks of children's author Eoin Colfer.
2011-07-3056 minSaturday Live28/05/2011Richard Coles with novelist John Connolly, poet Elvis McGonagall, a Rwandan man who took his teenage son back to the scenes of the genocide he'd fled, and a young woman who grew up on the diplomatic circuit. There's a Guerilla report about The Floral Dance and actress Niamh Cusack shares her Inheritance Tracks.
2011-05-2856 minSaturday Live26/03/2011Suzy Klein with pop star Rick Astley and poet Elvis McGonagall; interviews with a woman who found out at the age of 18 that her father was not the man who'd raised but a famous novelist instead. There's a Crowdscape from Letchworth, Britain's first Garden City and home of the country's first roundabout, and Inheritance Tracks from Clarence B Jones, the man who helped Martin Luther King write his 'I Have a Dream' speech.
2011-03-2656 minSaturday Live22/01/2011Fi Glover with Dragon's Den business guru Deborah Meaden and poet Elvis McGonagall, a man who set up his own airline while he was homeless and later sold it for £30 million, and a convert to Islam. There's a piano-tuning Soundsculpture from the great-great-grandson of Chopin's piano tuner and Rick Astley shares his Inheritance Tracks.
2011-01-2257 minSaturday Live04/12/2010The Reverend Richard Coles with studio guest Gloria Hunniford, poet Elvis McGonagall, the man who carried the flag for England at the 1966 World Cup and a woman who discovered her father's bigamous secret; percussionist Evelyn Glennie reveals her Secret Life and Inheritance Tracks from Mary Coughlan.
2010-12-0457 min
Live at the Edinburgh FestivalEdinburgh festival podcast: Laura Solon and Sean HughesSean Hughes, Laura Solon and Patrick Monahan join Miles Jupp for a chinwag - plus there's standup comedy from Simon Munnery, a sketch from Tommy and the Weeks and a poem from Elvis McGonagall
2009-08-2831 min
HomegrownHomegrown Programme 59 Xmas Show Part 2
Music from:
Ryan Smith - All I Want
Jimmie Bratcher - Midnight Clear
Moses - Breath Of Bells
Twinmaker - I Hate
ChristmasRoadside Attractions - What
Santa Wants
Spoken Word:
Elvis McGonagall - Driving Over
A Cliff At Christmas
Nic Treadwell The
Parsons At Christmas (Part Two)(bed music on Parsons by Julie Melton - Silent Night / Doug Boldt - Everyday Has It's Key aka The Twelve Days Of Christmas
Steve Clark - I Want My
Star
Mags Scorey - The Bethlehem Times
Reporter
2006-12-2351 minHomegrownHomegrown Programme 59 Xmas Show Part 1
Music from:Tom Shad - A Podcast Christmas Theme
The Hot Rods - Dear Santa Claus
Cult Of Wedge - Exploiting
Christmas
Alison Crowe - In The Bleak Midwinter
Rag And Bone - Maria Daines
Lord Weatherby - Santa Claus Is Freaking
Me Out
Spoken Word:
Elvis McGonagall - Christmas In
The Country No.1 & No.2
Nic Treadwell - The
Parsons At Christmas (Part One)(bed music used on Parsons by Julie Melton - Silent Night / Doug Boldt - Deck The Halls With We Wish You A Merry Xmas
2006-12-2346 minHomegrownHomegrown Programme 29Dancing Shoes on for...
Music...
Andrew Stone - Understand
Listen With Sarah - My Crows Soft
Sounds
The Truth Hurts - What About Henry
Samba Mapangala & Orchestra Virunga
- Nyama Choma
Graham McClure - Grace
Trailer Star - Henrys
Night
Stillman - The Hand That Feeds
Poetry
Elvis McGonagall - I'm A
Believer
David Henry - The Old Breakwater
Mention in the programme -
Flying Shoes Radio
hosted by Shaun Belcher
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2006-05-2747 min