352 episodes

Join the UK's youngest and most relevant broadcasters Elis James and John Robins for your twice-weekly dose of big laughs and top quality #content. Hilarious, welcoming and unashamedly ashamed, let these two best friends keep you company every Tuesday and Friday.
Email: elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk
WhatsApp: 07974293022
#elisandjohn

Elis James and John Robins BBC Radio 5 Live

    • Comedy

Join the UK's youngest and most relevant broadcasters Elis James and John Robins for your twice-weekly dose of big laughs and top quality #content. Hilarious, welcoming and unashamedly ashamed, let these two best friends keep you company every Tuesday and Friday.
Email: elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk
WhatsApp: 07974293022
#elisandjohn

    #345 - Burdening Burden, The Ultimate Head and A Dizzy at Tebay

    #345 - Burdening Burden, The Ultimate Head and A Dizzy at Tebay

    Move over Geraint Thomas, there are some new Welsh thighs on the cycling scene. Elis’s heroic cycle ride to Brighton is picked over and analysed, as is his newfound insatiable appetite, and his muscle-related chat that bores a fellow 5 Live presenter.
    In a surprising turn of events we also get one step closer to identifying the graffiti artist Banksy, we hear from a listener who has the ‘ultimate head’, and the Petty Parliament moves ever closer to the autocracy we all feared it could become.
    If you want to get in touch with the show then email elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 07974 293 022.

    • 1 hr 6 min
    #344 - Generation Bodge Job, The Thinking Drinker’s Degree, and A Wazzaaa of Crosbys

    #344 - Generation Bodge Job, The Thinking Drinker’s Degree, and A Wazzaaa of Crosbys

    If podcasts were countries, and episodes were drivers, then this iteration of Elis and John would be covering a hell of a lot of ground. One minute it’s loco coco dads, the next it’s a deep dive into the Gibraltar national football team. And between them you’ve got shy builders, biro yachts, and a cappella jingles.
    Solving your dilemmas has become one of our main priorities, and this week is no different. Matthew Crosby is on hand to help a band member in need, where for some reason the question ‘do you want to be a slimy juggler’ is part of the solution.
    Keen to share something with the BBC’s youngest broadcasters? Send us an email today on elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk, or WhatsApp the show on 07974 293 022.

    • 1 hr 19 min
    #343 - Baff, Mooch Ma Mooch and Higs Higs Higs Higs Higs

    #343 - Baff, Mooch Ma Mooch and Higs Higs Higs Higs Higs

    Elis is hoisted by his own genetic petard today. For he and Isy have combined to create the perfect journalistic lampooner. And he has nowhere to hide.
    Amidst such blindsiding, the idea of John at a music festival paints a vivid picture and we hear of 2kg of coffee bean consumption to prove a point.
    Get involved with the show via email on elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk. Whether it’s your Shames, Mad Dads or Made Up Games. You can also reach the boys on WhatsApp on 07974 293 022. Just save the number in your phone contacts and it should then show on the app.

    • 1 hr 16 min
    #342 - Great Articles Going Unwritten, The Scottish Experience and Good & Long

    #342 - Great Articles Going Unwritten, The Scottish Experience and Good & Long

    The Euros are kicking off but Elis is sad. Because due to penalties, rather than being on the lash with the lads and girls of Swansea, Rhyl and Pontypridd, he’s in a studio in London. But that’s not to say he can’t have a ruddy good time with his less Welsh pals.
    And they get down to some right old fun. Producer Dave doesn’t have faith in a temporary sporting feature resurrection due to ‘topicality in a pre-recorded landscape’ and one third of the greatest beans on Earth (excluding Sean Bean) joins to solve a dilemma.
    What’s the means of contacting us with your great and good correspondence, chat and musings? Well it’s mailto:elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk of course. Or it’s WhatsApp on 07974 293 022 or whack it in a St Bernard’s barrel and send them on their way.

    • 57 min
    #341 - Calippolitical, Italia ’90 Games and Eating Bao Buns in Complete Silence

    #341 - Calippolitical, Italia ’90 Games and Eating Bao Buns in Complete Silence

    We’re heading towards quite frankly Australian levels of being rattled on today’s Made Up Game as another game format comes under the microscope of two players who simply want to be given the win.
    Elis is also distracted by the past - shock - and Producer Dave actually wants the boys to get *more* political?! A bold move given the ‘Secretary of State for Getting Ready For The Weekend’s’ role as de-politiciser in chief.
    Throw your stories and feature contributions our way at elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk. Or 07974 293 022 on WhatsApp if you’re living in the 23rd century.

    • 1 hr 3 min
    #340 - Bog Body Ready, Long Haul Phaal and Nish Kumar

    #340 - Bog Body Ready, Long Haul Phaal and Nish Kumar

    Today’s show is a titanic showdown between two arch-nemeses. It’s Disraeli against Gladstone, it’s David versus Goliath, it’s The Rumble in the Jungle; it’s Elis James facing up to his footballing rival Nish Kumar. Sparks fly, scores are settled, and a listener’s dilemma is answered (sort of) in the process.
    It’s also an episode that seeks to teach as well as entertain. And if learning that we should be writing big messages on big melons isn’t enough education for you, we’re not sure what is. Plus, Britain’s youngest broadcasters lament the clothing choices of their fellow young people.
    Keep your scintillating messages of mad daddery, eating challenge crazies, and everything in between coming in to elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk or on WhatsApp on 07974 293 022

    • 59 min

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