300 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
    • 4.8 • 5.2K Ratings

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

    #319 - Baddies on the Beach, 5 Live At 30 and Thank God for Zabaleta

    #319 - Baddies on the Beach, 5 Live At 30 and Thank God for Zabaleta

    5 Live is 30 Years Old. A milestone indeed but it makes the station even more criminally young than our presenters. So Elis and John celebrate by looking back at the history of the UK's favourite (and potentially only) dedicated news and sport station.
    We also chat to an adamantly Dave-shunning David, and John, much to everyone's shock, pokes holes in a Made Up Game... which was created by an 11-year-old.
    If you want to get in touch with the show about anything whatsoever then email elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 07974 293 022

    • 1 hr 16 min
    #318 - Chieveley James, Project Digital Life and The More The Murrayer

    #318 - Chieveley James, Project Digital Life and The More The Murrayer

    John Robins is an analogue guy. There's no one on earth whose life is more dictated by paper than he. So today John digs into his worst nightmare: 'the cloud'.
    The boys also hear from a listener who had a podcast-adjacent brush with death and there's more sausage while you wait chat.
    If you want to get in touch with the show then email elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 07974 293 022

    • 57 min
    #317 - Tasting Collapse, Ken Coe and James Hoffmann

    #317 - Tasting Collapse, Ken Coe and James Hoffmann

    Never has the mood at Elis and John HQ been more nervous or excitable. For it is a momentous day. The Hoff himself, coffee expert and YouTuber James Hoffman, is on the show. And the boys have as many questions as there are beans in the world.
    And more importantly we'll find out, under Espresso making levels of pressure, who definitively makes the best coffee as judged by the coffee king him sen.
    If you want to get in touch with the show then email elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 07974 293 022

    • 1 hr 20 min
    #316 - Terrace Fashion Week, Too Much Pastry and Stopping At Heston

    #316 - Terrace Fashion Week, Too Much Pastry and Stopping At Heston

    Have you ever wondered how our hosts would fare as children’s podcast presenters? Well thanks to today’s fun and games, now we know! And it’s as fascinating as you’d imagine.
    Elsewhere, Producer Dave tries to single-handedly bring down the state secondary school education system, and in what is surely a digital first, the team discuss which celebrities look the cleanest.

    • 1 hr 2 min
    #315 - The Tap Scene, Spanish Deception and Cheaper Derby

    #315 - The Tap Scene, Spanish Deception and Cheaper Derby

    We’re a month into the Great Reset and Elis and John are so into the swing of things that they’re practically Tarzan and Jane swinging through the Digital Jungle. John is Tarzan due to his ripped physique and long arms suitable for vine grabbing. Elis is Jane due to his dainty disposition and ability to flutter his eyelashes.
    And the boys’ suitably good form provides a backdrop to a (quite literally) dream game, a wild inductee to the 80 Daves pantheon and the thoughts of being lowered six feet under to daytime TV themes.

    • 1 hr 11 min
    #314 - King Kia, Three Course Curry and Cow Pat PR

    #314 - King Kia, Three Course Curry and Cow Pat PR

    Today Elis and John are at one with nature. (No, not in a sexy way Producer Dave). They're surviving not only the rigours of a podcast-first approach but today are prepared for much more. The smoke signals are going up. The salmon ponassed. All are braced in the bivouac for a very special surprise.
    Once we've left the wilderness behind, Elis gets a right rollocking over his distaste of a high camp staple, we get an incredible insight into the diet of a mid-tier Crossfitter and we bid adieu to a key crew member of the good ship Elis and John.

    • 1 hr 8 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
5.2K Ratings

5.2K Ratings

Sfre86 ,

Joy to listen to

I love these three, lots of fun, laughs and like a conversational hug in your ears.

titan923 ,

Love these three!

I’ve been a PCD almost from the very start, love them in any format.

Gaia Manning ,

Missing the live vibe

Elis and John do all they can with the format assigned to them, but BBC have really missed a trick with making it a podcast format only. If you want more of them, give them two live slots! This format does nothing for them, I’m really missing the silliness, time pressure, frantic mistake rectification and managing call ins and live tweets. Hopefully it settles and they find their feet, but it feels as though they were just getting into it before the format changed. Give them more live air time!

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