64 episodes

You're the main character in a swashbuckling adventure movie; captured by the villain, you've been thrown into his dungeon. Your friends will spring you soon, but in the meantime you share your confinement with an odd character who's been there forever, sitting in a corner talking to himself in all sorts of funny voices, about all sorts of things. Paul Cromford is That Man. Please take him with you when you get rescued!

Any Fool Can..‪.‬ Paul Cromford

    • Society & Culture

You're the main character in a swashbuckling adventure movie; captured by the villain, you've been thrown into his dungeon. Your friends will spring you soon, but in the meantime you share your confinement with an odd character who's been there forever, sitting in a corner talking to himself in all sorts of funny voices, about all sorts of things. Paul Cromford is That Man. Please take him with you when you get rescued!

    Any Fool Can... Say Enough Is Enough

    Any Fool Can... Say Enough Is Enough

    Here's the latest instalment of Arthur Pendragon's modern-day saga 'The About Time Too King', in the final edition of Season Three.  I hope you've enjoyed, or got something, out of these podcasts; next year the story-strands ('King', 'Forever Blowing Bubbles', 'Mithered' and the Marriott & Pat series) will appear in a somewhat different format... but I don't know what that format is yet!  Keep an internet eye peeled for related news.

    Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.

    • 16 min
    Any Fool Can... Fall Into Assumptions

    Any Fool Can... Fall Into Assumptions

    For the penultimate edition of Season Three, I've thrown the spotlight on the podcast's theme music, which started life as a song by some daft brush named Cromford.  The song's called 'Tit For Tat' and the lyric is self-explanatory; if you hunt down the song on my website (paulcromford.com, 'Original Music and Lyrics') you can bounce a little mental blue ball along the words as they get sung.  Minutes of fun!

    • 5 min
    Any Fool Can... Play The Tribute Circuit

    Any Fool Can... Play The Tribute Circuit

    Continuing my tale of 'The About Time Too King' (Arthur Pendragon and his unlikely modern-day cohorts); in this instalment Merlin Pettifer makes a few 'phone calls... and several startling discoveries. Lend an ear to discover all.

    Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.

    • 16 min
    Any Fool Can... Be Right-On

    Any Fool Can... Be Right-On

    In this edition of AFC, I cock (what is for me) an overdue snook at such ultra-liberal conceits as cancel culture, gender fluidity and the extinction rebellion shower... and yes, I refuse to dignify the latter bunch with capital initials.  Aren't you tired of all the bullying, all that inflated sense of entitlement, all that hypersensitivity on behalf of unconsulted sections of society?  Don't you find all of that eagerness to Take Offence At Something deeply offensive in itself?  Yep, me too.

    • 7 min
    Any Fool Can... Suffer With Their Ears

    Any Fool Can... Suffer With Their Ears

    Beginning a continuation of my story-strand concerning Arthur Pendragon and his uphill preparations to defend 21st-century England against her deadliest-ever danger... whatever that might prove to be.  To recap this story, see the following episodes in AFC Season Two: "...Pine For Chivalry" (2:10), "...Scoff At Reincarnation" (2:12) and "...Talk The Talk" (2:24).

    Characters and sketches © 2020-21 Paul Cromford (me); the author (me again) hereby asserts his moral rights to ownership of same.

    • 17 min
    Any Fool Can... Give Themselves Away

    Any Fool Can... Give Themselves Away

    Ringo wanted to stay with an octopus, George wanted to pay a bit less tax, John wanted his mother, and Paul... what did Paul really really want?  This edition of 'Any Fool Can...' suggests our Paulie wanted to be something rather less salubrious than a writer of paperbacks.  Get the lowdown here!

    • 6 min

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