An unfortunate email preview. I think they're thinking of the sprouts?

Why is GARLIC so globally popular? 🧄 #AnswerMeThis

Forty years ago today, Microsoft released Windows 1.0, making it possible to look at a Word document AND a frozen edition of Paint simultaneously

Learning CPR was surprisingly physically challenging!

The BBC still owes me £300 from 2022. If they don't pay me by Friday, I will be suing them for $1 billion

Today #SesameStreet returns to our (Netflix) screens, so we consider the impact the show has had on changing the world...

Just heard the sad news about Quentin Willson, whom I met on a family holiday when I was 17. As he was the only person I knew who worked in telly, after my A-Levels I asked him some advice...

🫢am going to assume nobody Googled this phrase before sticking it in the Marks & Spencer Christmas catalogue ...

Every UK radio station news bulletin today: "The time has come to listen to victims." Every UK radio station playlist today: "It's Halloween! Let's play Thriller by Michael Jackson"

Did people REALLY used to sleep sitting up?! A brief history of beds 🛏️ - from ep411 of "Answer Me This!" 👉 answermethispodcast.com

Matthew Cordle killed a man whilst drink-driving. He then confessed to the crime on YouTube. Twelve years later, after serving time in prison, he talks to me on 'The Modern Mann' about remorse, rehabilitaton - and what it means to take responsibility. 🎧 pod.fo/e/33b3f9

I can't quite believe it, but it's been ten years since we began The Modern Mann. Even in 2015, we knew that a magazine programme was, in essence, an anti-internet idea. But it's even more so now, in a world where increasing numbers of people think of 'podcasts' as celebrity videos on Instagram...

Tenth anniversary edition of The Modern Mann coming up tonight... In the meantime, Captain Spronk has been at the AI again 🙈 soundcloud.com/ollie-peart/...

Elastica, comedy focus groups and the complex legacy of Beadle's About: here's my delightful natter with Dom Joly about the 25th anniversary of Trigger Happy TV👇 (begins at 2hr8min): 🎧 www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2... @realdomjoly.bsky.social

Bumped into a couple of podcasters, what are the chances

Charlie Brown, 75 today? Talk about unrealistic ageing goals.

Can't help but feel Hemel Hempstead is tempting fate with this slogan

Slightly shocked by this announcement, as in, I didn't know there wasn't already a library in every primary school. Never seen one without one!

Informing Helen and Martin about the absolute worst thing to befall Britain since they emigrated #WHSmith

Catch up with today's show: www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2... Neil is on from 02:35:36 #NeilHannon #TheDivineComedy @ollymann.bsky.social @listentotimesradio.bsky.social

What an ace trio of guests in today's 'culture hour': Nigel Planer, John Suchet & Neil Hannon! I adored chatting to them all; you can listen back on the free Times Radio app by tapping on today's Drive show in 'catch up' and then fast-forwarding to the final hour...

Since much of the purpose of the UK recognising Palestine today is about message signalling, I'm curious about the word 'inalienable' in the PM's statement. Do most people know for sure what it means? How strong a statement is it if you have to Google it?

Oh God I am interviewing Neil Hannon tomorrow, it's too much I won't sleep

Times Radio are marking my stint hosting Drive this weekend with my sexy new Blue Steel headshot (by Chris McAndrew). It's a look that says, "I will genially yet sceptically guide you through the news, whilst covering my belly fat".

Hard to be certain but it's just possible that the cars we feature in this months Modern Mann may be *even more* glamorous than us...

Rose West, Ian Huntley, Harold Shipman, Gary Glitter, phone hacking, the Libor scandal, Wagatha Christie... Priscilla has sketched them all! 🎧 The Modern Mann 👇 www.modernmann.co.uk/new/priscilla

Priscilla Coleman has been sketching criminal trials for five decades, sitting ten feet away from the likes of Rose West, Ian Huntley, Harold Shipman and Gary Glitter. She's covered phone hacking, the Libor scandal, Wagatha Christie... It was a pleasure to meet her for this month's 'The Modern Mann'

Interesting to contrast the UK - where within 48 hours a Deputy PM has lost her job after admitting she should have paid a bit more in stamp duty - with the US, where Trump spent 6 weeks in court, was found unanimously guilty of falsifying business records & then became President

"Angela Rayner is talking to HMRC to work out exactly what tax she owes" Should have an answer in about nineteen months, then.

avoid the Drivetime show on Times Radio this weekend if you can't abide this schmuck

9am and I am watching a Snoopy musical because Ben Folds

oh fuck I've started listening to Radio 3

Fresh off a conference call with Helen Zaltzman and pleased to report we have a new Squarespace song about anal bleaching

Did NASA sell its soul to Elon Musk? Writer Franklin Foer traces the downfall of the storied space agency in this article from @theatlantic.com. Listen to the entire piece, read by @ollymann.bsky.social: share.harkaudio.com/j5pM1ftN8iRS...

When my 4yo ruined my one and only trip to Soho Farmhouse 🙈

Ten years ago, I met up with Tom Price, Stuart Goldsmith and some microphones to document our impending individual journeys into fatherhood. We've met up every year since (the latest instalment of 'How To Be A Dad' has just landed on The Modern Mann pod-feed).

What is the POINT of a tiara? @helenzaltzman.bsky.social & I discuss in the AMT 408, on your podfeeds now: 🎧 pod.fo/e/306d0e

Pray for Big Ears 🙏 #bekonscot

My kids take very little interest in my work but they appear to have developed a game called 'Tickle Me This!' 🙈

Just one of those 'casual' chats when you're assembled alongside your foes and your friend leans over you with briefing notes

Arion is back from Oz for a Summer holiday - so this week The Retrospectors took the opportunity to leave our microphones at home, and meet up in actual REAL LIFE. (Fun fact: we had fish and chips in a coaching inn which has existed on the present site since 1688. HISTORY NEVER RESTS.)

Overheard just now in H&M St Albans: teenage girl holding up an £8 garment to show her mum, said, "Look! Eight bucks!" Fear this could kick-start biggest crisis of national identity since Brexit.

Every man in Britain right now

My cousin, Perry, was in a catastrophic plane crash when he was 13 years old. Although I'd heard flashes of the story before - the RAF warplane he was in, the burns he endured to nearly half his body - it's amazing how, by turning up to his house with a microphone, I suddenly had license to ask.

On your marks! 🏃 Get set! 👟 The July episode of The Modern Mann is GO🏅

Universal Studios... Bedford? Check out my four-part series, 'Rollercoaster: Universal's Bedfordshire Journey' now on BBC Sounds

😬 Have you been using the phrase 'The Great White Hope' without knowing context? Me too. Its origins are a heavyweight boxing match today in history in 1910 between Jack Johnson (black), and James Jeffries (white).

10 years ago today, the internet lost its shit about the killing of Cecil The Lion 🦁 On 'Today In History with the Retrospectors', I reflect on how it became such a massive viral moment 📈 🎧 podfollow.com/retrospector... #CecilTheLion

How do LOBSTERS mate? 🦞 Helen explains all in AMT 407... #AnswerMeThis @helenzaltzman.bsky.social | @martinaustwick.bsky.social 🎧 answermethispodcast.com/2025/06/26/e...

Every time I sleep with Ollie Peart, he takes refuge in bloody VR. Am starting to take it personally now... 🎧 www.modernmann.co.uk/new/divorce