The Pains Stains & Automobiles podcast can always be relied upon for mature and sensible discussion…

Latest episode of the podcast out today, with guest Ian Hislop. Pains Stains & Automobiles, wherever you get your podcasts.

Action woman Anneka Rice reveals her muse in the Pains Stains & Automobiles podcast.

Trump, Starmer and Jimmy Kimmel - are amongst the subjects NOT discussed in the latest episode of our podcast. For a very different Special Relationship …. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

We’re back for more! Episode 2 of the new podcast emerged, blinking, into the daylight, this morning. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p....

New podcast - episode 1 out today! If what’s been missing from your life is two old chums rabbiting on, pine no more. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Rode the New York subway today, surrounded by characters who looked like they belonged in The Sopranos. One with sausage fingers, a huge guy with a bald head and stary eyes and one I didn’t dare look at, but he was probably the clean-up guy.

Looks like competition for the services of those declared useless by Musk ….

Washington DC laid on a nice welcome for us….

New episode of my podcast Trash Talk with Count Binface is up now! Wherever you get your podcasts, naturally. With special guest @charlesnove.bsky.social Get it in your ears here! podfollow.com/trash-talk-w...

Amazing who you see making an unannounced visit to London’s West End

These have arrived! - the finished, hardback copies of a little book I've written about the joyfully unpredictable experience of producing Father Ted. Publication is Feb 20th but I'd like to give away two copies early - RT by Saturday 6pm and my dog Watson will pick the winners.

Plans to cut audio drama from BBC Radio 3 have been labelled a “devastating loss for writers and actors alike”, with critics calling it the end of the “National Theatre of the airwaves” 👇 www.thestage.co.uk/news/cuts-to...

Back on concert hosting duty tonight. How anyone gets a reliable tune out of these is a mystery to me!

In London to host a concert. My dressing room is equipped with a piano and a 4 volume encyclopaedia of Opera. If only I could play or sing…..

Amazon’s Christmas Day recommendation for me? Replacement wire for a strimmer. Because nothing says Christmas quite like a strimmer, obviously. 🤷

This card, from friends who had no idea about our current battle to reclaim the loft from meeces, couldn’t have been more appropriate!

https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-copyrighted-material-parliament Hey, I have an idea for a non-viable business too, can I lobby the government to change the laws so I too can rip off other peoples’ hard work?

Spotify tells me I’ve used it to listen to 498 songs this year “and one song over and over and over again”! Sounds a bit judgmental….

A great project - I’m delighted to make a few of these appear during the Screentime section of my breakfast show on Magic Classical.

On awards-show duty in London tonight, and the Christmas grotto feel is all around

Good morning, from the East Midlands branch of Magic Classical! Live on the radio til 10.