About this podcast
A weekly free taster of the Listen & Often podcast, with one full episode every month
Episodes
The newest 20 of 67 episodes
- Season 2 News · 22 minHi all, Season 2 of the podcast will run from Nov 13 2026 - Jan 1 2027. You can find Listen & Often on any podcast provider. You presumably already know that our first limited…
- This Puppy Could Play for Australia · 16 minIn the last episode of Season One, Anna finally produces, as she has threatened so often, the Worst Ever Answer; there is diet news from Kilburn; there is a Snake Goddess and a…
- Heeeeere's Krangela! · 22 minLike Netflix asked, we start with Chapter Two of Krangela; also Lego Robot Wars News; sad poems by England Footballers; and do sharks want what we want? This is the free feed…
- We Now Call Our Kettle Thorbignag · 15 minEngland's Writer in Residence sends news from a real heat dome! Is it unwise to let a seven-year-old babysit your triplets?! Is eating people wrong? This podcast was recorded…
- Clone Your Own Billionaire! · 14 minGareth Edwards tries to explain how come such a high percentage of L&O's hosts have broken their greater tuberosities since we got going? Post hoc ergo propter hoc? Also, Matthew…
- We Are Too Hot for Our Pants!* · 50 minAnna's mum's dog is a spy! Oberon is the kind of harsh but decisive ruler we crave during a debilitating heatwave! Moira starts to wonder if there is a problem with twitter! This…
- Do You Want the Bad News, James Pond? Or the Really Bad News? · 18 minGareth Edwards did not 'have a fall', whatever the nice young lady who helped him thinks. James Pond has not been drunkenly stockpiling Pelotons just because he fancies the…
- Listen & Often Takes on the Sorting Hat · 15 minBenet Brandreth travels America with a film star and a cat; Agatha Maud is a grown-up; some people are Too Sensible for Love; and MORE... This is the shortened version of our…
- James Pond Was Getting Married! · 13 minMike Westcott is back with news from the RLWU (Robot Lego Wars Universe). David Mitchell, Tamsin Greig, Rosie Holt and Clare Foster have licence to krill in James Pond. Also…
- By Timothy! That Runner's in the Nip! · 48 minAnna Savory has seen the light, and the light says, 'Don't wear clothes'. Also, inter-continental custody battles, hot opera, sad songs and the longest chorus line on Broadway…
- Two Steps Forward, Dig an Imaginary Grave... · 8 minWe have Anna in Ballet! Matthew Parker Goes on the Run with Some Bankrobbing Nuns! And we all know that the truth lies in between, but in between what?! This is a taster for our…
- The Devil Incarnates as a Camel, Then... · 15 minGhosts in love! Devils in love! The Difference between us and the US, and it's not politics! Also, a Fight Song! Also, crucially, some BAD INFORMATION. As trailed last week, we…
- What Are You Going to Do Differently This Time? · 10 minGareth Edwards plans his dream restaurant; the first series of Mike Westcott's Young Worker's Quickstart Scheme comes to a bloody end; Unlikely Puns; AND MORE... This is our free…
- The Man Who Mooned the Pope · 15 minAnna Savory is a labrador truther; terrible news for Agatha Maud; Belly of the Year; and an artichoke game that will one day be taught in schools... This is our free feed - we'd…
- Happy Birthday, Listen & Often! Stephen Brown Has Come Bearing Gifts... · 57 minAmong this week's animals are nematodes, tardigrades and an ageing badger that is NOTHING LIKE Gareth Edwards. Also, Susannah Pearse leads us boldly into a future in which…
- The £400,000 Keyring and Other Lessons from Economic History · 17 minSmall business adventures with Anna Savory. Further economic insights from the nightclubs of the footballer belt. Aristocratic nature notes. The last potatoes on earth. This is…
- Don't Buy the ToastMax 3000! · 14 minMike Westcott is eating through the world, Anna Savory is moving out of Kent and we explore the legendary longest tunnel in Dorset, as well as giving valuable advice if you are…
- James Pond Had Been Crying for Six Minutes · 13 minIt's time for James Pond, Episode 2: Patagonia, with David Mitchell, Tamsin Greig, Claire Foster and Rosie Holt. But more than that, it's horses week on Listen and Often, with…
- Wine Trebuchet · 51 minGareth Edwards joins us for the Series One Finale of Mike Westcott's Young Workfinders' Quickstart Scheme, and then tries to imagine his way into the minds of Midsomer's funniest…
- The Whirligig of Time · 12 minA new joke gets a passing grade, but it needs work. We face up to the fact that some people in our social circles are just horrible. And we look at how history shows that…
