About this podcast
Hilarious revelations from a new generation of sinners, willing to share their secrets in search of forgiveness with Father Simon and the Confessional Collective. Expect tales of greed, debauchery, deception, and honest mistakes including those confessions we could never broadcast on Greatest Hits Radio.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 146 episodes
- Red, Gold and Green & other tales · 41 min · Season 8 Episode 11Step into the confessional with Simon Mayo and the Confessions Collective, as Halloween looms and the nation’s trick-or-treat etiquette comes under serious (and slightly…
- Pick a pocket or two & other tales · 39 min · Season 8 Episode 10Step into the confessional with Simon Mayo and the collective for another allegedly coherent episode. Bev relives a mixed-hockey tournament pool night in Wakefield, then it’s…
- Cluedo Special - Confessions from the Crypt · 38 min · Season 8 Episode 9It’s a very, very special edition of Simon Mayo’s Confessions… a Cluedo special. Five classic confessions are reopened from the crypt, featuring suspicious behaviour on quiet…
- Size of a cow & other tales · 40 min · Season 8 Episode 8Step into the confessional with Simon Mayo and the Confessions Collective. Mike takes us back to 1971, where a cow’s eye from biology class ends up hiding under a canteen lettuce…
- There's no one quite like grandma & other tales · 42 min · Season 8 Episode 7Step into the confessional with Simon Mayo, Sister Holly, Sister Suzi and Brother Matthew for Episode 7 of Season 8… and yes, the numbering is definitely, probably, completely…
- Welcome to the lion’s den & other tales · 39 min · Season 8 Episode 6It’s a distinctly international trip into the confessional this week with Simon Mayo and the Confessions Collective. Craig kicks things off from behind the pharmacy counter in…
- Bad to the bone & other tales · 43 min · Season 8 Episode 5Episode five of Season Eight drops Simon Mayo and the Confessions Collective back into the confessional for more chaos, dodgy logic, and the kind of stories that definitely…
- Welcome to the house of fun & other tales · 41 min · Season 8 Episode 4Step into the confessional with Simon Mayo and the Confessions Collective for another fresh batch of chaos, questionable life choices, and very loud studio drinks. Karen takes…
- Toads in your bed and pepper in your tea & other tales · 47 min · Season 8 Episode 3Episode three of Season Eight sees Simon Mayo and the Confessions Collective back in the studio for more chaos, coat chat, and questionable decision-making. First: a “guilty and…
- This is the time for action & other tales · 42 min · Season 8 Episode 2Step into the confessional with Simon Mayo and the Confessions Collective for another fresh batch of confessions. Alf takes us to South Africa’s “Valley of a Thousand Hills” for…
- Right on baby & other tales · 39 min · Season 8 Episode 1Step into the confessional with Simon Mayo and the Holy Collective as Season Eight kicks off — minus Brother Matt, who’s apparently busy in his orangery. First up, a “medical…
- Every grain of sand & other tales · 48 min · Season 7 Episode 49Step into the confessional with Simon Mayo and the Confessions Collective for cassette-tape sabotage, 80s vanity, and a honeymoon story you can’t un-hear. “Timothy” takes…
- Beach baby & other tales · 45 min · Season 7 Episode 48Step into the confessional with Simon Mayo and the Holy collective. We start with a World Cup watch party that turns into the most awkward buffet raid imaginable.. Storm Doris…
- Confessions from the Crypt Special · 27 min · Season 7 Episode 47Step into the confessional with Simon Mayo and the Confessions Collective for another “Confessions from the Crypt” special — lock the doors and grab your torch. Maria Callas…
- There she goes & other tales · 43 min · Season 7 Episode 46Step into the confessional with Simon Mayo and the Confessions Collective for 80s burger-van feuds, a keyboard prank that goes wildly “professional”, and a revenge plot involving…
- He’ll have to go & other tales · 41 min · Season 7 Episode 45Step into the confessional with Simon Mayo and the Confessions Collective for RAF police “Batmobile” patrols that terrorise midnight Cluedo players… and accidentally spotlight…
- You’ve been, you’ve been thunderstruck & other tales · 38 min · Season 7 Episode 44Step into the confessional with Simon Mayo and the Confessions Collective for sibling “rugby practice” that ends in A&E, a holiday comeback that goes painfully wrong, a Dolly…
- In through the out door & other tales · 43 min · Season 7 Episode 43Step into the confessional with Simon Mayo and the Collective for exam cheating in a lucky jumper, a welding lesson that goes catastrophically… south, and a nursing “snapshot”…
- Oh! This is the greatest show & other tales · 40 min · Season 7 Episode 42Step into the confessional with Simon Mayo and the Confessions Collective for naked ramblers, dodgy “shampoo”, and a circus moment nobody in grey trousers will ever forget…
- Hello clouds, hello sky & other tales · 43 min · Season 7 Episode 41Step into the confessional with Father Simon and the Collective for a police mishap, a fishing adventure, a boarding school caper and a teacher prank. First Joe DiMaggio has an…
