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Adrian Edmondson remembers laughing and laughing and laughing with his friend and collaborator Rik Mayall, on Desert Island Discs with Lauren Laverne in September 2023.
This moment has been nominated in the Radio Academy Arias Awards 2024 for Moment of the Year.
Listen on BBC Sounds https://bbc.in/3W3uXXU
🐟 What's your top Monty Python moment?
Sir Michael Palin talks to John Wilson about his life as an actor, comedian and presenter and reveals his creative influences.
This Cultural Life. Listen on BBC Sounds https://bbc.in/3VV564f
#comedy #biography #LifeStory #art #culture #television #MontyPython #influences #BritishComedy #funny
📚 Every year the big dictionary publishers decide on the year's most important word. This year's Oxford Word of the Year is 'Rizz'.
Word of Mouth is a podcast about language and how it evolves, presented by poet and educator Michael Rosen.
There are over 250 episodes on BBC Sounds, covering every aspect of language - from chatbots to 'goblin mode' to Shakespeare to sci-fi to Yiddish to apostrophes…
#WOTY #etymology #language #English #usage #communication #dictionary
🍄 ☕️ Is there some mushroom coffee in your cupboard?
🤔 In the last of the current series of Sliced Bread, Greg Foot investigates the fungi-fuelled trend for coffees, teas, even hot chocolates, that contain so called “medicinal mushrooms” - the likes of Reishi, Cordyceps, Chaga or Lion’s Mane.
Are they the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS?
Sliced Bread, on BBC Sounds.
https://bbc.in/3vJw7wG
#nutrition #fungi #mushroom #health #coffee #product #Reishi #Cordyceps #Chaga #LionsMane
Uncanny is BACK… And we’re going on a roadtrip.
Danny Robins will be criss-crossing America, from New York to New Orleans, to interview witnesses about experiences that seem to defy logical explanation, with help from a new team of US paranormal experts and sceptics.
Uncanny USA, on BBC Sounds
https://bbc.in/3xZDPn7
#spooky #uncanny #paranormal #haunting #scary #ghost #unexplained #podcast #investigation
💬 "In March 2020 the information system for dealing with Covid was; I would wheel in a whiteboard and grab a marker and Simon Stephens would read out from scraps of paper, faxes that he'd got from the NHS…" - Dominic Cummings interviewed on Helen Lewis has Left the Chat, on BBC Sounds.
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