

Elis James and John Robins
BBC Radio 5 Live
Join the UK's youngest and most relevant broadcasters Elis James and John Robins for your twice-weekly dose of big laughs and top quality #content.Hilarious, welcoming and unashamedly ashamed, let these two best friends keep you company every Tuesday and Friday.Listen to the Elis James and John Robins podcast every Tuesday and Friday on BBC Sounds.Email: elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk
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Apr 19, 2024 • 59min
#326 - Chiles Parsnips, Elis St. John, and Superfruit Cigs
What do the blue touch paper and the switchboards have in common? They’ve both been lit, that’s what. Elis and John have been inundated with some of our greatest set of emails EVER! And in that the models flow in like it's fashion week; from snacks to footwear, from 1940s yearning women to teenage graffitiing delinquents. This episode has them all.Elsewhere, things get racy, Elis’s newfound gym buff status comes under heavy fire, and John is rocked to his very core by some news at Junction 16 on the M4.If you want to get in touch with the show then email elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 07974 293 022

Apr 16, 2024 • 1h 18min
#325 - Taut John, Cake In Your Wallet and Joanne McNally
Once the Welsh football media spring dries up Elis needs a retirement plan. Thanks to his dashing good looks there is only one viable alternative: international modelling. The boys thus get the lowdown on all things posing from the most handsome man they've ever chatted to.We also play a Made Up Game where Elis is restricted to levels previously unexperienced and we've got two of the masters of tasks in the studio today.If you want to get in touch with the show then here's how: elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 07974 293 022

Apr 12, 2024 • 1h 8min
#324 - Blancmange Bullying, The Custard Slice Scene, and Run to Win and Hate Yourself
If this show doesn’t become the go-to running podcast of 2024, we’re not sure what will. For all the on-foot 'experts' pumping out mid-level content NONE of them will cover big bones, being overtaken by your mum or exercising your big toes.But fear not, it’s not all the 'Pounding the P-odcast'. Elis takes to the metaphorical Mastermind chair in a grilling that he was born to do and the boys finally speak to a mythical figure.If you want to get in touch with the show then email elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 07974 293 022

Apr 9, 2024 • 1h 21min
#323 - Fleet McWrap, Handsome Turf and George Kink Lads Only
Tuesdays used to mean the odd Champions League fixture and Holby City. Now they mean podcasts. More specifically this one, and on today's show a giddiness has descended on the studio. The boys are dreaming of things they could do and places they could go for the show: Barbados, a trip to Europe's largest folk museum, or "wearing unitards and beating each other up" are all equally exciting and viable options.Elsewhere there's a sexy Shame and we may even get a sequel to "It Floats Ladies".If you want to get in touch with the show then email elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 07974 293 022

Apr 5, 2024 • 50min
#322 - Specs Appeal, Virgil van Dave, and Toilets At Dench
Elis and John discuss the new fashion icon in glasses, with Robins leading the charge. Elis gets spotted modeling in Paris. The hosts joke about naming service stations and share a hilarious listener anecdote. The conversation also covers unicycling and coolness.

Apr 2, 2024 • 1h 11min
#321 - Psychic Cats, Second Rate Roses and Out of Riff Ammo
The lovely Lou Sanders is in the studio and brings along her wonderfully chaotic aura.Oh and it's dead bus-eh. There's another hands on Made Up Game, Lou's not getting any traction on her socials and a caller deals out not just one but TWO harrowing stories.If you want to get in touch with the show about anything whatsoever then email elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 07974 293 022

Mar 29, 2024 • 1h 2min
#320 - The Testosterone Twins, Three Shirt Robins and Restless Irritable Discontented
It’s a two hander today as John and Dave fly solo. But that isn’t to say that we’re not bursting at the seams with top stuff.There’s more cloud developments, John reflects on sobriety nearly a year on from his How Do You Cope chat with Elis, and the brief to wish 5 Live a Happy Birthday is broadly fulfilled.It’s elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 07974 293 022 for all your bits.

Mar 26, 2024 • 1h 16min
#319 - Baddies on the Beach, 5 Live At 30 and Thank God for Zabaleta
5 Live is 30 Years Old. A milestone indeed but it makes the station even more criminally young than our presenters. So Elis and John celebrate by looking back at the history of the UK's favourite (and potentially only) dedicated news and sport station.We also chat to an adamantly Dave-shunning David, and John, much to everyone's shock, pokes holes in a Made Up Game... which was created by an 11-year-old.If you want to get in touch with the show about anything whatsoever then email elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 07974 293 022

Mar 22, 2024 • 58min
#318 - Chieveley James, Project Digital Life and The More The Murrayer
John Robins is an analogue guy. There's no one on earth whose life is more dictated by paper than he. So today John digs into his worst nightmare: 'the cloud'.The boys also hear from a listener who had a podcast-adjacent brush with death and there's more sausage while you wait chat.If you want to get in touch with the show then email elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 07974 293 022

Mar 19, 2024 • 1h 21min
#317 - Tasting Collapse, Ken Coe and James Hoffmann
Never has the mood at Elis and John HQ been more nervous or excitable. For it is a momentous day. The Hoff himself, coffee expert and YouTuber James Hoffman, is on the show. And the boys have as many questions as there are beans in the world.And more importantly we'll find out, under Espresso making levels of pressure, who definitively makes the best coffee as judged by the coffee king him sen.If you want to get in touch with the show then email elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 07974 293 022