Podcast Episodes

December's Moments of the Month

From our December shows, here's a little taster of each episode so you can get a flavour of the things we got up to with our wonderful guests:

Doctor/Writer Adam Kay

Taskmaster star and stand-up Ani…

Published on 1 day, 3 hours ago

Rory Sutherland

Marketing expert and thinker-outside-the-box, Rory Sutherland is here with his Five Brilliant Things and they all begin with the letter C: Consumerism, Contradictions, Cars, Commuter Towns, Cornbread…

Published on 4 days, 3 hours ago

Russell's Best Bits of 2025

Happy Christmas!
This week Russell looks back over all of the shows from 2025 and picks his favourite moments from 52 x 5 Brilliant Things (So…quick bit of maths…that’s…260 Brilliant Things).
We’ll …

Published on 1 week, 4 days ago

Ross Noble

One of Britain’s most mercurial and naturally talented stand-ups of all time, Ross Noble sits down with Russell to explain how he went from a school drop-out with a couple of circus skills to one of …

Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Ania Magliano

Ania Magliano loves gossip, and she’s here to share some CHOICE cuts of the stuff. From Taskmaster, Stand-up Ania is in the studio and she’s running us through her favourite things which takes us on …

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

Adam Kay

Doctor, author, comedian, musician Adam Kay tells Russell about the things that he’s discovered that are brilliant. It’s a laugh-out-loud funny show that begins with a tale of conception, takes what …

Published on 1 month ago

November's Moments of the Month

Hello, here's a round up of the best bits from the last month of shows, featuring the fantastic comic Kerry Godliman (she's so funny), wine expert Tom Gilbey with a great story about Iron Maiden, dic…

Published on 1 month ago

Mo Amer

Palestinian-American stand-up sensation Mo Amer is here! He’s on a tour of Europe, he’s in the UK for a couple of days and he came into the studio to tell us all about his Five Brilliant Things and h…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Susie Dent

From Countdown's Dictionary Corner it’s Susie Dent! 

Susie is here with her Five Brilliant Things and they are as fascinating and vocabulary-expanding as you might hope; but it’s not all words, Susie…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Tom Gilbey

Wine Wine Wine! Tom Gilbey is one of the UK’s top wine experts and he also talks about it like a normal person! This podcast takes us through the things that makes a wine buff happy (some of them are…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago