My many audio adventures have billowed and blossomed over the years since I started this website, so I may as well have one place to bring the best of it all together. First of all, of course, all my books are available on Audible here, and may soon be on other audio platforms as well… 

Then there’s my Youtube page, which has all sorts of clips and audio offerings, including Brother Bernard’s morning on Cerys Matthews’ BBC 6music show, but as I’ve been called upon to play the comedy/folklore/history expert dozens of times on BBC local radio, be it Shropshire, Bristol, Cambridge or wherever. I should upload one or two of those some time… Plus there’s also my Soundcloud, still full of noises I have made from Glastonbury to Georgia USA, yeeears out of date though it now is…

But you’d be surprised at how much ‘stuff’ sticks to the BBC iPlayer even years after broadcast, like my full Comedy Club interview with the great Arthur Smith to mark the release of Soupy Twists…

Then there’s also the two Radio 4 Archive shows I was proud to be involved in, for the 50th anniversary of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, and Annie Nightingale’s swansong, Age of Irreverence, a muse on comedy and rock and roll where I was proud to act as her right-hand man.

Then there was the time the great conservationist Mark Carwardine nominated his old pal Douglas Adams for Radio 4’s Great Lives programme, and I was drafted in to stand for Douglas himself. In truth, this was one of the most excruciating experiences of my professional life, all down to the presenter, who Mark and I agreed seemed determined to make us both as uncomfortable as possible, putting us both unnecessarily on the spot and cutting us off from saying the things we wanted to. I also got told off by John Lloyd for calling him an atheist on the show, but I explained that wasn’t unconnected to the nightmare of trying to contend with the terrible interviewing style… but then, apparently few noticed any of this, so here is that half-hour, recorded at BBC Bristol…

Oh, and talking of BBC Bristol, here’s a real oddity – they’re still hosting this odd stand-up show I was part of over a decade ago, where two of my songs, Send The English Back and Come Ye Britpop Lads & Ladettes, both got edited into jokeless mulch…

Then there are all the podcasts I’ve been a guest on over the years, skipping over the dozens of Xbox World podcasts I was part of back in the noughties. And let’s never discuss the Bookshambles shambles at Bristol Slapstick 2023…!

There are a few more exciting podcast appearances still to come, and if you’re keen to chat about any of my adventures in comedy, folklore, history or whatever, you only have to ask… jem@jemroberts.com!