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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ramb time! Our Guest President today is David Schofield, who you'll know from Pirates of the Caribbean, An American Werewolf in London and loads more. Listen at: Acast-> shows.acast.com/tony-slatter... Spotify-> open.spotify.com/episode/3mQj... Apple-> podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d... OR
Four images.  Top left, Guest President David Schofield; top right, the front door of Number 10 Downing Street, official residence of the Prime Minister of Great Britain, minus cat; bottom right, three knobheads in a shed with the Rambling Club logo centre; bottom left, maybe all those dudes who stabbed Caesar right up, I suppose
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New episode! Today's Guest President is Paul Clayton from HotD, Wolf Hall, Holby and everything. Listen now: Acast - shows.acast.com/tony-slatter... Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/19GG... Apple - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/paul-clayton-fermenting-gases/id1775871287?i=1000792858154 OR
Four pictures.  Top left, Guest President Paul Clayton; top right, a woman attempts to do her homework while negotiating a traditional MFI armchair; bottom right, three plonkers in a shed with the Rambling Club logo centre; bottom right, a tapestry depicting several fools attempting to besiege a castle whilst on horseback - the horse is never getting up that ladder
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Rambling shed is on holiday this week, so our episode is a repeat; but a belter, starring @nigelplaner1.bsky.social as well as our President Tony. Catch it again on Acast -> shows.acast.com/tony-slatter... Spotify-> open.spotify.com/episode/1ezX... Apple-> podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Two images.  Left, and black and white pic of Nigel Planer holding a microphone; right, three berks in a shed with Rambling Clun logo
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Looking forward to spooky season? Well, friend of the show and absolute chap @jamespayton.bsky.social is in a creepy new film that's a must! Check out this tour - the cast will be present and may answer questions or might just scare your pants apart! Look out for Charlie Shaw's Revenge
CHARLIE SHAW'S REVENGE tour dates

Picture of an EEeeEEvil clown plus castmates

01/10/26 Odeon Haymarket, London
06/10 Phoenix Cinema, London
14/10 Odeon Sheffield
15/10 Grove Theatre, Eastbourne
16/10 Leigh Film Factory, Leigh
19/10 Odeon Bristol 
20/10 Odean Birmingham
23-29/10 Lumiere Cinema, Romford
26/10 Odean Brighton
29/10 Eletric [sic] Palace Cinema, Hastings
30/10 Hailsham Pavilion Cinema
31/10 Savoy Nottingham

Yes, some of the dates clash.  No, sorry, I don't know which of those the cast are attending.  I'm just passing the word on
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We're back and celebrating with a DOUBLE GUEST PRESIDENT episode! We chat to Rowland Rivron and @jessicakmann.bsky.social about faith, France and the Co-op Acast-> open.acast.com/public/strea... Spotify-> open.spotify.com/episode/5G6qG9zW0faSMZ5TFb8ehc Apple-> podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
Four pictures.  Top left, Rowland Rivron; top right, Jess Mann; bottom left, three pillocks in a shed, Rambling Club logo centre; bottom left, the Wicker Man
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thank you so much for everyone who's booked to see our Rowland Rivron show! It's now SOLD OUT
Our Rowland Rivron poster plastered with a "SOLD OUT" banner (and a little thank you)
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New! As the emergency technical failure continues, we talk to Interim President Mark Hutchinson again - this time about animals, Canada, and whatever arises. Listen on Acast -> shows.acast.com/tony-slatter... Spotify -> open.spotify.com/episode/5aGW... Apple -> podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Four images. Top left, Interim President Mark Hutchinson; top right, a cute little lamb in a grassy meadow; bottom right, three dunderheads in a shed with the Rambling Club logo centre; bottom left, the majestic Canadian flag flies against a delightful backdop of a pine forest and some mountains
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A slightly unusual Rambling Club this week… We’re sharing a previously Patreon-exclusive episode, recorded entirely in the shed, as our editing computer has spectacularly given up. Tony memories, music, childhood, the arts — and Dewey 787! Links ⬇️
Top left, Interim President Mark (Michael) Hutchinson; top right, a violin; bottom right, three berks in a shed with the Rambling Club logo centre; bottom left, Tony Slattery in the short-lived West End musical Radio Times (probably)
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Chris Rand @chrisrand.com · 04/09/2026
In his lyrics “he’s gone from Subbuteo to dementia in forty short years. As we all have” youtu.be/zI45zju-zI8?...
youtu.be
Half Man Half Biscuit: An Appreciation
YouTube video by Route TV
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I loved making Reality Tunnel with my pal Carl - currently on BBC Sounds
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Steve Aylett 📚 @steveaylett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
📚🪐🧐💙📚🖋️📚⏰🪐📚 internationaltimes.it/steve-aylett...
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We enjoyed our live show with Rowland Rivron so much, we're doing it all over again! Join us in Hoylake on 19/09/2026 - tickets available from www.tonyslattery.com
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Angela @angelt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Berkhamstead Book festival BerkoBookFest always a good day out. @robinince.bsky.social Alexi Sayle, @joannechocolat.bsky.social and many others on the programme so quite the lineup. tickets.matterpay.com/s/berkofest/...
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BerkoFest Book Festival
- Event Tickets.
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This week we welcome Tim Firth, one of Britain’s great comedy writers, whose credits include Neville’s Island, Calendar Girls, Our House, The Girls and The Rottentrolls. A proper writing legend joins the Rambling Club! Links ⬇️
Four images.  Top left, Tim Firth; top right, a German mosquito; bottom right, three pillocks in a shed with the Rambling Club logo centre; bottom left, a variety of instruments (mainly percussion) and their names - xylophone, claves, triangle, snare drum, maracas, tambourine, a misplaced piano, timpani and a bass drum.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A few months back I had to pull out of a gig in Herne Bay and I was replaced by panto star and keen golfer @alistairbarrie.com - now next week I make up for that by filling in at last minute - it will be fun
Round,
The
Bends
Comedy Club.co.uk
Hampton Bay Park, Whitstable Rd, Herne Bay CT6 8BL
Wed 2nd Sept
Robin Ince
Bar at 6pm
8pm
£11
Matt Green
MC Adam Morrison Jones
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Should be a new Blooming Buzzing Confusion up tonight about weird art that has delighted me of late - here is one with me talking about the story behind the new Andrew Scott movie , Elsinore (and talking of much more) www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...
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Blooming Buzzing Confusion pilot | Robin Ince
I talk about my favourite art exhibition of the year so far, Peter Cushing, synchronicity or coincidence, Dungeness and atoms, Caroline Aher
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The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com · 10/08/2026
WE'RE BACK! The iconic science & culture variety night Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People returns to @kingsplacelondon.bsky.social, London for 4 big shows this Dec. Hosted by @robinince.bsky.social, tickets on sale NOW, profits to charity as ever www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/nin...
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Thank you to everyone who has been listening/reading/supporting my new patreon - I aim to keep as much as possible free access but just popped a bonus podcast for people on the Cookie to Pia tours www.patreon.com/RobinInce
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Robin Ince — conversations and blog posts about creativity
Get more from Robin Ince on Patreon. conversations and blog posts about creativity . Support Robin Ince and get exclusive access to their work.
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A rare chance to hear Paul Rhys speak at length about his extraordinary career, life and craft. The acclaimed actor rarely gives interviews and never before on a podcast. From #TipToe to Shakespeare, faith, Blake, Russell T Davies and the art of acting. Don’t miss this one! Where can you get it? ⬇️
Four images.  Top left, Paul Rhys; top right, a Greek or Roman theatre; bottom right, three simpletons in a shed; bottom left, a builder representing engineering by building a roof
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Patreon Early Access! Our extraordinary conversation with the brilliant Paul Rhys (Tip Toe, King Lear, A Discovery of Witches) is available NOW for paying Patreons. Paul rarely gives interviews so this is a real treat! Join us here: patreon.com/slatterylive #PaulRhys #TipToe #RussellTDavies
Four images.  Top left, Guest President Paul Rhys; top right, a Grecian theatre; bottom right, three morons in a shed; bottom left, somebody building a roof onto a house, representing engineering in general.
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This week on Tony Slattery’s Rambling Club, the wonderful Liza Goddard joins us for a ramble through history, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Doctor Who, theatre, dogs, horses and the legendary Lionel Blair death stare! Links below ⬇️
Four images.  Top left, Guest President Liza Goddard; top right, some old English king or other, maybe Johnny; bottom right, three cretins in a shed; bottom left, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo invites you to a staring contest.
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Guys! GUYS! I have SOLVED the James Bond question. Someone get me Barbara Broccoli's number. Or MI5's, I don't care which
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I mean, back in the 1980s in Yes, Minister, Sir Humphrey Appleby pointed out that you should always be the person who takes the minutes because that person *decides what was said at the meeting*. Nobody else remembers because they offload that task to the minutes.
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This reminds me of a case from my degree. Thieves entered a film producer's, stole a film, watched it and put it back. Since the definition of theft includes "intent to permanently deprive" and the thieves had done no damage and taken nothing tangible, there was no case to answer.
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Today is also our 75th episode, so thank you very much for sticking with us!
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Out today!🚨 The Rambling Club went on the road to record LIVE at Fort Perch Rock with the legendary Rowland Rivron and the fabulous James Payton. Expect laughs, tangents, stories, and Rambling Club chaos! #RamblingClub #TonySlattery #RowlandRivron #JamesPayton #LivePodcast #FortPerchRock #Comedy
Four images.  Top left: Special Guest Presidents James Payton and Rowland Rivron, photo taken at this live recording at Fort Perch Rock; top right, a meerkat, looking suspiciously innocent; bottom right, three dunderheads in a shed with the Rambling Club logo centre; bottom left, someone in very damp trousers.
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Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Out now ... johnnyalucard.com/2026/04/27/c...
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Out Now … Model Actress Whatever
Here’s a taster for my new novel …
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The idea that there are submarines in the Great Lakes is a misnomer. The Great Lakes are freshwater, therefore the many underwater boats that patrol them are technically known as sublacustrines, not submarines.
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The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com · 26/07/2026
It’s the penultimate performance of the Cosmic Shambles Forest at Latitude for 2026. @robinince.bsky.social and Jakko Jakszyk. Full report, videos, podcasts and more to come.
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JennEfur @hotlegs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Fuck It
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
We Have Always Lived in the Bouncy Castle
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It's Friday rambling time! This week's Guest President is Michael Greco, actor, football fanatic and forever remembered by millions as EastEnders' charismatic Beppe di Marco. Our journey that encompasses dreams, Italy, criminal law and one or two stories that were probably never meant to be told.
Four images in a square.  Top left, Michael Greco; top right, presumably a dreamscape - a tunnel leading out of rocks looks out onto a rolling sea through a hole shaped liked a human head with a tree growing in it, the branches resembling the rugae of the human brain; bottom right, three dickheads in a shed with the Rambling Club logo central; bottom left, the Old Bailey's statue of Justice with a sword in her right hand and scales in her left.
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The anikythera mechanism, recovered from a shipwreck off the Greek coast in 1901, is believed to be the world's oldest tampon applicator.
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The seven canonical members of the Beatles are John, Paul, George, Ringo, Pete, Deathwatch and Stu.
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
In the King James translation of the Old Testament, the Israelites' enslavement by the Egyptians is described as "an unmitigated pisser" on five separate occasions.
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The town of Pendle, Lancashire, is home to the UK's oldest cheese-molesting festival. Every October local artisans enjoy making cheese replicas of politicians and popular celebrities for the county's perverts to abuse. Sadly, Lancashire cheese is rarely used, being too crumbly to make caricatures.
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Dracula actor Peter Cushing hated his wife, Helena Bonham Carter, so much that upon her death he had a species of stinging nettle named after her
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The most common alternative protein source used in vegan and vegetarian diets is plasticine.
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katy manning @manningofficial.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
time to get those little grey cells out of ' Cybernation ' & Join us on aug 6 at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern for Master mind the Cyber edition fab prizes entertainment & a secret prize from me 🤫 😉 & let's raise the roof & make some £ for Cabaret v Cancer 🩷🙏🏻Ricci Beth Dave & me ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@paulcarmichaeluk.bsky.social Good work squire
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It's new podcast time! This week's Guest President is martial artist, actor and globetrotter Thorsten Nickel. Listen now at Acast-> shows.acast.com/tony-slatter... Spotify-> open.spotify.com/show/3sWwMh6... Audible-> www.audible.de?ref=Adbl_ip_... or AD-FREE at www.patreon.com/SlatteryLive
Four images in a square formation.  Top left, Thorsten Nickel; top right, Egyptian hieroglyphs; bottom right, the three Rambling Club loonies with the Rambling Club logo centre; bottom left, a Jackie Chan video game "Player Select" screen
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Rowland Rivron did an interview with our friends at the Wirral Globe about his upcoming gig with us at Fort Perch Rock on 18/07/2026! You have to sign in to read it, but don't worry, subscription is free. Some tickets still available at www.tonyslattery.com www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/2626337...
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Funnyman Rowland Rivron to look back on 'accidental career' at Fort Perch Rock
Rowland Rivron will share stories from his life and career during a special event at Fort Perch Block in New Brighton on Saturday, July 18 at 7pm.
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We’re joined by the fabulous Karen Ford! From #GrangeHill to Macbeth in Japan and the legendary Mr Bronson, it’s another gloriously unpredictable ramble. Listen at: iTunes-> podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Spotify-> open.spotify.com/episode/7xLO... Audible-> www.audible.com/pd/B0H8F6BFQ...
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Thank you to all our wonderful listeners! We're delighted to say that our new episode with @robinince.bsky.social has hit 40,000 downloads in the last day and a bit. Follow us here or at www.patreon.com/SlatteryLive for more of similar!
The three Prime Rambling Idiots in the shed with logo centre.  Thank you message with "40,000" across the top
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
That should read the wonderful @robinince.bsky.social , of course
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Today's Guest President is the wonderful Robin Ince! Cue tales of Eldorado and the economics of turning a hen into a fish iTunes-> podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Spotify-> open.spotify.com/episode/4SWT... Audible-> www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0H7K16QG... or AD-FREE! at www.patreon.com/SlatteryLive
Four squares with images.  Top left, Robin Ince; top right, some sort of goddess suckling two deer, Christ knows what this is about; bottom right, three dunderheads in a shed with the Rambling Club logo central; bottom left, a wine tasting chart
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The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com · 30/06/2026
One of the TV and Streaming picks of the weeks from both The Guardian and TV Times, the first four episodes of For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music are available to stream on YouTube now at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
LOL good luck with Robert Rankin - there's a chapter in one book where the first-person narrator encounters the noir detective who only works in the first person and they spend five pages arguing over who has to swap to third
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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
We’re joined by the unparalleled Don Warrington to chat about Newcastle, traffic and much more at: iTunes-> podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Spotify-> open.spotify.com/episode/0tIx... Audible-> www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0H6QV1FM... or AD-FREE for all paying tiers at www.patreon.com/SlatteryLive
Four images in a square.  Top left: this week's Guest President, the silk-voiced Don Warrington; top right, a traffic jam; bottom right, three berks in a shed with the Rambling Club logo centre; bottom left, the cast of the wonderful Rising Damp.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A reunion with my fine friend
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