Robin Allender
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Merry Christmas! And lucky you if you heard the early version of this where we left the metronome on! Thanks so much to @beatlesbookspod.bsky.social for a lovely chat about all things Beatles this year!
New festive pod is out now featuring @beatlesbookspod.bsky.social! Join us for a wrap up of the year in Beatles. Out now where you get ‘em. KBho ho hO.
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Your Own Personal Beatles
We chat to amazing guests about their personal relationship with The Beatles, and discover how their lives and work have been influenced by the greatest band of them all.Guests include Adam Buxton, Jo...
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December 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Merry Christmas! And lucky you if you heard the early version of this where we left the metronome on! Thanks so much to @beatlesbookspod.bsky.social for a lovely chat about all things Beatles this year!
Good lyricist Chris Rea RIP
And all the reasons why it started out
Hit you hard with every bell
The choir practice in the empty hall
Is a sound you know so well
Like something lost inside your overcoat
You find it later, by mistake
You lost it all a thousand years ago
And you pray it's not too late
And all the reasons why it started out
Hit you hard with every bell
The choir practice in the empty hall
Is a sound you know so well
Like something lost inside your overcoat
You find it later, by mistake
You lost it all a thousand years ago
And you pray it's not too late
December 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Good lyricist Chris Rea RIP
And all the reasons why it started out
Hit you hard with every bell
The choir practice in the empty hall
Is a sound you know so well
Like something lost inside your overcoat
You find it later, by mistake
You lost it all a thousand years ago
And you pray it's not too late
And all the reasons why it started out
Hit you hard with every bell
The choir practice in the empty hall
Is a sound you know so well
Like something lost inside your overcoat
You find it later, by mistake
You lost it all a thousand years ago
And you pray it's not too late
Just noticed that Holden Caulfield gives the nuns $10, the same amount that Maurice ‘chisels’ out of him the night before. A kind of karmic repayment. (I reread Catcher in the Rye every December and always notice new things.)
December 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Just noticed that Holden Caulfield gives the nuns $10, the same amount that Maurice ‘chisels’ out of him the night before. A kind of karmic repayment. (I reread Catcher in the Rye every December and always notice new things.)
Are Guardian going to give Dijon album of the year, in a move reminiscent of when they awarded it to Channel Orange despite having barely mentioned Frank Ocean in the previous year?
December 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Are Guardian going to give Dijon album of the year, in a move reminiscent of when they awarded it to Channel Orange despite having barely mentioned Frank Ocean in the previous year?
Fun fact: in The Holiday, Mr Napkin Head was actually played by Jude Law
December 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Fun fact: in The Holiday, Mr Napkin Head was actually played by Jude Law
This month on The Allender Calendar I’m joined by the fantastic @pierrenovellie.bsky.social to discuss his book Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian’s Guide to Autism. Available wherever you get your pods!
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The Allender Calendar: Episode 16: Pierre Novellie
This month on The Allender Calendar I'm joined by the fantastic comedian Pierre Novellie to discuss his 2024 book Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism. It's a brilliant, and...
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December 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This month on The Allender Calendar I’m joined by the fantastic @pierrenovellie.bsky.social to discuss his book Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian’s Guide to Autism. Available wherever you get your pods!
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not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize
December 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize
‘I’m just as God made me sir’
In honor of Rob Reiner, please tell me your favorite line-reading from THIS IS SPINAL TAP
December 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
‘I’m just as God made me sir’
Hey man, you ok, you haven’t posted Pentangle playing Wedding Dress for a while
December 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Hey man, you ok, you haven’t posted Pentangle playing Wedding Dress for a while
Ringo has such an unnecessarily baggy Raiders baseball cap
December 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Ringo has such an unnecessarily baggy Raiders baseball cap
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Absolutely brilliant that Nick Knowles has been honoured as a Sir by the King himself. Rightly justified - and about time too! Sir Nick Knowles.
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Absolutely brilliant that Nick Knowles has been honoured as a Sir by the King himself. Rightly justified - and about time too! Sir Nick Knowles.
I was really happy with this thing I wrote about Cameron Winter earlier this year so I’m posting it again now
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What I want is far away
Some thoughts on the Cameron Winter album
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December 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I was really happy with this thing I wrote about Cameron Winter earlier this year so I’m posting it again now
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No matter how many streets you walk down in London there is always another pub
December 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
No matter how many streets you walk down in London there is always another pub
We need to see the photos!
In this week's #Uncanny episode...solicitor Kate leaves her rural life in Yorkshire to move into her new partner’s house in London but, before long, she is plagued by disturbing, seemingly inexplicable phenomena…
Is it the house, or Kate herself, who is haunted?😱😱😱
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Is it the house, or Kate herself, who is haunted?😱😱😱
Uncanny | Listen on BBC Sounds
December 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We need to see the photos!
If I saw that Paddington Bear puppet in real life I’d throw it off a bridge I can tell you that for nothing
December 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
If I saw that Paddington Bear puppet in real life I’d throw it off a bridge I can tell you that for nothing
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Get a load of this. 😆
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Get a load of this. 😆
I’m standing in between carriages on a very busy train and, as ever, I am amazed by how long some men take in the loo. 15 minutes, 20 minutes. Just insane. Not ticket dodging either.
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I’m standing in between carriages on a very busy train and, as ever, I am amazed by how long some men take in the loo. 15 minutes, 20 minutes. Just insane. Not ticket dodging either.
For some reason my Instagram feed is all American barbecue blokes in black gloves cooking the most disgusting food imaginable e.g. beef shin glazed with Pepsi and Dorito dust
December 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
For some reason my Instagram feed is all American barbecue blokes in black gloves cooking the most disgusting food imaginable e.g. beef shin glazed with Pepsi and Dorito dust
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Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.
Just realised the A section of Penny Lane is in B and the B section is in A, wheels within wheels
December 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Just realised the A section of Penny Lane is in B and the B section is in A, wheels within wheels
Here at Instagram we’ve decided to make it easier than ever to accidentally video call someone
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Here at Instagram we’ve decided to make it easier than ever to accidentally video call someone
I am deep within @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I am deep within @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
AOTY!
Gift Songs – Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
The Making – Lavinia Blackwall
Interior Live Oak – Cass McCombs
Blurr – Joanne Robertson
Like a Ribbon – John Glacier
Night Fishing on a Calm Lake – Jerkcurb
Big city life – Smerz
Salt River – Sam Amidon
Getting Killed – Geese
private music – Deftones
Gift Songs – Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
The Making – Lavinia Blackwall
Interior Live Oak – Cass McCombs
Blurr – Joanne Robertson
Like a Ribbon – John Glacier
Night Fishing on a Calm Lake – Jerkcurb
Big city life – Smerz
Salt River – Sam Amidon
Getting Killed – Geese
private music – Deftones
December 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
AOTY!
Gift Songs – Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
The Making – Lavinia Blackwall
Interior Live Oak – Cass McCombs
Blurr – Joanne Robertson
Like a Ribbon – John Glacier
Night Fishing on a Calm Lake – Jerkcurb
Big city life – Smerz
Salt River – Sam Amidon
Getting Killed – Geese
private music – Deftones
Gift Songs – Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
The Making – Lavinia Blackwall
Interior Live Oak – Cass McCombs
Blurr – Joanne Robertson
Like a Ribbon – John Glacier
Night Fishing on a Calm Lake – Jerkcurb
Big city life – Smerz
Salt River – Sam Amidon
Getting Killed – Geese
private music – Deftones