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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club
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Official feed for the Rambling Club podcast started by our late lamented friend
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@robinince.bsky.social La poésie nouveau est arrivé
The cover of Robin Ince's book of poetry. The title reads "ROBIN INCE Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth" and a small blurb says "Poems about life, death and the odd bits inbetween". The picture is of a small child - possibly a young Robin - eating an ice cream cone. Vanilla, judging by the colour. In the background, a monochrome grey and black pattern, suggesting that the book is resting on a sofa cushion or perhaps a pair of women's trousers from the seventies
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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You ain't seen us, right? 'Cos the Old Bill have been sniffing round the shed...one of them, anyway, as this week's Guest President is Mark Wingett!

Listen now on Acast: shows.acast.com/tony-slatter...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3sWwMh6...

or AD-FREE on Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/SlatteryLive
Four pictures relating to this week's Rambling Club. Top left, Mark Wingett; top right, a signpost in various European tongues; bottom right, the Rambling Club morons; bottom left, a black and white picture of some soldiers in a queue on a hillside or something. Centre, the Rambling Club logo.
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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We hope you rested your legs - it's rambling time. This week's Guest President is Sally Knyvette, star of Emmerdale and Blake's 7!

Listen on Acast - shows.acast.com/tony-slatter...

Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/6Mo5...

OR get it AD-FREE for all paying tiers at www.patreon.com/SlatteryLive
Four pictures arranged in a square. Top left - Sally Knyvette; top right, an alpen hotel or something Swiss; bottom right, the Rambling knobheads; bottom left, a portrait of little Billy Shakespeare. Centre, the Rambling Club logo
October 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Evening all! It's podcast time, and this week to celebrate the return of legendary soap Brookie, we have the superb John McArdle joining us to chat Antipodean prisons, amongst other oddments!

Listen on Acast - shows.acast.com/tony-slatter...

Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/6rUe...

OR...
Five squares. Top left, John McArdle. Top right, one of those meaningless graphs you see when the news tries to explain economics, all arrows and bullshit. Bottom right, the podcast team. Bottom left, a relief map of Australia. Centre, the podcast logo
October 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Podcast ahoy! This week, musician, milkman, and evil mastermind Terry Molloy chats instruments, Household Furnishings and much more!

Listen on Acast - shows.acast.com/tony-slatter...

Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/27IU...

Or AD-FREE for paying members at Patreon - www.patreon.com/SlatteryLive
Four pictures arranged in a square. Top left, Terry Molloy; top right, Liverpool's famous Cavern club; bottom right, the regular podcast gonks; bottom left, a handy diagram of some keyboard instruments. Centre, the podcast logo
October 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Can a whole year have slipped away between our legs already, like a buttered otter? So it seems. Come commiserate on our increasing age with Guest President Ed Tudor Pole in this week's episode - available at:

Acast - shows.acast.com/tony-slatter...

Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/4BkA...

OR
Four images in a square. Top left: Ed Tudor Pole. Top right: the original punk scene. Bottom right: the Rambling Club imbeciles. Bottom left: a stopwatch buried in sand. Centre: the Rambling Club logo.
October 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Well, it's podcast time again, and unbelievably we've already made it to our fiftieth episode! That's more than Fawlty Towers and Heil, Honey, I'm Home put together.

We've saved a very special guest for you for this episode. It's the marvellous comedian, chaser, doctor and polymath Paul Sinha!
Four images arranged in a square. Top left, Paul Sinha. Top right, the scales of justice. Bottom right, the Rambling Club fools. Bottom left, books. Centre, the Rambling Club logo
September 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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The Rambling Club is back! And this week's Guest President is actor, singer and champion podcaster Mike Fenton Stevens.

Listen at:

Acast - shows.acast.com/tony-slatter...

Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/50yy...

Or wherever you garner your gibberish - or AD-FREE at www.patreon.com/SlatteryLive
September 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Episode 047 is live now! Join Guest President Karl Howman as he talks Spitfires, classical Greek and other ancient brilliant things.

Acast-> shows.acast.com/tony-slatter...

Spotify -> open.spotify.com/episode/3w4x...

or wherever you gather your noise...

or AD-FREE at www.patreon.com/SlatteryLive
Four images arranged in squares. Top left, Karl Howman. Top right, a Supermarine Spifire (B&W). Bottom right, the Rambling Club crew. Bottom left, a map of Britain and Ireland
September 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Hot off the heels of the last tribute show (at the Edinburgh #Fringe, no less), we're doing the podcast live in West Kirby at month end with Interim President Mark Hutchinson.

Tickets are extremely limited but, to be fair, so are we. Head to the website www.tonyslattery.com/live-shows/ for detail.
A poster advertising a live edition of the Rambling Club on 30/08/2025 at 7.00pm at Westbourne Hall, West Kirby. Rambling Club logo top right, pictures of the ramblers in the shed. The text gives details of the show and also a special offer for West Kirby Escape Room - use the code TONY10 for 10% off at westkirbyescaperoom.co.uk
August 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Friday day is podcast day! This week our Guest President is comedian, musician and professional Chris Walken impersonator, Rowland Rivron.

Join us to chat Leisure and Table Service amongst other balls at:

Acast -> shows.acast.com/tony-slatter...

Spotify -> open.spotify.com/episode/6pUX...

OR!
Four-panel image. Top left, guest president Rowland Rivron; top right, a sommelier (?) pouring rose wine into a glass; bottom right, the three regular podcast morons; bottom left, a caravan. Centre, the Tony Slattery's Rambling Club logo.
August 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Our Guest President this week, leading the members Tony Slattery’s Rambling Club, is none other than the star of EastEnders, and almost every comedy you will have ever seen, Paul Bradley!

Now available from Acast-> shows.acast.com/tony-slatter...

Spotify-> open.spotify.com/episode/4JmB...

OR...
Four panels. Top left, a headshot of Paul Bradley; top right, a pretty garden on three levels with dividing walls; bottom right, Allan, Paul and Tony; bottom left, a clipboard with a medical record on it, on which a stethoscope rests. Centrally, the Rambling Club logo.
August 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Many thanks to Sean Styles and the gang at BBC #RadioMerseyside for having us on today to talk about Tony, improv and moving to Merseyside!

If the following link doesn't work, try opening it in the BBC Sounds app, where I'm told it works fine:

www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
Paul Carmichael, Mark Hutchinson, Allan & Erica Lear at the BBC Radio Merseyside studios today. The background is a purple screen with a repeated "BBC Radio Merseyside" logo.
August 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The doors to the Rambling Club are open once again, and our guest President this week is the writer of #Amandaland Helen Serafinowicz! Join her and the team as they take on Colour, English Language Differences and Phrenology!

Tony Slattery’s Rambling Club is available now - links in the first reply
August 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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The doors to the Rambling Club are open once again, and our guest President this week is the writer of #Amandaland Helen Serafinowicz!
Join @hellycake and the team as they take on Colour, English Language Differences and Phrenology!
August 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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What Ho! The doors of the Rambling Club are open once again and our very special guest President is the star of #JeevesAndWooster and #HolbyCity, RobertDaws!
A fascinating ramble through Good and Evil and the one and only PG Wodehouse awaits!

Links in the first reply->
July 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Brand new Rambling Club with our very special guest, the co-host of @slopingpitch1.bsky.social, Nick Hancock!

AD-FREE for Patreons at www.patreon.com/posts/133909...

or

iTunes-> podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Spotify-> open.spotify.com/episode/3bKa...

or your podcast purveyor of choice!
July 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Thank you to everybody who came to our Tony tribute show at the Rik Mayall Comedy Festival. It raised £260 for MIND!

Julian at the Festival sent payment direct to MIND and forwarded us this email he got back.

Two more shows and some cornflakes to be added yet, but we're happy with this as a start!
July 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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This week's TSRC is with our very special guest Paul McGann!
iTunes-> podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Spotify-> open.spotify.com/episode/2WI0...
or your #podcast purveyor of choice!
June 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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The last of the tribute shows is at the Edinburgh Fringe on 18/08/2025.

Come along and help us celebrate the man

www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
June 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Just catching up with the new edition of #HelenLederer 's brilliant autobiography Not That I'm Bitter... the last chapter is about Tony, who was a constant friend and presence in her life.
The first page of the last chapter of Helen Lederer's autobiography. The chapter is titled "Tony Slattery RIP"
June 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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It’s the return of a guest President this week as we welcome TV news legend Simon McCoy back to the Rambling Club! Let's ramble through Natural Theology; Water, Air & Space Transportation; and Diseases.
Available from iTunes - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
or your #podcast hole of choice!
June 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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New podcast is up! This week it's actual Penguin star Con O'Neill having a catch up with his old chum and Blood Brother, Tony's partner Mark.

Find it on Acast: shows.acast.com/tony-slatter...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2JIG...

Or wherever you shop for your twaddle
June 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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This week's Ramble is live and is with the "genius king of stand-ups" (Tony's words), Ted Robbins!

Catch it ad-free at www.patreon.com/c/SlatteryLive accompanied by a bonus segment for Silver tiers and up...

...or wherever you harvest your gibberish, such as Acast shows.acast.com/tony-slatter...
Pictures apparently relevant to the episode, including a sunset over the Eiffel Tower, Ted Robbins, the Ramblers and a yawning otter
June 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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In other plugging news, the bids for the signed mini Cornflakes box will end at lunchtime tomorrow. Some kind soul has already bid a confusing amount of money for them in aid of @wirralmind.bsky.social, but there's still time to pip them to the breakfast

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/20551897...
A slightly out-of-focus Tony sitting behind a freshly-signed mini Cornflakes box. It bears Tony's signature and three others.
June 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM