Communal Bathroom

It's Pizza Weekend! And the Communal Bathroom gang go on a cross-country tour of pizza from Manchester to London!

In this free-wheeling episode, Chris reveals his 28-day pizza-abstinence challenge diary and eats his first post-abstinence pizza. Sam, meanwhile, plays both wily antagonist and excited commentator.

Elsewhere, Ben Meker drunkenly attempts to explain how to make a cob pizza oven and interactive drinks are invented that celebrate both Producer Paul's bathroom habits and also some of the more hirsute elements of previous episodes of the show

The subject of pizza is given a good chewing over, and then it's all washed down with an incredible song from folk singer John Byers (aka Mario D'Agostino) about possessive pint protection

A challenge. A journey. A lot of gin. Some pizza. Many songs. See you next year!

After a glut of guests in recent episodes, it's back to bubble bath basics...Sam and Chris each find themselves a warm, sudsy spot in the bath and take the opportunity to calm out and chill down.

As they relax, they ponder upon the violent rap wars of Chester and the easy-going educational songs of Zambia. Chris conducts a desert of sound, Sam sounds off about a dessert and together they bring cacophonous life to a piece of fan fiction.

Between the deep breaths and bubbles, they find time to talk about pizza abstinence, their ongoing attempts to get 'hyperintrajocularity' into common parlance, and to finish, they dunk themselves a couple of times into the Christopher Delamere Song Archive Lucky Dip.

Come on in and get clean and calm out and chill down. Ahhhhh....

We're having a party! In attendance: 4 humans, 2 tortoises and 1 duck.

It's Sam's tortoises' 5th birthday, so Sam and Chris have two guests to join in the celebrating. Now a fully fledged member of bathroom staff but who for tax reasons gets paid in chilli....It's Producer Paul. And...you may remember her from a brief cameo in episode 3 in which she spat water all over the bathroom...It's Sam's Darling Girlfriend Sally.

The podcast party entertainment includes fancy cocktails, door jazz, tortoise comedy, terrible puns, and a good old pray to some patron saints.

The bathroom guests try to cleanse everyone's souls, with Producer Paul once again extolling the virtues of 'That Glass Of Water That You Have Immediately After Having Brushed Your Teeth' and Darling Girlfriend Sally giving all the collected bathers some much needed spiritual guidance.

He's maths in the dark. He's a bag of the masses. He's the church nightwatchman. He is the crumpled martyr of Malmo. That's right, our special guest this episode is none other than Brad Francisco!

Shadowy Gamesmaster Francisco helps direct our journey through weird noises, weird birthday presents and weird birthday noise presents.

There's some special music sent in by No. 1 fan and duck namesake Jonathan Hamnett (a.k.a. Jon The Man), one of the bathers becomes a God to aliens, a duck is both insulted and molested, new flags are unfurled across the internet and it all gets a bit emotional with the biggest outpouring of fan praise we've ever had.

He's maths in the dark. He's a bag of the masses. He's the church nightwatchman. He is the crumpled martyr of Malmo. That's right, our special guest this episode is none other than Brad Francisco!

Shadowy Gamesmaster Francisco helps direct our journey through weird noises, weird birthday presents and weird birthday noise presents.

There's some special music sent in by No. 1 fan and duck namesake Jonathan Hamnett (a.k.a. Jon The Man), one of the bathers becomes a God to aliens, a duck is both insulted and molested, new flags are unfurled across the internet and it all gets a bit emotional with the biggest outpouring of fan praise we've ever had.

Joining Sam and Chris in the bathroom this time is their good friend Producer Paul, who sees to all their engineering needs and also wades in on such serious subjects as 'That Glass Of Water That You Have Immediately After Having Brushed Your Teeth'.

Producer Paul joins a growing fold which includes of course their swimming sidekick Jon The Duck, as well as the masterfully mirthful Mario D'Agostino who contributes a song about hospital administration.

The guys introduce you to the game of 'Lazy TV Executives' , discuss the relative merits of Euston Square, intentionally offend over half the world's population and take their chances on a lucky dip.

Sam and Chris throw everything at this podcast and see what sticks.

With the aid of cryptic cue cards and swimming sidekicks, they sound off about the city of Sheffield and conflabulate about the community of kendama. There is a rap about cycling and some jokes about punk. In this the most adventurous episode to date, there is also more than one attempt at on-air hair removal, with both painful and spiritual consequences.

It's a weird one.

In this shorter solo episode, Chris gets the run of the bathroom as Sam is busy with actual real life stuff. Chris gets a little lonely and a little scared, and entertains himself by taking a walk and writing songs about food. Sam sends in a dispatch about procrastination and also speaks to us from a continental bath!

The bathroom moves down south, and this time we're on a boat! Sam welcomes Chris to the boat by explaining the rigours of boat life, and Chris struggles with some of its less convenient aspects...

And then songs and poems abound! There's a famous poem set to music, a famous song with new lyrics, a poem about a special friend, a poem competition, and a poem performed musically with the special friend that the previous poem was about!

Episode 2 of Dispatches From The Communal Bathroom is a Beatles Special!

Our two intrepid audio adventurers bravely tackle the Beatles behemoth in the face of extreme tiredness (which they concede was their own fault).

There's a quiz from Sam, and a song from Chris, an interview beamed in from 1967 and a creepy dispatch from a fuzzy part of the internet. All conducted with the occasional dance with copyright infringement.