Kicking Christmas up the wazoo in the only way the Old Fools know how. Ian Martin and David Quantick are joined - on a return visit - by brilliant screenwriter, Sarah Phelps.

Paul McCartney! Folk Songs! Today I Learned! Prince Andrew!

Three people having a brilliant laugh. Quite near Christmas. Join us.

This is the end of Season 1 of The Old Fools. Join us again in the new year.

If the producer can be bothered, he'll set up some social feeds for the show. Together we're going to raise the average age on Tik Tok by about 30 years.

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Ian Martin and David Quantick tear caustic lumps out of each other and the week's news stories - They're joined this week by novelist and screenwriter, Jenny Colgan.

This week Ian takes aim at the 'poetry' that's become ubiquitous on railways station whiteboards, Jenny brings up Dick Van Dyke and Coldplay and David gets cross about nearly everything. It really is a sweaty hoot from soup to nuts.

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David Quantick (Veep, NME, more or less every newspaper) and Ian Martin (Veep; state pensioner) and this week's guest co-host, Miranda Sawyer tumble, swearing through a weeks of fetid news.

As usual, the conversation sparks off in a multitude of anarchic, hilarious directions.

News meets popular culture meets two old fools.

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Ian Martin (writer and, this week, Covid sufferer) and David Quantick (horse) are joined by writer, performer, voice over artist and podcaster, Laura Shavin. They spin the random topic generator and end up discussing AI, horse, AI horses, Christmas films, Black Friday, Gregg Wallace (inevitably) a godless heaven and end up falling out over Band Aid.

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Language rating: fruity from the outset and throughout

David Quantick and Ian Martin squabble and swear their way through a short list of things that have caught their attention. This week 's guest co-host is Leeds's finest, writer Lisa Holdsworth.

Two self-confessed old men, Quantick and Martin meet online with a brilliant guest. John Prescott died this week, there was a new 'word of the year' announced, an idiot bought a banana for $5 million, it snowed a bit in some places and David gets a chance to tell his David Bowie story again. Ian also gets to tell a story about Damien Hirst's genitals. Now that's variety.

Bowie clip: https://youtu.be/Bvkkicig7is?si=amW0jucWDnG-qbTX

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Strong language from the outset and throughout.

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Late, this week - but here at last. David Quantick and Ian Martin are joined by PR professional and children's' writer, Gina Rozner to comically pick over the bones of another week's events and irritations.

Together, they cast a cold eye over Bob Dylan's trousers, the apparent agony of being a writer, leaving Twitter without making a song and dance about it, Jim the dog and a bee somewhere you might not expect one.

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Yes - that's a real review from The Daily Telegraph.

Award-worthy foul language throughout

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David Quantick and Ian Martin squabble their way through a week of news in the company of Scottish screenwriter, Andrea Gibb. Beards, lighthouses, Gary Barlow's son, American unpleasantness, self care, Tolkien, public service poetry. It's clear this is another wide-ranging, swear-peppered grumble-fest.

"There's a pleasing edge of Derek and Clive to proceedings' - The Daily Telegraph

"Why do they have to swear so much? - Random listener

"Shouldn't all your shows be this funny?" - Producer's wife

Yes - that's a real review from The Daily Telegraph

Sort of topical, cultural rants and conversation from the point of view older people who still give a damn about the world around them. The inside pages of the broadsheets: Entertainment, broadcasting, nature, science, obituaries, lifestyle, environment, business, fashion, health.

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David Quantick and Ian Martin play host to writer and past-Chair of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, Gail Renard. They swear their way through Gail's extraordinary career and then pull apart some topics from the week's news.

Each week there are sort of topical, cultural rants and conversation from the point of view of at older people who still give a damn about the world around them. The inside pages of the broadsheets: Entertainment, broadcasting, nature, science, obituaries, lifestyle, environment, business, fashion, health. Hartley hare.

Strong language from the start and throughout.

David Quantick and Ian Martin are joined this week by screenwriter, Sarah Phelps (The Sixth Commandment, A Very British Scandal, Ordeal By Innocence) to unpick their own angles on the news. And try to work out which of them is the poshest.

In this edition the new adaptation of Jilly Cooper's The Rivals gets picked over (well, no one else seems to be talking about it.. ) as do suggestions for changes to the NHS, comedians in amusing vehicles and the upcoming elections on boths sides of the Atlantic.

Sort of topical, cultural rants and conversation from the viewpoint of older people who still give a damn about the world around them. The inside pages of the broadsheets: Entertainment, broadcasting, nature, science, obituaries, lifestyle, environment, business, fashion, health.

Strong language from the beginning and throughout.

Ian Martin (writer: The Thick of It, Veep) and David Quantick (Music journo and comedy writer) are joined by writer and editor, Jenny Landreth to pull apart a few things that have bothered them, this week.

Sort of topical, cultural rants and conversation aimed at older people who still give a damn about the world around them. The inside pages of the broadsheets: Entertainment, broadcasting, nature, science, obituaries, lifestyle, environment, business, fashion, health.

Producer: Steve Doherty

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