Stand by your beds! The Big Muddler is here, delivering a delicious dose of old-style radio comedy. Sketches ... silly songs ... improbable stories, corralled by the unusual mind of Matthew Crampton. It's a variety of nonsense - and we all need variety.
We're back in the forest - this time somewhere tropical and eastern - to eavesdrop on the local bigwig's grand departure. But things do not go as planned. Ah well. This season finale gathers many of the show's usual suspects. On The Rest is Jollity, Worthy and Mellers are filling airtime with a monologue song called They Tell Me There's a Lot of It About. Then we're back to the afternoon radio phone-in, plagued by classic actors spouting classic poetry. Is that really Richard Burton from Port...
8 Jul 2026
3.5 True Garbage - Stages of Mind Control
Woah! I thought The Big Muddler was a comedy show, but this episode's been hijacked by a documentary podcast called True Garbage. Everything gets a bit serious as presenter Jeff Flatley welcomes you Garbageers to another sensational expose. This time it's a revelation that will shake your boots (not your booty, no, your booty must remain unshaken). Jeff reveals how a conspiracy for world domination has been hiding for years, in plain sight, within a fun, innocent practice. Many are infected -...
22 Jun 2026
3.4 Tolstoy Bingo & guest David Eagle
Huh? How come David Eagle - comedian, folk singer, podcaster, and a man barely past forty years old - is popping up as a guest on post-war podcast The Rest is Jollity? It certainly sounds like him. There's not just innuendo but overt smuttery too, references to ancient variety trio The Young'un Krazee Gang and memories of 'West Harterleepool' as host Worth Matravers insists on calling Eagle's home patch. Together they ham out an old biblical classic - 'The Five Constipated Men in the Bible'. ...
Who has been a guest on The Big Muddler
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Denzel Rumpo
Matthew Crampton
Elvis McGonagall
Dorian Ford
Reach and audience
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
1 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
6 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 4 / 100
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Quality
9
Social presence
0
YouTube
0
Engagement
0
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