What's The Chat? with Alison Craig and John Wood

Sep 20 2024 29 ep. 37 mins 42
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Join award winning broadcasters Alison Craig and John Wood in their freewheeling chat about encounters with rock stars, comedians, clackers, politicians, actors, friends, family, Fireball XL5 and more.
Live calls, occasional guests and a general stream of consciousness all provingthese two pillocks are older and none the wiser. 

John and Alison also present The Sunday Zoo a weekly radio program in Scotland every week 10am - 1pm on 

They don't so much come of age as slide towards decrepitude and incontinence, laughing all the way. 

It wouldn't be the same without you so email us at [email protected] 
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Bobby Bluebell brings hysterics to the podcast. EXPLICIT language.

Sep 20 2024 34 mins  
Bobby talks about his life as a Bluebell, his extraordinary songwriting career under his real name of Robert Hodgens and tells some knicker wittingly funny tales about the wild days of yore peppered with some fascinating insights in to the art of songwriting. It's a must listen.The Bluebells on The Old Grey Whistle Test https://youtu.be/QWXRzAI1p6c?si=mI_C96ylBCk-tyW0John and Aliso

Swingers Hotel, psycho, Edinburgh Festival 2024 John and Alison are back.

Aug 11 2024 37 mins  
Lazy swines have got it together finally to do a new Episode. Covering a myriad of topics...Alison recently back from the US recording in LA, driving from East to West Coast after sailing across the Atlantic then back again to work with Andrew Rollins and others ...links below. 6500 miles in a hire car there are stories.. so Edinburgh Fringe, travel, music, diets, guns, food, domes

Join John and Alison for Christmas Lunch and a walk though Edinburghs Xmas Market.

Dec 16 2023 33 mins  
John and Alison wander through Edinburgh's famous Christmas market, chat to a few tourists, become hysterical over some very lame jokes and go for lunch. Business as usual. Please note Johns insistence that he is not drinking til Christmas and time how long it takes him to forget. Person closest to the time gets a t shirt.Hope you enjoy it.and Merry Christmas to you and yours! PS W

Kidnapped by The Stranglers...and and that's the tip of the iceberg...

Oct 06 2023 45 mins  
A must listen for the musos...we talk to Ronnie Gurr, man of music kidnapped by The Stranglers, encounters with Grace Jones, Sue cat woman, Sex Pistols, The Village People... and a new record pressing planting Scotland. Fascinating and fun.Enjoy.Www.seabassvinyl.comGet in touch with John and Alisom on Whatsthechatpodcast@gmail. comIf you enjoy the podcast then didnuou know John and

In the Pub. September 2023.

Oct 05 2023 43 mins  
Hilarity as John and Alison lose it sitting in the pub swapping stories about....A leather jacket eating dog.John refusing to bin his aged Hard Rock Café jackets…Trying to release 4500 photos of your phone..AGFA photographs. Disc CamerasGetting the photos developed…into Boots mortified….Link to fabulous singer Georgie Cecile - http://www.georgiacecile.comFraser Urquhart, loc

John and Alison hit the Edinburgh Festival August 2023.

Aug 14 2023 32 mins  
Enjoy a wander round Edinburgh with John and Alison and a few tips for shows to see during the biggest Arts Festival in the world.Alison grabs the Director of The Pleasance Theatre for a chat as John waits at the bar for a pint....Lamenting the loss of bars and restaurants in the City, laughing like drains at the most unlikely things and enjoying life. Join us.Freewheeling chat abo

Series 2 Welcome back to John's tooth.

Jul 30 2023 32 mins  
John and Alison start the way they mean to go on...in the pub.A day out of Edinburgh in North Berwick at the seaside the chattering dafties return with their freewheeling chat. On the week Tony Bennet sadly passed on, John recalls meeting the great man himself. Every week in Series 1 John managed to talk about San Francisco...this is no exception, much to Alison's annoyance. The ho

We're back!

Jun 22 2023 42 mins  
Usual, unedited, freewheeling, nonsense...bear with us as 2023 hits it's hot an glorious summer we are back in the room and in the ear area with What's The Chat Series 2. It's a round up, catch up and waffle in advance of the more regular podcasts we have planned from here...yes there is food and drink involved ...and we hope you will join us as we celebrate and indulge in some of

We're all Not going on a summer holiday....end of series 1.

Jun 14 2021 32 mins  
Last one of the series. John and Alison wrap up the first series of What's The Chat? with an array of nonsense. They will be back 7th September, even older and dafter.Transfer Magic. Where to get your stuff off cassettes and vids and onto memory stick....TV Recommendations of the week.Mare of Eastown Kate Winslet's brilliant new series on Sky. Or prime if you cough up for Series 1.

Chilli, Time and Huts. It’s deep.

Jun 07 2021 33 mins  
Alison Craig and John Wood - not as unreliable and inconsistent as you thought - it’s Episode 20 ! Ranting, raving, chatting, laughing, friends, Romans, countrymen. Without the Romans and countrymen. Enjoy.Award winning broadcasters and old friends John Wood and Alison Craig talk, swap stories and shoot the breeze. A little light relief when the world is going to hell in a handca