For the love of pod!

Ray Peacock, Ed Gamble and Raji James discuss their podcast ‘Write that down, write that down!’ Ray Peacock keeps urging during the course of this interview, mischievously insisting that any comment that embarrasses his perennial whipping boy, Raji James is preserved on the record. What I’m instructed to note doesn’t always make a lot of sense out of context, but it certainly indicates how discursive their banter can be. Key phrases include: ‘diuretic’, ‘nymeh, nymeh, nymeh’ and ‘cock like a knotted cricket jumper’. Listeners to Peacock’s podcast, which start its fourth series on Chortle and iTunes today, know James by his full title: ‘Little Raji James Who Used To Be On EastEnders But Ruined It’, as Peacock and fellow stand-up Ed Gamble perpetually mock the actor for being virtually unemployable since being axed from the... [read full story]