The weekly show where Landlord Robbie Knox is joined by special guests to create their dream pub. No stone is left unturned as guests choose everything from the pub fittings to what's on draft, from what's on the playlist to what gets barred. All this plus early pub memories, hilarious drinking anecdotes, and great pub conversation. Want to contact the landlord? Send us a message to robbie@moonunderpod.com! Find us on other platforms here - https://audioalways.lnk.to/moonunderpodSN If you're ...
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A friendship formed on those famous cobbles, join Colson Smith, Jack P. Shepherd and Ben Price 'On The Sofa', as the Coronation Street stars chat about their lives, work and everything in-between. Whatever they’ve been up to, and whatever they’ve been watching, these three best mates get together to share their unique insight into the world. Want to share something with the lads? On The Sofa WhatsApp number, +4477457404612. We can't wait to hear from you! Find us on other platforms here - ht ...
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Carrie Jade Does Not Exist is the story of how one woman, who took on over six different identities, infiltrated the lives of vulnerable people, and lied her way into gaining their trust. This series hosted by Sue Perkins and journalist Katherine Denkinson tells the story of how Carrie built up a picture-perfect persona and scammed her way into the literary world until she finally got tangled up in her very own web of lies. But, it doesn’t end there. Bonus episodes are released as new inform ...
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The untold story of the murder of a gay police officer in Northern Ireland in 1997. Belfast 1997. But not just any part of Belfast, gay Belfast. A place you've probably never heard of before. Cigarette smoke, aftershave and expectation fill the air in the only gay bar in the country. Sat having a drink on a night out is Darren Bradshaw. He was just 24 years old when he was shot dead in front of hundreds of people. His brutal murder by terrorists sparked fears of a return to all out violence ...
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🚗 Golf retreats. Service stations. Colonoscopies. 90s Champions League nights at Elland Road. It can only be a Monday in On The Sofa land. And has that elusive Colson’s Conundrum jingle finally landed? We love hearing from you so if you have something to share, email us at hello@onthesofashow.com or WhatsApp us on 07457 404 612 (+44 if outside UK).…
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William Hanson - The Cock and Trumpet
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Renowned etiquette expert William Hanson is in the building to put together his dream pub. The fine bone China has been dusted, the sleepy drunk in the corner has done up his fly and chatter is at a noticeably restrained level. William has brought a welcome refined edge to the Moon Under Water today. The co-host of the veritably successful Help I S…
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🏏 The cricket season has come to an end but that doesn’t mean things slow down at Castleford CC and it certainly doesn’t mean Colson’s cricket chat has gone into hibernation on this Free For All Friday. And the boys have sat on literally everything from the sofas in the Corrie green room to a Shetland Pony so it’s important that they come up with t…
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The Pub Notice Board - ‘Hugely Disagreeable Correspondence’
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Captain! Beef ahoy on the horizon! Well maybe not prime boeuf, but a critical email sets Robbie’s tongue a-wagging on the Notice Board today as questions of the integrity of his pub challenge quest are thrown up. We also hear of some intense Irish pub crawling practices for the upcoming festive season. Plus dive bars are thrown into the mix along w…
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🕵️Johnny English is On The Box today and there’s a generational divide in the room. Is it the work of comedic genius the younger members in the room think it is? We also learn why there’s no point trying to message Colson with a last minute invite to the gym and in Tricks of the Trade we hear how different Corrie characters convince us they’ve had …
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Kevin McCloud - The Sow and Pigs
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Grand Designs’ honcho-in-chief is in to build his dream pub. A fixture of our screens for many a decade, when he’s not casting his eye over the architectural triumphs and disasters of overly ambitious couples, Kevin McCloud is in his local. And Kevin is someone who absolutely oozes enthusiasm informed by a life well lived. From his own orchards, to…
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🥣 It’s your first instalment of the week and if it’s variety you’re after, you’ve come to the right place. Jack has a serious wedding question for Colson and Ben, while Colson has a slightly less serious but equally important wedding question for Jack (it’s soup related). Plus, where would you have a blue plaque to mark your iconic moments and how …
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🗑 Free For All Friday is quickly turning into Challenge Friday and despite reservations about “does this work for audio?” we’re ploughing on regardless with a tense head to head. Plus there’s yet more TV mixups as Ben undergoes some proper cringe in front of his mate and there’s an absolutely rubbish Top 5. 📩 We’re on email hello@onthesofashow.com …
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The Pub Notice Board - 'The 99p Pint'
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It's a Pub Notice Board that spans the country, as we make stops in Liverpool, Leeds, Horsham, Hove and more. Some brave listeners put themselves forward to represent their area as local correspondents, and Robbie and Dan's taste buds meet their match once more, this time in the form of a pastry pale ale. The Notice Board wouldn't be anything witho…
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🥊 Rocky is what’s on the cards today. But not before an absolute roasting of Colson’s culinary abilities. Crucially we’re not here to talk about frozen good though as the boys dive into the Stallone boxing classic. Also expect some House of The Dragon chat from what the lads have been watching this week and Tricks of The Trade takes a thespian turn…
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Reverend Kate Bottley - The Jesus Arms
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Do Reverends and pubs go together? This week's guest answers this question with an emphatic yes, as The Moon Under Water opens its doors to its very first member of the church, Reverend Kate Bottley. Kate talks about the deep links between priest and pub. She reveals how she once cancelled evening church services to host a pub quiz, and spills the …
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Who crashed the Corrie NTAs afterparty?!
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🍾 Colson has all the goss from the other week’s National Television Awards after a big night in London. Who made a mess of themselves? Who crashed the afterparty? Who caused the whole of Corrie to miss the train? He’s willing to divulge answers to varying degrees to sustain his acting career. Elsewhere a listener asks for first date advice, Jack ge…
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Terrible Things You Can't Get Enough Of
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🏎 What's a terrible thing you just love? Mrs Browns Boys? Love Island? Pasta with ketchup? The boys are digging into more of those rubbish things that you still just can't get enough of on this Pants Down Friday. Does cricket come into that category for Colson? No matter how often Jack and Ben tell Colson that he makes cricket the most boring thing…
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The Pub Notice Board - 'Buy Buy Buy, Sell Sell Sell, Drink Drink Drink'
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It's a bumper week of pubbing for Robbie as he sails past the 130 pubs in a year mark. Quite impressive for a man who doesn't like late nights. Unsurprisingly, such unfettered pub-going leads to some serious questioning from Dan. And after last week's intriguing drink suggestion, Robbie and Dan try another strange drink sent in by a listener. They …
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Our Most Controversial Blockbuster Opinions
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👽 The boys take in the new Alien film, reveal their controversial blockbuster opinions and there’s a real life tale of Harry Potter’s Argus Filch. There's absolutely loads flying around. We also obtain a truly groundbreaking piece of performance advice from Colson in Tricks of The Trade and Ben hypothesises a new reality TV show. Plus what objectiv…
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Historic Pub Crawls - The Crawler's Rest
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Thomas J. Vosper aka Historic Pub Crawls stops by to design his dream pub. And boy is this a man who knows his way around a pub. He's visited hundreds in the past year alone, and has amassed thousands of followers showcasing the best pubs this fine isle has to offer. Want to know the best pub to visit in Nottingham? The creepiest pub to go to in De…
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🧑🏻🦰 Well hello! To settle you into your week, no matter how brilliant or bleak your horizon looks we’ve got loads of fun to perk it up. Colson reveals some extraordinary bodily facts about gingers and gives all the follicular details of his hair transplant, while Old Father Ben brings some *tales from the past*, back to a time of pay phones and be…
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🤝 Comfy? We’re back in on a Feel Good / Pants Down / Free For All Friday. It’s all free and easy here as we hear about getting it wrong with one of your heroes and Colson asks who would the dream guests on the show be? There’s also tales of the violent past from young Ben, who is also sacked(?!) from the Top 5 leading to an interesting reinvention …
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The Pub Notice Board - ‘The World’s First All You Can Eat Crisp Buffet’
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A bumper sack of messages this week as listener Olivia suggests an intriguing drink for the boys to try, and Alma our South East London correspondent her minions with carrying out an important review. Elsewhere there’s pubs in parks, metal pubs in Colorado and a tease of the promises of Hull. Send in any interesting suggestions you might have for t…
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🍞 This week’s On The Box is absolutely jam packed with peeks behind the camera, toast crime and opinions so piping hot that you’ll have to watch your fingers. The boys cover the *worst* things they’ve watched of late, there’s a quiz question featuring an iconic moment, and Ben offers a sartorial Trick of The Trade. Plus, what do Kevin Webster’s jac…
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George Lewis - ‘I Was A Walking Vineyard’
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Sketch comic, the lovely George Lewis, has now built his dream pub (see the previous episode for that), so now it’s time for head into even more that will round off the experience of walking into The Stumbling Turkey. There’s some Oasis oneupmanship, talk of strapping wine to oneself and a very observant thing for George to bar from his pub. Plus t…
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Comic and parenting observer George Lewis is in the Moon Under Water this week. Best known for his observant parenting sketches, George leaves the kids at the door to take Landlord Robbie and Regular Dan through his dream pub. And he takes us on a journey through gin in film canisters and neat Pepsi syrup to fashion a wonderfully wistful establishm…
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🎢 Well it’s exclusives central on On The Sofa right now. A rollercoaster ride even. Engagements, Colson’s [to be revealed soon], and huge news coming out of Blackpool. Yes, if you were at the Pleasure Beach the other week that really was Craig Tinker that you saw in that situation. There’s also a very highly strung canine in this week’s Colson’s co…
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Chesney To Replace Colson on Corrie?!
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🍦You’re clocking off early from work. The pub’s already calling. And CJB are here to carry you into the weekend in a Free For All Friday / Pants Down Friday in On The Sofa towers. Colson is caught scoffing away in an alleyway, they question being unable to lie and Ben throws up a Top 5 category to really get the brains ticking only for some typical…
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The Pub Notice Board - ‘The Man Who’s Drunk 50,000 Different Beers’
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There’s connoisseurs and then there’s connoisseurs. And today we’ve got a man who has smashed past many milestones in on The Pub Notice Board today. For Robbie and Dan are blessed with the presence of a man who has drunk 50,000 *different* beers in the form of the delightful Andy Morton. And not only that but he's had 50,000 different *British* bee…
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📺 Your second Sofa dose of the week as from here on in we're with you three times a week. Wednesdays are for film and telly, as we dive into everything On The Box and behind the scenes of the silver screen. Our best and worst things from the summer dominate this week as the boys get into some big TV show. We’re also treated to a new quiz PLUS actin…
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WhatWillyCook - ‘I Smoked A Twiglet’
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Internet chef and wordsmith WhatWillyCook has built his dream pub, from the foundations to the pumps. Now he fills it with tales and all manner of chat on Drinks In Time, Dream Companions and twiglets. It’s the second consumable bite of the pubbing cherry. And in said cherry is a dive into heroes and a rather harrowing drink which inexplicably Will…
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What do you get if you combine one squeeze of lemony p*ss, two cracks of pepper noir and a heaping dollop of Shoju, it’s Whatwillycook’s dream pub of course. There’s a lot of people cooking food online, but there’s few having anywhere near as much of a laugh while doing it as Will Hughes. No not the Crystal Palace midfielder, rather better known to…
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💍 The boys are back after a summer away and are with you THREE times a week! And there’s big news: for Jack is now engaged, and we have the exclusive lowdown of what went down on safari. There’s also a very dry Colson’s Conundrum that leads to a ruthless conclusion and Cols has been showcasing his MC skills at the Crapper wedding. Back with you on …
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💥 Move aside Oasis. There’s only one Mancunian comeback that matters this week. We're back On The Sofa after three months in Africa (Jack), clinics (Colson), at home (Ben). And we’re bigger and chattier than ever with THREE episodes of On The Sofa EVERY week. That’s right, you're going to be hearing more from us than most of your family and friends…
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Much to cover on this week’s PNB from intriguing tops to 'raz juice', and accusations of yet more information. This time from Down Under. The landlord and reliable regular are absolutely inundated with requests for correspondents. A Battery? A Draught of Correspondents? Here to provide pubdates from around the globe, the roving reporter network is …
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Cheap Holiday Expert - ‘The Cheapest Drinking Destinations’
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Chelsea Dickenson, aka Cheap Holiday Expert has constructed her dream pub. But now for the information which you at home can actively use. Given that Robbie spends half of his life travelling across Europe's watering holes, he has many questions that need answering. As well as a wistful holiday Drink In Time and big light hatred, Chelsea divulges s…
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Cheap Holiday Expert - The Come What May
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Chelsea Dickenson, more widely known as Cheap Holiday Expert is in building her dream pub. You’ll have no doubt seen Chelsea on social media as the Martin Lewis of weekend and annual leave activities, and she has much to bring to the bar. As someone who has trailed across country after country on a Ryanair budget this is a guest with a cornucopia o…
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The Pub Notice Board - ‘Big News From Batley’
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Call AC-12 and bring in Ted Hastings, for there are serious accusations of corruption flying around the 52 Pub Challenge! Our Landlord steps through the South of France portal to join Dan for an absolute boozy shopping trolley full of correspondence. There’s Romanian tales, Dan thinks he’s found the nicest beer in the world, there’s an incredible b…
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Arthur Hill - ‘The Ultimate Pub Bloke’
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Musician/YouTuber/Tiktoker Arthur Hill joins Robbie and Dan in the pub he’s just built to dig into some of the bigger questions bobbing around. Namely, has he seen his mum drunk? And, what’s his greatest drink ever in his Drink In Time? And what’s the hot insight into the YouTube scene? There’s some very different pub companion suggestions, human s…
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We’ve got a guest who does it all today. Music, YouTube, TikTok and a podcast that he does with his mum. A content da Vinci, it’s Arthur Hill! And he’s a real pubsman, eschewing the youthful pull of bars, pub chameleon blending into their various settings. And he’s got a delightful one to build, some wonderful tales and nuggets on the YouTube world…
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The Pub Notice Board - Greg Wells from We Are Beer
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Both the Landlord and Regular are swanning about Europe this week, as is their want. But Robbie joins us from The Moon Under Water’s German outpost to chat to We Are Beer director Greg Wells. We Are Beer run some of the UK’s biggest beer festivals and they also recently released their Top 50 UK Beers list, so be sure to have a look at the list for …
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Dry Cleaning - ‘The Simon Cowell of Pub Quizzes’
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Grammy-winning band Dry Cleaning have constructed and stocked their dream pub. But that’s just the start, for we’ve got a lot of rules to dig into, some ingenious pub features to unveil, and a unique grandmother to discuss. Throw in a bready sommelier who must turn their hand to anything, it’s a delightful chat with our prospective landlords Flo an…
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Dry Cleaning - Suzie’s Bar @ The Energy Dome
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Flo and Lewis from post-punk band Dry Cleaning are in with Robbie and Dan to build their dream pub. We’re looking at two pubfessionals, who’ve put a serious amount of thought into their setup. So much so that Regular Dan’s own facts are sidelined for a guest masterclass in knowledge nuggets. There’s an ingenious food suggestions, talk of pets, Anti…
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The Pub Noticeboard - ‘Pepys & Dickens Doing The Heavy Lifting’
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Many a musing in the Moon today for the Landlord and his Regular as Robbie and Dan sift through your thoughts with a tooth comb. And a fine one at that. Nearly as fine as our prospective pub correspondents up and down the land. And the job applications take us off in directions as varied as Great Historical Pub goers and KPIs. If you have your own …
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Introducing… Answers for Claudia, a new true crime podcast from the producers of Carrie Jade Does Not Exist. Listen to the first six episodes of Answers for Claudia for free, wherever you get your podcasts. 15 years ago chef Claudia Lawrence went missing. Multiple men have been arrested - then released. Several lakes near her home were emptied in t…
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Stevie Martin - ‘What’s The Milk About?’
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Comedian, actor, writer, everythinger, Stevie Martin has built her dream pub brick by brick, pint by pint. It’s a really lovely classic pub called Jack’s Balls. Now it’s time for her to let us know of a whole host of things that’ll also be going down there including the drink she’d most like to relive and her Dream Pub Companion. We skate across yo…
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Multi-talented comedian, actor and writer Stevie Martin descends on the Moon Under Water to design her own magical dream pub! And with her pub comes an inside scoop on the working practices of gastropubs of the past, discussion of the delightful land of Durham and what W H Smith even is. Oh and a big testicular sign. Check out the second part of th…
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The Pub Notice Board - 'Kazakh Beer Button'
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Lots to deal with on today's PNB, taking in the four corners of the world: Newport, Leytonstone, Thetford and Kazakhstan. The latter locale featuring a fascinating insight into the establishments of Karagandy. The quest to find Britain's cheapest pint potentially reaches its peak with an astonishing finding from South Wales and we have more of your…
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Josh Thomas - ‘My Horrifying First Kiss’
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Now that Aussie comic Josh Thomas has built his dream pub he beds in to inform Robbie and Dan of all the bad things that will take place there. Namely, bland food, a horrific favourite memory and a pub companion who wouldn’t want to talk to him. All sounds like great, cool stuff. This is the 2nd part of our chat with Josh. You can listen to this ep…
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The Moon Under Water manifests itself in Melbourne as we’ve got energetic comedian and Taskmaster Australia star Josh Thomas building his dream pub! Let’s cut to the chase here. Here’s a pub for The Gays (TM). BUT *we think* others are also welcome. At the end of the day there’s certainly big gay energy floating about what is hands down a completel…
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The Pub Notice Board - ‘2% ABV Lies’
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Landlord Robbie and Regular Dan convene to open all your happenings, and there are applicants flooding in to be official pub correspondents across the globe. Elsewhere Dan accidentally goes into the wrong pub and there’s more happenings around Britain’s Cheapest Pint. And where is it that all this delightful conviviality correspondence floods into?…
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Aurie Styla - ‘My Mum Wants Me to Get Drunk’
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Step inside comedian Aurie Styla’s newly dreamed up pub, Left of the Lick, and have a drink. Here you’ll find chat about what it takes to be a good voice over artist, reminiscences about Notting Hill Carnival, and revelations about Aurie’s mum wanting him to get drunk. Aurie and Robbie also face off in Dan’s pub quiz, this time testing their knowle…
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The Moon Under Water is upping sticks and moving to South London, as comedian, actor, and voice over artist Aurie Styla designs his dream pub with a distinct ‘New Brixton’ feel. Love is in the air, coffee is in the pipes, and no way will there be any music coming out of a jukebox. Listen to find out why Guinness Punch should really be served with a…
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The Pub Notice Board - 'Tightly Tied to a Frenchman'
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Robbie and Dan both return from excursions across the English Channel packed with stories of French pub trips (or cocktail bars and some very English sounding pubs). On the noticeboard this week: a detailed exploration of the differences between drinking in Germany and the UK from a expat living in Berlin, tales of mid-gig pints, and another pre-we…
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