Mildly Informed

🌙  Late World Cup Pub Openings The Women's World Cup means late-night kick-offs... but should pubs stay open for them? Richie and Chris weigh up pints versus bedtimes. 🏰  The Maunsell Forts Abandoned sea forts sitting in the Thames Estuary. One of Britain's strangest landmarks—and quite possibly its coolest. 🏏The Women's World Cup Chris went to the big game, it was exciting! 🚇 Idiot...

🚆 Melting Train Tracks Every summer, Britain seems to discover that heat exists. Why do our railways struggle the moment the temperature creeps into the twenties? 🍫 Melting Chocolate A minor inconvenience or the best thing ever? Richie and Chris investigate the science—and etiquette—of chocolate in hot weather. ✈️ Ryanair's Wild Approach to PR Some companies hire expensive PR agencies. Ryanair s...

📺 ITV vs BBC: The World Cup Studio Debate Who does tournament coverage better? Better pundits, better presenters, better theme music? The lads enter one of British sport's most important arguments. 📈 Jevons Paradox A surprisingly fascinating economic theory that somehow finds its way into a comedy podcast. Efficiency goes up... so why do we end up using more of something? 🐦 Richie Is Not Much o...

👓  Meta AI Sunglasses The future is here. Apparently it involves talking to your glasses and hoping nobody notices. Can you do it without being creepy? 🎥  Ref Cam Football from the referee’s perspective. Revolutionary broadcasting innovation or a guaranteed route to motion sickness? 🚗  Sunroofs A luxury feature, a forgotten relic, or the quickest way to create unexpected wind noi...

🚽  The Life of Thomas Crapper Inventor of the toilet? Not quite. Legend of British plumbing? Absolutely. Richie and Chris separate fact from flushable fiction. 🗣️  Words Unique to Your Family Every family has them — strange phrases, made-up words and expressions that make perfect sense until you say them in public. 🚗  People Who Park Badly A topic guaranteed to generate strong opi...

🎙️ Mildly Informed returns, with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner once again moving effortlessly between childhood trauma, emotional hardship and chocolate-based analysis. This week’s episode is oddly nostalgic — covering everything from lost possessions to caravan holidays — before descending into a very serious debate about elite-tier chocolate bars. It’s emotional gro...

🎙️  Mildly Informed  returns, with  Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth  and  The Bugle’s Chris Skinner  once again diving headfirst into the topics that matter most — overpriced football merch, questionable holiday etiquette and increasingly absurd band names. This week’s episode is part game show, part political analysis and part travel rant, which is a fairly accurate de...

🎙️ It’s  Episode 50  of  Mildly Informed  — somehow. To celebrate the milestone,  Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth  and  The Bugle’s Chris Skinner  bring together everything the podcast does best: strange observations, everyday frustrations, TV chat and conversations that spiral almost immediately. From futuristic drones to old-school civic duty, this episode c...

🚫  Richie’s Broken iPhone A modern crisis. Panic, denial, and a new iOS 🛒  Supermarket Delivery Etiquette Where do you stand? What do you do? And how loud can someone knock? 🧱  Tiling Companies Are they all doomed? 🏫  Parents’ Evening Short slots, big stakes, and have they got better? 🎙️  Mildly Informed  returns, with  Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth  and...

This week... 🚗 Blackwall Tunnel Fines How bad can it really be? Turns out… quite bad. Admin, confusion and accusations of immorality 🍻 Outdoor Drinking A national pastime the second the sun appears. Glorious! 💅 Why Do Humans Have Fingernails? Useful tool or weird evolutionary leftover? The kind of question that probably didn’t need answering… but gets it anyway. 🚇 Tube Strikes Disruption, deba...

🍺 Why is Lidl Building a Pub? A sentence that raises more questions than it answers. Is this genius or has everyone lost the plot? 👓 Why Do New Glasses Take So Long? You’ve already chosen them. You’ve paid. What’s actually happening behind the scenes? 😂 The Best Kids’ Jokes Simple, terrible, and somehow impossible not to laugh at. ⛳ The Green Jacket at The Masters Golf trad...

🎙️  Mildly Informed  returns, with  Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth  and  The Bugle’s Chris Skinner  once again throwing around ideas, observations and inventions that probably shouldn’t exist. This week feels particularly experimental — both in terms of food and general life philosophy. Here’s where the chat goes: 🍽️  British Tapas (Invented Live) What if tapas… b...

🎙️  Mildly Informed  returns, with  Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth  and  The Bugle’s Chris Skinner  once again bouncing between big topics, great TV and oddly specific social observations. It’s one of those episodes where the conversation starts in space and ends in a very British emotional cul-de-sac. This week, the chat includes: 🌕  The Moon Landings A small st...

🎙️ Mildly Informed goes on the road (sort of), as Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner record this episode from a hotel room at a wedding - and launch our first ever campaign! On this week’s agenda: 🏨 Podcasting from a Hotel Room See how elite podcasters do a weekend away 🏊 Duncan Goodhew A genuine legend gets the Mildly Informed treatment. LET'S MAKE THIS MAN SIR DUNC! 🎀...

🎙️  Mildly Informed  is back: This week’s episode takes in architecture, PR nonsense and attempts at self-improvement… Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth  and  The Bugle’s Chris Skinner  once again chatting their way through culture, chaos and confectionery — with absolutely no plan and just enough opinion. On the conversational menu: 🎬  A Listed Cinema in Milton Keynes A...

🎙️  Mildly Informed  returns with  Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth  and  The Bugle’s Chris Skinner , once again drifting through the week’s cultural discoveries, strange internet finds and the sort of conversations that start serious and end somewhere completely different. This episode takes an unexpectedly dark turn — before quickly becoming ridiculous again. On the agenda...

🎙️  Mildly Informed  returns with  Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth  and  The Bugle’s Chris Skinner , once again solving life’s smaller mysteries through loosely structured conversation and questionable personal anecdotes. This week the chat wanders through dogs, seasonal food politics and one deeply questionable evening out. As ever, strong opinions are formed quickly and su...

🎙️ Mildly Informed returns, with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner settling in for another episode of enthusiastic chat, snack analysis and completely unqualified television criticism. This week’s conversation swings comfortably between food nostalgia and prestige TV — exactly the sort of topics that deserve strong opinions formed almost instantly. On the agenda (loosely)...

🎙️ This week on  Mildly Informed ,  Absolute Radio star Richie Firth  and  The Bugle’s Chris Skinner  are back doing what they do best — chatting absolute nonsense and accidentally forming opinions along the way. The conversation drifts (as it always does) from mildly awkward social situations to full cultural breakdowns, with several unexpected snack-based diversions. Exp...

🎙️  Welcome to Mildly Informed  – the podcast that won’t train your dog, reduce the price of chocolate, or curate a museum… but will absolutely review all three Join  Richie Firth  and  Chris Skinner  as they stumble through another week of domestic drama, cultural excursions and confectionery outrage. From canine chaos to Easter economics, nothing is safe from mild s...

🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t get you an autograph, save you from gym class humiliation, or explain the meaning of life… but will absolutely talk about all three. Join Richie Firth and Chris Skinner as they move seamlessly from low-stakes cringe to genuinely big questions. It’s an episode that starts with professional idiots and ends somewhere uncomfortably reflective. Joh...

🎙️  Welcome to Mildly Informed  – the podcast that won’t get you into a lido, identify an orca, or bring back proper football… but will happily reminisce about all three. Join  Richie Firth  and  Chris Skinner  as they wade through another week of nostalgia, niche wildlife knowledge and the creeping sense that things were somehow better “back then”. Mild insight only,...

🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t train your puppy, shut down dodgy pranks, or rename a storm… but will absolutely have opinions on all three. Join Richie Firth and Chris Skinner as they tackle another week of modern nonsense, canine temptation and meteorological branding. Expect mild insights, strong feelings, and no practical advice. This week’s episode features: 🐶 New Pupp...

🎙️  Welcome to Mildly Informed  – the podcast that can’t predict the future, fix modern technology, or improve the sporting calendar… but will happily review the year anyway. In this episode,  Richie Firth  and  Chris Skinner  take stock of  2025 so far , casting their mildly informed eye over the things that have defined the year — from what we’re eating at lunc...

🎙️  Welcome to Mildly Informed  – the podcast that won’t fix your loft, improve your tram network, or hit the right note at karaoke… but will absolutely overanalyse all of them. Join  Richie Firth  and  Chris Skinner  as they tumble through another week of questionable decisions, domestic chaos and surprisingly strong feelings about dried fruit. Mild insight only. Let...