Lovejoy Actually

It’s finally here! Polly’s favourite episode! A lovely church, a vicar who is not Ian McKellen and a mysterious object this week as Lovejoy has a run in with the county archaelogist (which is apparently a job) and dodgy Derek Rudge (a notorious low flier.) Plus another dog using a priceless item for its own ends (please note we are NOT blaming the dog.) We discuss Eric’s professional development,...

In the series that just keeps on giving it's another one of Polly's favourite episodes! (But not her favourite favourite, that's up next.) Listen along as we enjoy the Peter Pan of Suffolk's latest escapades this week, awash with romantic mystery and a significant amount of rainfall as "the hottest guy in the world" gets super upset about a completely modern, brand new, not at all antique in any w...

What a load of old Sollochs this week as we completely fail to understand the point of a (not particularly mysterious) sword that Lovejoy has become obsessed with, after the improbably older Vicki found it in her new flat. Which is kind of his flat, really. Agile Lovejoy - miraculously recovered from his broken leg - clambers over rooftops as Eric sports a really fetching t shirt and Tinker demons...

A double scoop of jalopy please and a sprinkling of asides this week as an incapacitated Lovejoy has the oddest dream… Join us as we delight in Bert Kwouk’s presence and marvel at the NHS in the 90s when it was clearly fine to have any amount of visitors at all sorts of hours and your doctor would drop everything to do keyhole surgery on a leaf, a plaster cast, a terracotta pig etc if it made you...

A lady of an aristocratic bent in need of aid and too embarrassed to ask for help? A scheming posh bloke who can't afford death duties? Champagne at 11.20 on a Thursday morning? Yes, it's a full house on Lovejoy Bingo this week with a Line Of Duty-esque storyline, much to Helen's delight, as Field Agent E Catchpole saves the day (much to Em’s!) This week our resident toast rack expert has a fantas...

Pour yourself a chianti/crack open a surreptitious can for our latest Italian flavoured episode as we discover just who should own “the medals of the brother of Jane’s old housekeeper Vera.” We spend this week with a morose and yet terribly poetic Lovejoy, as he’s cajoled into a funeral on a boat (his least favourite place) leaving Eric to explore the virtues of Catalytic Acrylic Polymer Resin and...

Tangents galore this week as we enjoy(?) the inevitable breakdown of Lovejoy and Victoria’s burgeoning romance… SOB! Pass us a tissue, we’ve wine on our shirts. In which we agree we ALL enjoy the music of t’Smiths and THE Lightning Seeds whilst watching this week’s special guests (The) Hothouse Flowers. We discuss being starstruck, Listen out for our dubious Irish accents, Victoria’s leitmotif and...

Is painting dead? It’s certainly not feeling very well in this episode where we meet the UK’s leading East Anglian contemporary landscape painter, the demanding Mrs. Dalrymple and the confused Elsie Barratt - who definitely isn’t dead, despite Eric’s protestations. Detective Polly is also on the case this week - and she smells a set up… what do you think, listener? Look out for Lurky Man, Eric the...

Lovejoy and his lascivious face is back and so are we, with the first episode of SERIES THREE (how?!) And what an episode - it really has everything: a fantastic score, some Serious Peril, Eric in not just one but TWO hats, JOANNA FLIPPIN LUMLEY, the plight of the indigenous people of Peru, a new haircut, an excellent suit, Slough Grammar and Tinker in a monkery. Plus a chance for Helen to exercis...

Another bonus episode to tide you over til Series 3 begins. We took our #1 Patron Kym Brosnan to the pub and talked all things Lovejoy in possibly the most hen do episode ever - pop in your headphones and pour yourself a prosecco for an immersive experience! The uncut version is available at www.patreon.com/lovejoyactually if you like this kind of thing (and if you don’t… join us there anyway and...

We're taking a break between series, so enjoy these scraps from the cutting room floor while you wait for Series Three - there's a longer version on Patreon, which is also the first place we'll be posting our meeting with Kym before a shorter verison airs here on May 1st. We'll be back for the first episode of Series Three on May 15th - mark your calendars now! This episode of the podcast was edit...

BRI-AN BLESS-ED joins the cast this week and we’re here for it listener, we are here for it. We’ve also got our first podcast coup with an amazing Behind The Scenes email from Terry H himself! This extra long episode takes in both parts of the Series Two finale, and we’re delighted to see the return of an old chum from the very first series - Mr. Frobel (complete with bacon sandwich.) Lovejoy’s pu...

“Deck it out with antiques - they don’t have to be new ones!” None of us can make head nor tail of what’s happening this episode as we don’t know if Lovejoy knows what the others think that he knows even though they don’t know if he knows that they know he knows. You see what we mean? By the end of it we weren’t even sure if jewellery is a real thing any more. Helen can blame the Lemsip and Pol th...

As Tinker observes “the best of us can fall prey to alcoholic fantasy” but is this really what’s happened to Lovejoy in the case of the disappearing body? Join us for another farcical (and slightly sweary) romp through Lovejoyland as Pol delights in a diminutive ninja, Em has an unsettling Bed knobs & Broomsticks flashback and Helen stubbornly refuses to suspend her disbelief. We learn about D...

It’s a real trip down Memory Lane (via Ambleside Avenue) this week for the intrepid hens, as they manfully untangle another Lovejoy mystery plot with only the aid of alcohol free beer. Well, it was January. And somehow it STILL manages to sound like a hen do as we discuss the fine line between Art and filth, our mad teenage obsessions and that time Pol made tea for James Bond. This episode we meet...

More embarrassed aristocracy (well, film aristocracy - Jean Kent!) this week as Lovejoy leaps to Madeleine Gilbert’s rescue when she falls foul of chimpanzee death duties. Yes, really. Lots of lovely peril for us to enjoy in this high scoring episode as Eric panic hires a boat, Tinker leaves a message in a bottle (which he had to drink, obviously) and Lovejoy’s shirt battles with his voice for whi...

Buckle in snowflakes! We’ve some original 90s attitudes to unpick this episode, as we swallow a few spoonfuls of misogyny and get vaguely uncomfortable at people putting on accents. Lovejoy is inexplicably skint once again, despite flogging that Chaucer - perhaps because he’s finally paying Eric. Some shadowy men in suits offer him some mch needed cash to track down a mystery artist who is not as...

Happy New Year everyone, we’re back from the pub! In this episode we enjoy some absolutely cracking writing, as Lady Jane and Lovejoy work together to open what appears to be Britain’s first gastropub with an old army pal of Tinker’s. Dictator dress-up, shellfish metaphors and a teacake controversy all feature this week, as Polly struggles through a hangover and Helen struggles through the plot. T...

Enjoy a Christmas bonus episode all about the Lovejoy novels by Jonathan Gash. Recorded in the field (aka the pub) listening to this one with headphones is highly recommended! We discuss the novels and the TV series with Em's mate Andrew who (for some reason) has read almost all of Jonathan Gash's output. We discuss Death in Venice, the Judas Pair and Gold from Gemini as we get progressively drunk...

Pulling cardigans at the ready, it’s another episode of Lovejoy Actually! This week Pol loses the plot, Em raises her concerns for the academic community (careful Prof!) and we discover yet another language Helen can speak all whilst enjoying a suit made of exciting thread, arguing about egg spoons and being delighted by a cameo from Mickey La Souris (who now seems to be living in Friar Park… we t...

Lovejoy finds himself doing yet another favour for Jane and Eric falls foul of a gang of bullying bin men in a mysterious dumpster-diving commotion this week. We discuss giving pets human names, the past participle of bin dive (bin dove? bin... divven?) and Brixton's next culinary destination "Dirty Spaghetti" whilst being only slightly weirded out by an elderly dead woman's stockings and some tip...

Vulnerable Lovejoy is on the case this week, doing a Mysterious Favour for Jane and taking a bronze to the head in the process. Ouch! We’re delighted to see Celia Imrie join the cast for this episode, as we unlearn all we’ve learned about what is and isn’t illegal when it comes to forgery, swap our very best dog impressions and get surprised by a lamp. The original Lovejoy episode was written by T...

Lovejoy’s back and so are we! Welcome to the first episode of Series Two, where we can’t tell a dresser from a dressing table, Em gets much too excited about the Wisley Green’s Women’s Institute and Eric is sorely disappointed by a chocolate seahorse (who wouldn’t be?) In the first episode of the second series Lovejoy is released from prison and decides he'll play detective to find out just who fr...

Show us yer campanile, it’s the season - ahem - SERIES finale as Lovejoy takes Venice for some reason we still haven’t completely worked out, despite diligently reading the original novel. Twins! Guns! Soft jazz! Knockers! It’s all here. Enjoy Pol going full Lovejoy Rainman with trivia ranging from British film of the 1960s to, well British sitcoms of the 1990s as we dissect this double episode in...

Swearing, spoilers and cocaine this week as Lovejoy's spidey senses tingle enough to pick up a cheapy antique clock with some not-so-cheapy love letters stuffed inside. This episode sees him haring around the countryside "doing the eyes" at anyone who gets in his way, data protection rules be damned. "Borrowing" artefacts from a military museum, squeezing info out of solicitors and gaining entry t...