The Big Muddler

Woah! I thought The Big Muddler was a comedy show, but this episode's been hijacked by a documentary podcast called True Garbage . Everything gets a bit serious as presenter Jeff Flatley welcomes you Garbageers to another sensational expose. This time it's a revelation that will shake your boots (not your booty, no, your booty must remain unshaken). Jeff reveals how a conspiracy for worl...

Huh? How come David Eagle - comedian, folk singer, podcaster, and a man barely past forty years old - is popping up as a guest on post-war podcast The Rest is Jollity ? It certainly sounds like him. There's not just innuendo but overt smuttery too, references to ancient variety trio The Young'un Krazee Gang and memories of 'West Harterleepool' as host Worth Matravers insists on...

Ooh it's chilly here. Not just because we're inside a refrigerated unit. Something menacing has descended upon this corner of the underworld - and justice is about to be served cold. The boss has found an excellent, albeit terrifying, way to get people to talk. But watch out. Listen too long to The Big Muddler and you'll soon be spilling secrets yourself.  Fortunately there are dist...

The enemy are closing in. They’re approaching from Lowestoft, AND Beccles. Worst of all, they’ve got a new weapon, some kind of audio device. But will regulation ear defenders be strong enough? Unlikely.  Actually, not at all. Few humans can withstand this level of insanity. Yes, The Big Muddler is bursting across the battlefield. And few will survive unscathed. For those who do, here’s what lies...

Season Three is here! - heralded by a global mystery in Seoul. A strange box has appeared on the stage of k-pop supergroup JeanStarz. Let's pray it's not an alien music box... Once again The Big Muddler brings unwholesome variety to your ears. New this season is a phone-in where the callers sound oddly familiar. But that's as far as the novelty goes. Otherwise it's the same mir...

Boy did they laugh. Yes, The Big Muddler is back before a live audience, this time at the magical festival of FolkEast, held each summer in deep, flat, golden Suffolk. It was late on Sunday evening. A sturdy, sozzled crowd had gathered to check out the fuss about this new sketch comedy podcast. Who knows what they were expecting. But what they got ...   ... was a cheeky hamper of cheap hilarity. L...

Here's a little treat while you're waiting for the next full show. It's the Great Crustaceans! We haven't heard from them in a while. But Cornwall's premier shellfish rock band have been busy doing what they do best - arguing. Bassist Squid Vicious and guitarist Razors are just settling in for their afternoon altercation, when drummer Spider bursts in with news. He's...

Welcome to The Big Muddler's Seaside Special - recorded before a bubbly crowd at the gorgeous Manor Pavilion in Devon. It's August 2025 and Sidmouth Folk Festival has bravely scheduled a live recording of this 'comedy podcast' by festival veteran Matthew Crampton. But would such strange radio work live on stage? Find out for yourself... There are Listed Jokes, a chorus singalon...

It's a Muddler Interruption! Sorry for the delay in regular programming, due to "A&E visits" and "an unexpected heart condition" (yeah right....). Here's a short sop to satisfy your Muddler cravings. It's a nugget from the archives - the infamous banned episode from old-time podcast The Rest is Jollity. The boys have booked a chat with confectionery mascot Si...

This extra-length episode features a spooky winter story - fab! - which starts at 18.35 (if you want to dodge the nonsense beforehand). Why not gather the family for its 17 minutes of chilling delight... Meanwhile, my goddaughter Jasmine wants to visit Father Christmas, but this ambition is proving trickier than expected. As we tour one dodgy grotto after another, I worry for the state of the nati...

We're with some armed marines, crossing wild seas off Scotland to check on an isolated lighthouse. Gosh, what's driven those keepers crazy? Could it be? No! Well, maybe. Yes. It is! It's another edition of The Big Muddler. And on this bird-strewn rock, we all need to dodge the guano. Ah, too late... Well, perhaps best to move along, and soon we'll reach that antique podcast The...

It's not every day you get to experience The Big Ride within Jakarta's Jade Megaphallus Tower. But something's loose in the lift. The muzak's turned rogue. And, oh my goodness, there's an outbreak of variety in this Southeast Asian skyscraper. Better head to the Sapparo McNulty Whisky Bar for a snifter, or the Jasmine Pamper Club for something relaxing but, whatever you do...

We're back, despite popular demand. The Big Muddler mounts another aural assault on your eardrums, unleashing Season Two of a podcast that no-one has described as 'the greatest variety-based radio entertainment of all time.' Once again we start somewhere unlikely. This time it's a field in Pennsylvania, where hardcore battlefield re-enactors turn violent when their activities a...

It's time to get feckless in Texas, at a strange simian start-up built by the muskrat himself. Why are those apes serving beverages to their human guests? And how will they serenade the tea party? All gets revealed in another awful edition of this sketch comedy podcast. But it's no ordinary episode. This is the Season Finale of Series One and, boy, do they milk that one. From the America...

Blimey, this new episode is all over the place. It starts at Everest base camp, but soon goes downhill. There are trips to South America, back to Tibet, and good 'ol London Town. The band on the beach, Great Crustaceans, ponder the possibility of a festival called Crustonberry, but it's a 'curated lifestyle festival' - with foraging! - so guitarist Razors hates the idea. Denzel...

The neurosurgeons can’t believe what they’ve found lurking in their patient’s cerebellum. And once again The Big Muddler makes its presence known. In another, ridiculous episode of this ‘comedy’ podcast, we venture from central London to somewhere tropical for a client meeting that turns chilly. Back on the beach, the Great Crustaceans open their own nightclub, but soon attract unwelcome visitors....

What a revelation! Learn exactly why Stonehenge was built. Such truth has long eluded experts but now slips out during a dodgy variety show. But that's not all you get from this 26 minutes of mirth and mayhem. We start in West London, where a sensitive unearthing is soon derailed by mysterious sounds. Thence to America's deep south, where a revival meeting welcomes an oddly low-key forei...

Well, it should have been a routine coupling at London Zoo's mating laboratory (aka The Shag Lab) but something unusual happened. And once again, The Big Muddler has muscled into town with its dubious blend of 'variety entertainment'. This time we meet Cornish correspondent - and phantom flautist - Denzel Rumpo, witness the stars of soap opera Great Crustaceans winding each other up...

It starts in Egypt, but how does it end? With The Big Muddler, you can never be sure where you’re going. This edition – THE FIRST EVER EPISODE – heads down the beach with resident soap opera Great Crustaceans. Twice we cross to America to catch up with some entitled Brits. There’s a spooky story from Kathmandu, and several visits to Muddler Live – a land whose people love to laugh and sing. Your t...