Episodes

  • MIKE GAYLE: “Stallion thighs.”

    MIKE GAYLE: “Stallion thighs.”
    Jul 13 2022
    Novelist Mike Gayle has forged a career in industries largely populated by women. He’s a former agony uncle, responding for dispensing advice to worried teenage girls, and his bestselling books like Turning 30 and My Legendary Girlfriend explore relationships and manhood in really accessible ways.
    Here he talks men, women, pole vaulting, great calves, stallion thighs, lovely fingernails and the day he realised he absolutely definitely needed glasses.
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    57 mins
  • MARTIN ROBERTS: “I had minutes to live.”

    MARTIN ROBERTS: “I had minutes to live.”
    Jul 6 2022
    It’s one year of Manatomy! Today, the hugely affable Martin Roberts joins Danny & Phil with an urgent message. Martin is one of daytime TV’s most familiar faces, thanks not just to Homes Under the Hammer, but also his appearances on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and for stripping off for The Real Full Monty.
    But what he thought was Long-COVID and took him to the doctor’s turned out to be something else incredibly dangerous, and if he hadn’t sought help he was told he’d have had only minutes to live. What on earth is that like, and where’s he at now?
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    52 mins
  • JONATHAN GOODWIN: “There’s only now.”

    JONATHAN GOODWIN: “There’s only now.”
    Jun 29 2022
    America’s Got Talent and BBC America star Jonathan Goodwin is the Welsh daredevil and escapologist famous for his incredible acts of bravery, skill and risk. It’s what got him his own show - The Incredible Mr Goodwin - and a reputation for thrilling audiences worldwide.
    But in just one moment, his whole world - and body - changed.
    Today, we talk fear, risk, mindset, and paralysis. We can’t thank Jonathan enough for his openness and insight. Find him on Twitter at @TheDaredevil
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • JOHNNY VAUGHAN: “Bang-on six foot.”

    JOHNNY VAUGHAN: “Bang-on six foot.”
    Jun 22 2022
    The lightning-quick TV and radio broadcasting genius that is Johnny Vaughan is our fiftieth guest on Manatomy, and it’s important you appreciate he is bang on six-feet tall, with feet also a remarkably specific length.
    Today, he takes us from top to toe in typically freeform manner, talking heart attack adverts, tan-lines, paunches, quads, incredible sportsmanship, and style (his stories about selling sexy boxer shorts will never be forgotten).
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    50 mins
  • PETE MCKEE: “I’m aware I’ve had the full benefit of someone passing.”

    PETE MCKEE: “I’m aware I’ve had the full benefit of someone passing.”
    Jun 15 2022
    This guy is an absolute dude. A pop-artist who took up the game after leaving Tesco at 40, he quickly became a favourite of the Gallagher brothers, Arctic Monkeys and more. He can sum up the life of a body with just a few of his brushstrokes - despair, delight, love, angst. But his own body - raised on Sheffield stodge - has given him a few surprises, and in this episode, he tells Danny & Phil about the shock his body one day surprised him with - but which led to more than a little enlightenment.
    Talking music, surprise organ transplants, fear, mortality, and the guilt of a total stranger giving you life… it’s the thoughtful and brilliant Pete McKee.
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    59 mins
  • SCOTT BENNETT: “Uniball!”

    SCOTT BENNETT: “Uniball!”
    Jun 8 2022
    Winner of the Comic’s Comic Award, the hugely funny and affable Scott Bennett joinsDanny & Phil this week, to talk twisted testicles, his wonderful hair, exhaustion, anxiety, mid-life, and the unfairness of genetics.
    Scott’s always gigging, but has a full tour coming up - find all the 2022 dates atscottbennettcomedy.co.uk
    And check out the podcast he does with his very funny wife, Jemma - Brew with theBennetts (@BWTBPod on Twitter).
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • MARK WATSON: “An odd relationship with self-esteem.”

    MARK WATSON: “An odd relationship with self-esteem.”
    Jun 1 2022
    Thoughtful and erudite comic Mark Watson has put his body through a lot over the years. Whether it’s adrenaline, stress, panic or literally ending up near-starving on a desert island eating snails.
    Here he talks with Danny & Phil about booze, self-criticism, fear, losing control, anxiety, confidence, doubt and so much more. It’s a great chat with a man who, like a lot of men and women, maybe needs to forgive himself more.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • SAM DELANEY: “Bravado, bullshit, booze and bugle.”

    SAM DELANEY: “Bravado, bullshit, booze and bugle.”
    May 25 2022
    The brilliant journalist and author Sam Delaney is also the brains behind the excellent The Reset podcast and newsletter. Why The Reset? Because Sam had to do just that.
    In this episode, he talks just as frankly but always as entertainingly as he writes, about booze, drugs, addiction, anxiety, hair loss, and the trip to IKEA that went very wrong indeed.
    It all sounds like A Lot, but Sam is such great company that it flies by. Our thanks to him.
    Check out The Reset at https://samdelaney.substack.com/ if you feel like any of the issues raised need a friend to help you talk it through.
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    1 hr and 11 mins