🎧 From the mind of John Patrick Higgins comes a sentimental and festive tail of heavy drinking and old age for the delight and delectation of the world... 🎧 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Count Backwards

Sep 18th, 2020 26m 49s

Udo Von Eherhazi, the Count Bachwurst, was a hungry, undead kind of guy - and tonight was date night! But the years of sitting around his flat watching daytime television and waiting for the sun to go down might have taken the edge of off his r

No One Remembers the Gatecrasher's Name

Sep 18th, 2020 16m 13s

Paul Reverb is on a mission. He's 18, he's wearing eye-liner and he's just crashed the party. Sadly for Paul the party never notices: no one remembers the gatecrasher's name. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Aug 21st, 2020 28m 59s

Jimmy Gemini just wanted to be a funny man. Sadly for Jimmy no one ever laughed, either with him or even at him. Until he found the book. After that everybody laughed. Jimmy slayed them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati

The Bad Ideas Man

Aug 6th, 2020 25m 46s

Paul Holbrook had failed in life and now all he wanted to do was to drink alone at the bar and to despair. He couldn't even manage that, not once he had come to the attention of The Bad Ideas Man... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo

The Pint Of No Return

Jul 23rd, 2020 22m 17s

Paul is in the pub with his two oldest friends. But this is a story of male friendship - the worst kind of friendship - and the evening dissolves into drunkenness, confusion and an intimate encounter with the bar room floor. Hosted on Acast. Se

Temp

Jul 9th, 2020 24m 54s

Pithier Communications is an old, old company and Paul is it's newest employee. Paul has big dreams about the corporate life, so its a shame he is about to understand the true nature of a temporary contract... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri

The Narwhal

Jun 25th, 2020 25m 4s

James Town has a small problem but a bulging bank balance. So when he embarks upon augmentation surgery, against the advice of his doctors, he wants the creme de la creme... the fabled Narwhal procedure. (Contains adult themes, dear listener).

Cafés Of Desire

Jun 18th, 2020 11m 30s

Wannabe writer Paul heads to his local cafe looking for inspiration. Instead he ends up babysitting a fellow patron's handbag. It is a job he takes very seriously... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Giant Undertaking

Jun 11th, 2020 17m 13s

The Town Council have a problem: a four hundred foot tall dead giant problem. Luckily, Ted Cavendish, proprietor of a cat-food canning factory, imagines he has the solution... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Please, Please, Mr Postman

Jun 4th, 2020 22m 33s

Someone keeps sending Clive parcels in the post. He doesn't know who and he doesn't know why but he does know that the packages are beautifully wrapped. And strangely warm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Rum Barbers

May 28th, 2020 20m 30s

Brian Spindoe's "Hairodrome" salon is going nowhere fast until his assistant, Steve, brings a book on practical magic to work. And a gingerbread man... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Horrible Men

May 19th, 2020 17m 56s

A modern fable in which a young and horrible man enters the strange world of womankind and discovers the wonders of grooming, lateral thinking and laundry that bends. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.