New Alan Partridge Podcast & This Time S2 Coming

[The Bumlord]

It's also on the 'Tube if you're down with the kids:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylg3HAOue1M

[olliebean]

First 20-odd seconds are missing from that YouTube version.

[sutin]

Here's an mp3 version...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1swSQdBJK06PD5G1l5Mw6x-El6GVAE42Q/view?usp=sharing

[Dewt]

Without wanting to reduce appreciation for the MP3, the YouTube version is a lot easier to hear if there's background noise. The MP3 loses a lot of high-end in the voice.

[buttgammon]

Thanks to everyone who has provided links! I really enjoyed this, especially the phone call towards the end.

[Mobius]

https://mega.nz/file/YSx2TAKI#3gh6Jw99xKYOx0Roq1X98bsRJbqyWflsZ7nyAAwuHYM

Here go

Top one!

edit - the mp3 one Sutin posted works on your phone if you press the download button on that page, it'll open in a new window so you can play it without having to 'save' it

[Mobius]

About a minute in and laughing already. So good to have new Partridge...

[the]

Without wanting to reduce appreciation for the MP3, the YouTube version is a lot easier to hear if there's background noise. The MP3 loses a lot of high-end in the voice.

I think billiabus cricketeer recorded their copy ambiently, whereas the YT version sounds like a direct copy of the audio stream (minus the first 20 seconds).

Here's an mp3 made from the YT audio, but with the first 20 seconds reinstated using billiabus cricketeer's recording.

(Nb. This link only lasts a week.)

[Mr Faineant]

Diddly-dit-di-dee...I liked it.

[buttgammon]

Can't get the jingle out of my head, and I keep thinking about the Murray mints too. Roll on September!

[solidified gruel merchant]

"I hope he's washing himself."

Lovely stuff!

[PeasOnSticks]

I assumed he was referring to Carol, but could be wrong.

Me too, but on a re-listen I noticed he refers to his 'ex-wife' later in the podcast, after the 'wife' reference.

[amateur]

Thought this was a lovely bit of business.

The little moments of physical comedy were very nicely done, and I particularly enjoyed Alan occasionally getting out of breath. As you would on a right old ramble.

Pronunciation of "online" also raised quite a titter.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

I did enjoy this (thanks for the links!) but let's start uncharitably with some mild to moderate criticism:

I thought it would have been best at first if there had been someone in the house and he'd backed off but still had the brass neck to poke around the garage or garden, or try to keep on looking at it from a stupid distance away. As a result the getting caught bit felt a bit overdue when it happened.

I also felt the rambling segment was a little bit bleh-bleh-bleh other than the predictable (yet funny) falling over bit and the predictable (yet funny) overstep (I can't remember the line but he really leant on it as he went off balance) parts. The poem was good, the delivery of the oh-so-smug AUTUMN LEEEEAVES final line was Partri-fection, Perfecpartiction, Perftrictgian.

It was relieving when it wasn't just Partridge all the way through and there were other characters for him to bounce off. The theme is a bit overfamiliar for me too. We've had A Rambling Alan, Places of My Life, Nomad etc before when he's been walking around.

So yes, nice to have new material, it wasn't outstanding but it has some laugh out loud bits and I'm hoping the rest of the series will develop upon the concept as MMM ended up doing (can't we just have more MMM? Would that hurt?)

[bgmnts]

It was fine, a few hearty chuckles.

[Nice Relaxing Poo]

I love the wise tone he takes after he decides that the man in the house is divorced. It all becomes very "Been there, done that son" like a reformed alcoholic sagely pointing out the habits of drinker, where the booze is hidden etc.

[SteveDave]

I laughed in the street at the "

Spoiler alert

Buy some fat socks and just put them in the drawer...love it

[close]

"

[Dave The Triffids]

I loved it - I'm always nervous when new Partridge stuff comes along but this allayed my fears - some great moments. 
"Trees are my porn!"

[sevendaughters]

a solid distribution of big laughs interspersed with chuckles and a side flap of attention holding.

[Nice Relaxing Poo]

Can't get the jingle out of my head

It's the slightly manic sound of his voice as he tries to hit the notes and then the out of breath tail off "...with Alan Partridge"

[amateur]

Real sadness in his timbre.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Last year there was a bbc2/bbc4 series called Yorkshire Walks which was shot with a mix of go-pro and drone footage. The sole rambler occasionally interspersed the countryside scenes with selections of poetry and they always filmed shots of her bumping into other people and stopping for a chat (at rather convenient moments). I am pretty sure the Autumn Leaves section was inspired by that.

[Retinend]

Alan: (joking but not joking) "why can't you just admit the fact that I have a better house than you?"
...chuckle it out and they can't take offence. _09:57



I liked this joke, but thought it odd how it ended with a joke about "knifing" this person and, if that wasn't enough, stabbing his ex wife. Is that canon?

[amateur]

Alan: (joking but not joking) "why can't you just admit the fact that I have a better house than you?"
...chuckle it out and they can't take offence. _09:57



I liked this joke, but thought it odd how it ended with a joke about "knifing" this person and, if that wasn't enough, stabbing his ex wife. Is that canon?

I assumed from the context and follow up it was a verbal knifing, which is the sort of joke Alan might make, but it wasn't unambiguous.

[Retinend]

Autumn Leaves
by Alan Partridge



How sad the falling of leaves of autumn.

How melancholic the passing, autumn,
Half 'twixt summer and winter.
How melancholic the brown sludge of fallen autumn leaves;

Gone the crunch underfoot;
Now the squelch of rain-sodden brown.
How sad;
How triste:
This season 'twixt summer,
Not yet winter.

And yet it is not bleak like the mid-winter;
It is not unforgiving.

So let us stay a while here.
Replete in the clemency of autumn;
Swaddled in coat but not too big;
Replete in jumper-chunky socks.

My hair grows longer now
Warm strands of my lower hair
To keep warm my neck.
Heck it's cold.


But now winter comes

And autumn




leaves.

_(15:09)



"Jumper-chunky (socks)" is my new favourite adjective. Also I love the doubled use of "replete" and "'twixt" (the second time incompletely) and the worthy-sounding syntax of "hair to keep warm my neck" / "the squelch of brown" / "swaddled in coat" / "the mid-winter". "Warm strands of my lower hair" is also a hilarious piece of bad poetry.

[Retinend]

Hold up, this is actually the best part:

[ImmaculateClump]

jumper-chunky socks.

Oh, I like that! My shit brain just assumed a comma.
I've got a few pair of those, best thing in the world on a cold day.

[Pancake]

Yes it's a verbal knifing, something about going to the gym

[Pancake]

Which is obviously where she would go to drink yellow stuff in tins and do heavy french kissing, come on Carol!

[Pancake]

Is there any indication of what you'll get for your £20? If it's 18 DRM free MP3 files (other formats are available) then fine. If it's some shitty thing that you can only listen to in Audible forget it, I'll find a pirated version somewhere.

I wish they wouldn't call things that aren't podcasts podcasts though.

It's an Audiobook, it's only a podcast in-world