Podcast à la mode #3

The Adam and Joe Podcast
By Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish

By the time you read this, it should be April where you live! If it isn't April where you live, then we strongly suggest you stop living near The Large Hadron Collider! But for the majority of you all, and us also for we are part of the greater we, it is now April. And this is glorious news, because that means it's time for Adam and Joe to return to broadcast! A pair of radio-presenters with a difference (the difference being talent and creativity), Adam and Joe are now available to you on a weekly basis, and hilarity can once more reign down upon your houses! As a note, you do not need a skylight in order for hilarity to reign down into your house, as hilarity operates in a manner similar to - but not akin to - radiation poisioning. It can penetrate your roof, unless you live in a house of lead.

Do you live in a house of lead? If so, then we'd love to hear from you! There are experiments that we've always wanted to try, but have never had the facilities to enable.


What Happens In This Podcast?

Adam and Joe used to present on telly back in the nineties, doing their own show for years as part of Channel 4's dedication to reaching a youthful audience. Their unique type of silly childish humour proved to be a big hit, as they were intelligent and witty without isolating dumb people, and they could perform pranks without being mean-spirited of nasty. They were nice chums that liked computer games and comics, and they were on telly! What an inspiration for a whole generation of bloggers they must've become, surely, perhaps. Well once they stopped doing their telly show they moved to radio, and started to do much the same as they did before, only this time on the radio. Um, obviously.

So you can hear their first radio shows via the XFM Adam and Joe podcast, which is still available on the ol' iTunes. But more importantly, you can hear highlights from their current radio show on BBC 6music even as we speak! Can you imagine listening to Adam and Joe and reading Wilftonville at the same time, chums? The sheer possibilities such an event could bring! Their regular features include Text The Nation, where they read out readers' suggestions about things like "what should the next crime show be about" and get answers like "Sgt Wiggle The Worm. He later gets cut in half and the short end becomes his sidekick". There's also the ever-popular SONG WARS in which the two literally WAR against each other via the use of SONGS, and many other bits of silly banter and giggling.

We Recommend This Podcast!

If you enjoy the podcast, you should also watch Hot Fuzz! Both Adam and Joe are in it, as they are good friends with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright. They may also have appeared in Spaced, but we can't remember. And also! Joe's directed a film and written a film this year - Attack The Block, and it's going to be brilliant! You can find Adam on his youtube channel, also Joe co-wrote the new Tintin movie with Steven Moffat. Amazing!

Capital FM is Attempting To Destroy Yorkshire

Sometimes I write articles which everyone can enjoy. Sometimes I write them for an audience of about seven people. Luckily, seven people makes up the majority of the readership of Wilftonville, so it doesn’t matter too much when I write about a radio station exclusive only to certain parts of England. Capital FM is one of the most popular commercial radio stations in England, based in London. The station is probably a little less popular than Classical FM, but I haven’t done any research as per tradition so that’s all guesswork and hear’ say. It’s pure and simple that Capital FM, one of the most popular non-BBC stations in Britain, should expand their reach and attempt to appeal to other parts of the country. Nation. Whatever England is.

Capital FM used to only be received in London, you see, while Yorkshire has its own set of local radio stations which reference local events and don’t play the weather forecast because the weather forecast never changes in Yorkshire: it’s always raining. But as of 2011, things have changed.



As showcased in this advert featuring Rihanna (of “is it spelt Rhianna or Rihanna?” fame) and the Black Eyed Peas, Capital FM are moving their radio towers so they can cover the whole of our nation/country/colony. This is good news for all of us who enjoy listening to Bruno Mars' extensive back-catalogue of songs, as they are played every ten minutes or so on the station, but what does it mean for the country as a whole? This must be a good thing, right? More choice?

Well no, as you may have surmised from the title of this article. I believe strongly that Capital FM are attempting to ruin Yorkshire forever. And now to explain myself!!!!

Looking through the Capital FM playlist, it’s notable (as anything is notable if you own a notepad, I suppose) to note (with your notepad, remember) that there are no performers there from the North of the country. There’s no Kaiser Chiefs. Or Corinne-Bailey Rae. Instead we have Olly Murs and Adele and there’s not even any Diana Vickers on there. To explain this for anyone from ‘not the UK’ who is still inexplicably reading this blog which surely makes no sense to them, every single artist on the Capital FM playlist is either from London or America. Every. Single. One.

So logically, it must be seen that as the NSDAP systematically ruled out the existence of all newspapers which were not NSDAP newspapers, or how FOX is one-by-one buying all the channels which opposes FOX, Capital FM are replacing all Yorkshire music with London music. Boring, grimy, London music. Why would anyone want to listen to music by people from London? What have they got to sing about – the high price or property, or the congestion charge? Yorkshire, Lancashire, even Liverpoolshire are places of natural beauty and unnatural lyricism. We are the counties where GREEN THINGS grow, where people go to escape London because it’s so boring. So why would we want to listen to London music while walking through the Lake District with a hot-pot in one hand and a can of Tetleys in the other?

Capital FM wants you to believe that Yorkshire doesn't exist. CONFOUND THEM by picking up your copy of Different Class (we know you own one) and play it loud. Play it proud. And then go get some Human League albums and pelt them at passers-by. Together we are going to change this. Someone call Morrissey! We're on the road to revolution!