It's hard to know how to feel in writing the following words. Not because there is a mixture of emotions (there isn't) but because it barely seems credible that this has actually ended.  Reading 72 Virgins felt like an act of interminable ...

Oh man, is this still going? Yes! But fear not, Johnson's dross is approaching a swift end with this, the penultimate episode of reading.This episode is very much a Pickel-fest,  so if you're a fan of sub-aquatic genoc...

Episode twenty bloody seven. 27. It's here, and it's almost the end. You can feel it can't you, coming down the track like an inevitable freight train of jingoism and frayed narratives. You already know nothing will be...

Yep. That's the title. We went with it. It's a direct quote, from the literary musings of Boris Johnson. That's something the UK Prime Minister wrote, that was published in a real book, by a real publisher...

Let me dispel any confusion - there are no amphibians mentioned in this episode.As the pace quickens, the plot thickens, and publishing deadlines loom, Boris Johnson (the author) is running out of steam. Expect increased plot holes, laz...

Episode 24! Where does it go eh? Certainly not into plot and character development.As you've probably established by now, the setting is going nowhere. We're in and our course is set. We'll be in Westminster hall until the book ends. An...

Guess who's back... back again... Old Boys are back... tell a friend (refrain)Of course, Podcasts being a potentially asynchronous media, there's a good chance that this caption won't make sense to you, but if you are a regular listener...

Imagine, if you will, a teenage boy, sitting alone in their room, in the early 90s. They haven't yet had their mind invaded by the nefarious onslaught of globalised and easily accessible pornography wrought by the internet, and have little imag...

21 - legal age to drink in the country of the kidnapped president, and the number of Podcast Episodes we have brought you. Coincidence? Yes. Worth noting? No.This week is mostly based in Westminster Hall, with one unexpected diversion.....

It’s episode twenty! The big 2-0! And you know what that means? Plot-wise, nothing! Because we have arbitrarily sliced the book up into episode sized sections. But as an exercise in stamina, it’s quite something!This week we are treated...

Uh oh! It's Episode 19, and you know what that means? It's finally time to hear what the Terrorist Plan is from the self-appointed 'realist' Jones the Bomb. No doubt throughout the novel you have, as a deeply engaged J...

Episode 18 may well be pushing into the realms of 'brunch', flirting as Johnson is with 10.30am (the internationally held switch-over point) but that doesn't stop our breakfast-obsessed auteur sticking in a couple of last-minute branded referen...

Welcome, to the end game. Part 3: I come to bury Ceasar.Somehow, despite the supposedly overwhelming presence of security, the terrorists have made it through this chef-packed audience and are next to the president. What wi...

Episode 16 brings a rare lock-down treat: a chapter double header, as we round of Part Two of 72 Virgins. The Eagle-eared amongst you may well think, 'but hang on, we've only just started part 2?' - and you'd be right. Because, whilst Johnson h...

Episode 15 of The Old Boys Book Club, or, the episode where it dawned on Jonny and Andy that they were going to have to read the whole thing.It's good news again for fans of Pickel, as we spend a lot of time up on the roof with him, inc...

Welcome to Episode 14 of the Old Boys Book Club, where we entreat you to enjoy chapter 32 of Boris Johnson's 72 Virgins.This week we learn how the hosts have been celebrating their new found freedom, tearing along the country lanes, top...

Episode 13 of the pod but Lockdown Episode 1 - the new normal.Firstly, and most importantly, we find out how are hosts are adjusting.Then, join us as we enter Act 2 of Johnson's seminal work, and insight into the rambling mind o...

Episode 12 brings bad news for Raimondo, a character close to our hearts, but who seems not to know his own. Lefty Journo-shagger-lad, mouthpiece of the elite, or just bad writing? Only you can decide.Johnson also speculates on how natu...

Episode 11 is here, and Barlow is bemused by yet another journalist, constructing what newspaper men call a 'piece' (an article) against him! Meanwhile, the police guarding Westminster seem to have swapped roles with the Chuckle Brothers, and P...

Welcome to Episode 10 of The Old Boys Book Club. Regular listeners will have learned to equate a deep dive into Dean's backstory with unequivocal sadness, and this episode is sadly not beyond that precedent. However we are lucky enough to have ...

Welcome to Episode 9 of the Old Boys Book Club. Technology is a long held source of despair for the Old Boy, mistrustful as they are of any innovation this side of the law necessitating the wearing of seatbelts. However, whilst a critique of te...

Episode 8 of the Old Boys Book Club will delight fans of Dean, as we chart once again his torrid history, but its bad news for clock-watchers, as Johnson's obsession with particular back stories (especially those that facilitate an attack on le...

As we delve deeper into Johnson's mind, the insight we glean is ever more devastating.Chapters 18 and 19 bring us a disturbing vision of an ideal date, and what does, or doesn't, constitute homosexual behaviour in the mind of a young, f...

Johnson's obsession with breakfast carries on apace in Episode 6 of The Old Boys Book Club. Here we see him toying with variations beyond cereal, with his usual obsessive narration. We also explore a spectacular reaction to a border hedge dispu...

Join us for chapters 13, 14 and 15 of Boris Johnson's Seminal, Semi-Autobiographical "fast paced thriller" (not our words) 72 Virgins. In this episode we meet one of literature's most wretched characters, and explore an inexplicabl...