Olly Mann 🎙️

Podcasting since 2007 🎧 Answer Me This!, The Week Unwrapped, The Modern Mann, Today In History with the Retrospectors 📻 BBC 3CR, Times Radio

[Olly Mann 🎙️ @OllyMann]

Q: Olly, Answer Me This: where can I find a list of links to all your current podcasts?
A: Your 2026 listening pleasure awaits! 👇

❓ ANSWER ME THIS: https://t.co/XFzz6d2906
(Fortnightly comedy Q&A with @HelenZaltzman + @martinaustwick)

🤔 THE MODERN MANN: https://t.co/yuPhSznaOo
(Monthly trends, relationships & real-life stories with @AlixFox + @Ollieep)

📰 THE WEEK UNWRAPPED: https://t.co/3VRF0vEKDz
(Weekly under-the-radar news discussion with @harriet1marsden, @JKTimson & @felicitycapon)

💾 TODAY IN HISTORY WITH THE RETROSPECTORS:
https://t.co/9yoqsQ8LOs
(Daily, fun, 10-minute 'on this day' chat with @RebeccaGillie + @arionmcnicoll)

🎢 ROLLERCOASTER: UNIVERSAL'S BEDFORDSHIRE JOURNEY:
https://t.co/TxWIqskLCc
(Tracking the progress of Universal's UK theme park plans; series 1 now online and more to follow!)

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Every time I hear hype for 'machine learning' I remember how my Alexa persists in asking me if I want her to read out my Notifications and I've never once said yes

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It's rarely good news when the New York Times carries 'U.K. Government' as the trending topic under its masthead

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An uncomfortable interview.

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No shade on the kid, who looks cute and everything, but the weirdness of putting a preschooler in a shirt and tie and selling that as anything other than a depressing restriction of their personality

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Confession: I watched 45 minutes of the 1994 CNN Larry King Live coverage of this in preparation for today's @retrospectorshq episode and it's just as compelling even when you know the ending

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

17 June 1994. Following a low-speed police chase through the Southern California freeways, broadcast live on TV, former US Football star and film actor OJ Simpson was arrested at his LA home in Brentwood for the brutal murder of his ex-wife Nicole and Ron Goldman.

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@SarahMillican75 Am seeing him tomorrow at the o2, can't wait!

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

“If there is a contest, I intend to be in it and to fight it.”

Sir Keir Starmer tells Times Radio’s Anna Mikhailova that he will fight any leadership contenders, as it’s widely expected that Andy Burnham will contest the Labour leadership should he win in Makerfield.

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Action cardigan

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

We are banning social media access for under 16s.

These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life.

I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back.

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This month's edition of The Modern Mann, in pictorial form

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Had these kittens for three months and they've FINALLY joined me in my office.
Good to see them put in a shift.

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@s8mb Yes Nikki Bedi switched me on to Seatfrog and I praise her name with each complimentary biscuit

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En route to @TimesRadio to host 'Drive' this weekend, and thus am considering rebranding it 'Tube'

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When Karl Lagerfeld died, he left his estate to his cat. Or did he?

I had a riot narrating this story by Chris Heath for The Atlantic. Warning: includes the sound of me impersonating Choupette 🙀

https://t.co/0ep9R55Scj

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Just hearing about this. The best voice on the radio and the man whose broadcasting got me, and millions of others, into Country. Lots of love to Bob!

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Bob Harris to step down from Radio 2 after 56 years on air https://t.co/oQZfFc5mGP

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let's just write Lovely on the packet, nobody will notice they're gross

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Cue the sound of grateful Bedfordshire residents that at least they didn't go for 'London'...

[DigitalDan @DigitalDan7]

Universal United Kingdom Resort official logo and name revealed! 🌍🎢

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Will be revealing some Universal Bedford news later this afternoon!

In the meantime, am pleased to announce that season 2 of my show Rollercoaster - Universal's Bedfordshire Journey is coming soon to BBC Sounds & Three Counties Radio 🙏

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As a theme park nut, I was THRILLED to hear that Universal are building a 476-acre attraction just 25 minutes from my house! 🎢

And, OBVIOUSLY, I immediately wanted to make a podcast about it. 🎤

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well I somehow doubt that