On November 6^th 2021 Jimmy appeared on the BBC Radio 4 (R4) show – Saturday Live. Hosted by Rev. Richard Coles (former Communard – see here) and Nikki Bedi – episode details here.

Other guests:

• Natalie Cumming
• Dr Richard Shepherd – forensic pathologist
• Miriam Margolyes
• Julie Fowlis – Gaelic singer and musician

Book recommendation: Jon Ronson – So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed (see Booklist here).

It seems like the whole show is available (on the BBC website) – but it’s in 2 different locations

The audio file (of the full 1 hour 23 show) on the link here can be played or downloaded as an MP3 file and Jimmy joins at 1 min 40.

• Comics wanting to be lead singers
• Ed Sheeran / Visiting Hours backing vocals

8 minutes through to 28.19 – is a repeat of the below

Jimmy returns at 31.25 and this is interspersed with calls from listeners and chatting with the other guests.

• Teachers at school
• Derek Acorah
• 54 mins – Jimmy briefly discussing 911 forensics with Dr Shepherd
• 57 mins – Nikki calling Jimmy a Therapist / NLP
• Dr Shepherd’s corpse model is, coincidentally, called Jimmy
• 59 mins – talking about Silent Witness etc.
• 1 hour – talking about grief

And then a second 21 minutes version can be listened to here.

This is just Jimmy’s bits from his part of the show (the interview), although does not cover his contributions to the segments with the other guests. Meaning you need to listen to both files to hear it all.

• Before and Laughter promotion visit
• Talking about leaving Shell
• Race to lose virginity – social media comparisons
• Loss of faith – atheism
• Growing up Catholic
• Irish background
• Kilkee holidays
• Comedians – only person facing the wrong way in a theatre
• Which of your parents were sick?
• Self-confidence / unconditional love
• Fatherhood, 2 years ago
• Comedy – task without end
• Stephen Hawking friendship
• Pattern recognition / dyslexia
• Importance of laughter
• Remote grooming, Dunbar number
• David Cameron on Jimmy’s tax arrangement (Greensill)
• 8 Out of 10 Cats tax episode – Sarah Millican, Micky Flanagan, Sean Lock
• Producer – Ruth Philips
• Phone people on the day
• Panic attacks / anxiety / James Corden
• Religion and forgiveness / redemption
• Tesla test drive / gull wing door