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COMEDY

368 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago -

I have been scratching scribe to script and burning tallow onto table in order to bring you a fabulously free A to Z of life's mystery

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THE IMMACULATE CREATION.

March 22, 2023 08:18 - 1 minute - 1.59 MB

a musing about an artist girlfriend and her crazy cultural crew, their works of art or gestation periods of genius took almost as long as those of real pregnancies . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

NIRVANA

March 21, 2023 09:00 - 2 minutes - 2.43 MB

Setting off on a world tour in the late seventies was nothing like it is today there were no mobile phones or multimedia just the odd phone box for calls with your thumb and forefinger for transportation Hitchhiking thousands of miles around the globe taking years and years almost a decade to the point where many of us became wonderless with our own wanderlust , but still quite skilled in the art of conversation due to spending so much time spieling with strangers where way back when you had ...

SPITTLE AND SPUME

March 20, 2023 20:50 - 2 minutes - 2.35 MB

Listening to these waffling old windbags wheezing about saving our world , those who quaff down expensive wine squandering fifty pounds a glass and then dare to set the price of carbon capture at three pounds a ton and this to save your granddaughter or grandson ?. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

WOKING TO WATERLOO

March 20, 2023 10:52 - 1 minute - 1.57 MB

A short poem about riding aboard the busiest train in Europe ,the 7.32 Woking to Waterloo ,one hundred million passengers a year pass through Waterloo which makes for some terrifying or tantalising flesh to flesh points of view . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

MANCHESTER

March 20, 2023 07:22 - 2 minutes - 1.88 MB

A poem for big Manchester Pete the hardest looking man you'd ever meet a face made for trick or treat but inside his heart was softer than boiled sugar beet . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

JEANNINE

March 18, 2023 22:30 - 2 minutes - 2.09 MB

Our green  karma Queen casts her svelt shadows over the obstinate boulder brained beast lighting her alternative pathway towards a spiritual sentient sanctuary . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

FEMME FATALE

March 18, 2023 18:30 - 2 minutes - 2.46 MB

The femme fatale overrides all of our rationale her swan song is the sound we hear as our love boat runs aground and the final pheromone we scent is that of sulphur as we start to drowned . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

DEAD DROP

March 13, 2023 07:11 - 1 minute - 1.84 MB

William marwood's long drop solution brought about a revolution in the British Empires approach for delivering a more humane method of execution . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

THE LONG DROP

March 13, 2023 07:11 - 1 minute - 1.84 MB

William marwood's long drop solution brought about a revolution in the British Empires approach for delivering a more humane method of execution . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson6/message

HANGOVER

March 12, 2023 16:48 - 2 minutes - 2.27 MB

A whale song dream turns out to be the squealing brake drums of a distant dust truck it's sound distorted by gusting wind singing through ginnel and garret , bin lids cymbal into the sensitivity of your sobriety announcing the arrival of an unwanted monday morning's anxiety. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

Envy

March 11, 2023 21:07 - 2 minutes - 2.14 MB

The green eyed monster of sin that secret schadenfreude which we keep hidden away so deep within usually it's only seen in children as their rival for survival and parental attention the lowly leftover instinct of our anthropic ascension , however this terrible traits can also be witnessed later in our lives when when the male begins to assert it's dominance as the procreation stage arrives . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

GENTLE GIANTS

March 10, 2023 22:18 - 4 minutes - 3.81 MB

It's about time the human realised that a tree is flesh and blood not just timber or a price of wood , these beautiful living entities give us shelter shade and our lifesaving breath ,without them we are condemning our selves to a curtain death --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

IMMORTALITY

March 09, 2023 13:21 - 2 minutes - 2.75 MB

The only true miracle that we mortal beings are likely to see comes in the form of our genetic immortality that gene transfer continuum better known to you and me as a baby, Throughout the humans brief biological history it has believed in many a different sherman deity an Divinity ranging from Greek gods to our present day Corpus Christi, But when it comes to the real miracle making capability then it's the female of our species that is graced with the life giving fertility. This poem is wr...

MAN-EATER

March 09, 2023 07:17 - 2 minutes - 1.04 MB

Krystyana Skarbek was a polish beauty queen come countess and the longest serving spy in Churchill's SOE , with a life expectancy of six weeks she lasted seven years as a field agent fighting against Nazi tyranny   only then to be   betrayed by her own trusted powers that be , Britain with a stroke of their Judas pen  turned her  into a  refugee and also leaked her name to Stalin's newly formed KGB , on the day that she was  due to fly out to be married and finally set free she was stabbed fa...

LOVE

March 08, 2023 20:15 - 2 minutes - 1.97 MB

Thinking back to my parents fate it's hard to see how they once did romantically pass through the eden gate into the land of milk and money where they fell hopelessly in love and felt the urge to passionately procreate , after which they wore the mortgage mask that twenty five year servile task eventually paying back the bank managers seven percent overdraft , they scrimped and scrapped in a steel city strife an then this beleaguered husband and wife decided to search out a big world party a...

Glastonbury

March 08, 2023 07:36 - 2 minutes - 2.16 MB

When you're a teenager there's always one out of your crew who takes too much powder and drinks too much brew we use to call him the Glastonbury gladiator , funny but with them having so much testosterone and adrenaline they also make brilliant parents when they've finished with their thirty year teenage rampage . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

EARTH ,WATER ,WIND, AND FIRE

March 07, 2023 22:14 - 1 minute - 1.02 MB

The four elements of life, if we do not learn to respect them as ancient cultures did then they will cease to respect us . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

MIDNIGHT THUNDER

March 07, 2023 20:56 - 1 minute - 1.48 MB

A poem about a very beautiful woman called Claudia who's powerful persona ricochete around us like a midnight thunder , on first meeting she would still and seduce ya with her silent stare of medusa . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

LIQUID SIN.

March 04, 2023 20:22 - 2 minutes - 2.56 MB

The high functioning alcoholic starts the day with a liberal libation of liquid sin, beneath their Celtic cream coloured skin once beat the heart of Gunga Din . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

BLUE TATTOO

March 04, 2023 16:28 - 2 minutes - 2.58 MB

What was once a stamp for the tramp or cut of a criminal class is now adorning the faces and physique of aristocrat, royalty and supermodel chic . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

STONEWALL

March 04, 2023 12:24 - 3 minutes - 3.22 MB

A poem I wrote to commemorate the courage of Christine the first transexual beauty queen who back in 1953 decided bravely to have her gender reassigned to its rightful sexuallity in order that she may be set free from the burden of having to live with her very unwanted masculinity, but it would be a long haul from the first roll of that snowball before the gay community finally made they're stand for equality at the Inn we now know as stonewall. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcast...

ODE TO A TOAD

March 04, 2023 08:00 - 1 minute - 1.33 MB

Oliver Cromwell said to his portrait artist , Paint me warts and all he had the skin of and old toad after his death his body was exhumed and hung at Tyburn then his head was decapitated and placed outside Westminster palace the parliament he'd spilt so much blood to put in place. I've purposely placed the old archaic English terms into rural colloquial Yorkshire speech which in certain communities is still in common use today . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/p...

THE PROMISED LAND

March 04, 2023 06:51 - 2 minutes - 2.71 MB

A poem for Katy on reception who drives ever man crazy by giving them a glimpse of the promised land only then to watch gleefully as they walk towards her straight into a paradise of quicksand . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

SAMSON

March 03, 2023 22:35 - 2 minutes - 1.98 MB

The loss of a lion's mane is similar to that of a man's hair as it recedes they both become a little timid and tame loosing pride and prowess both these mammals are now out of the mating game . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

SERMON OF A SQUIRREL.

March 03, 2023 08:14 - 1 minute - 1.8 MB

Covid 19 as seen through the eyes of a squirrel watching them  fighting for scraps from the dustbins whilst under lock down ,they appear so confident without us , I think possibly the only thing they'd missed about our absence is possible the leftovers of Ben and Jerry's ice cream . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

SCOTCH BROTH

March 02, 2023 13:49 - 2 minutes - 1.93 MB

A poem i wrote for the fire and brimstone preacher who baptised me in an ice water stone trough a wild religious Celt with raven hair alabaster skin and husky dog blue eyes a true blood line of the ancient Bretagne . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

MIDLIFE CRISIS

March 02, 2023 11:05 - 1 minute - 1.71 MB

A poem about men and their midwife crisis as a matter course men feel the need to try out a new horse so they get a divorce and set off in search of adventure usually riding a Harley-Davidson towards the sun and what they think will be some all new sexual fun . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson6/message

TRUTH

March 01, 2023 21:51 - 2 minutes - 2.37 MB

The human hunter gatherer brain is so very hard to truth train but maybe not if you start using the new silicon scopolamine dream and drip feed it daily with some digital dopamine served up from our omnipresent Turing machine. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

NAME AND SHAME

March 01, 2023 20:10 - 1 minute - 1.69 MB

A musing about giving your offspring a strong polysyllabic sounding name something to inspire them to aspire towards fortune and fame . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

THE MINUTE PAST MIDNIGHT TRAIN.

March 01, 2023 07:52 - 2 minutes - 1.88 MB

A poem about leaving behind the industrial Revolution of Sheffield at the age 19 .  The Armageddon come apocalypse of the first industrialised disaster I left behind catching the minute past midnight train  and i never look back,  the same could be seid to the young people of today , free yourselves of this synthetic silicon slavery!! and seek out the natural world . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

JAGUAR

February 28, 2023 20:45 - 2 minutes - 1.9 MB

In the swinging sixties to own a car was rare but if it be a jaguar then you were the young nouveau rich the fake faux millionaires and make believe movie stars as were members of my friends and family usually their balloons burst in bankruptcy debt and divorce , too much money in young hands is like playing with the fire of a newly found passionate desire --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson6/message

GABRIEL.

February 28, 2023 07:53 - 1 minute - 1.17 MB

A poem for Neno who used to be a winged traveler in her younger days but now since having a baby daughter Lily named after the immortal horn of Gabriel she doesn't feel the need to leave this earthly piece of ground she has discovered the destiny for which she was bound . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

THE LAUGHING BREXITEER

February 27, 2023 19:32 - 1 minute - 1.31 MB

The Westminster war of brexit has split a lot of blood onto the backbenchers but who will win the feudalistic few or the milky middle class . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson6/message

SEVEN SHADES OF SIN

February 27, 2023 07:50 - 2 minutes - 2.22 MB

A preacher man told to me that all of us come pre packaged with the seven shades of sin which are basically our primitive seven instincts of survival that we needed whilst hunter gathering on the savage African Savannah through evolution and ecclesiastical endeavours we have been trying to adapt our mammalian species to a more sacred sentient state of being ever since . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson6/message

A FRIEND IN NEED

February 26, 2023 07:30 - 1 minute - 1.69 MB

I wrote this little ditty after listening to a dear friend who's a lay preacher telling me that i may not be entering into the kingdom of heaven , i answered by stating that i did not want to go to heaven and he asked why surprised stating did i want to go to hell ? , i mentioned i would be quite happy to remain in limbo or purgatory rather than enter into the either where billions upon billions of souls from our past bitter waring human beings would be residing ; after experiencing the enorm...

THE SOUL EXCHANGE

February 26, 2023 07:30 - 1 minute - 1.69 MB

I wrote this little ditty after listening to a dear friend who's a lay preacher telling me that i may not be entering into the kingdom of heaven , i answered by stating that i did not want to go to heaven and he asked why surprised stating did i want to go to hell ? , i mentioned i would be quite happy to remain in limbo or purgatory rather than enter into the either where billions upon billions of souls from our past bitter waring human beings would be residing ; after experiencing the enorm...

THE LION THING.

February 24, 2023 05:20 - 1 minute - 1.84 MB

Looking at my Godson watching The Lion king I cast my mind back to my childhood when I first saw a pathetic beast that was being used as a pet come guard dog in a scrap yard , chained toothless clawless and castrated it this lion died of pneumonia due to coldness and cruelty ,man should leave these beautiful beasts on the Savannah where they belong . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

THE BOOZE BROTHERS

February 23, 2023 20:33 - 3 minutes - 33.7 MB

The booze has dammed the soul of many a Keltic kin once upon a life time ago we were the Gunga Din. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

THE OLD COLONIAL

February 19, 2023 09:30 - 2 minutes - 2.19 MB

Old Colonials talk of empire its quite shocking how they used to think of human beings as nothing more than chattels not just the natives but also the white workers and soldiers such as my old father now 95 years of age he told me during his time in India just after the second world War protecting the British Raj who also looked upon him as a SLAVE OF EMPIRE . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

THE LAST BOHEMIAN

February 18, 2023 11:00 - 11 minutes - 5.16 MB

A eulogy I wrote for a dear friend of mine who to me will always be the last bohemian fugitive, an artist for more than 65 years a very impressive figure who change my life for the better with his mindful mentoring. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

THE SPECIAL BREW CREW

February 11, 2023 23:16 - 2 minutes - 1.88 MB

We used to be the bonhomie brothers of revelry we ghosts of the good Life now haunt past each other in the street with a gaze averted towards our feet , spirits and spectres have now all been exorcised by the big dry of sobriety which has turned us into normal members of society ; now they we don't strut so proud or shout too loud , now we just shuffle past you with our eyes down cowed and heads low bowed. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson6/message

PROFUMO

February 10, 2023 17:04 - 3 minutes - 3.33 MB

The swinging sixties a sexpionage spy scandal took place called the Profumo Affaire unfortunately two of its players were amateurs and didn't know what the rules of the spy game were ; one was sacrificed as a scapegoat and the other Christine Keeler lived life under a long dark shadow until she died and all because they were enlisted by MI5 into taking part in a Russian honey trap for Queen and country which went dramatically wrong . Dr Steven Ward a brilliant osteopath and gifted portrait a...

FRANKENSTEIN

February 09, 2023 22:35 - 2 minutes - 1.97 MB

My words may seem callous and cruel but then they are the comments collected from the clientele who share café space with these poor disabled individuals , by the grace of good fortune there walk we . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

THE FRUITARIAN FUNDAMENTALIST

February 09, 2023 07:40 - 2 minutes - 2.29 MB

Walking into a very expensive veggie vegan boutique i listened to the sermon of a spiritual salesman it felt as if you we're about to sign papers for adoption the high priest of the Celtic druids worshipped his wild woodland produce I got the uneasy feeling that my blood was going be sacrificed under an oak tree called Zeus after i touched a sacred sprig of his mistletoe obviously punishable by pain of death . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-ric...

BOHEMIAN FUGITIVES

February 07, 2023 18:30 - 1 minute - 1.25 MB

A poem written for two old Bohemians who through reckless behaviour in younger year did so destroy the fragile entity of love , and are now left with just the ghost of her to haunt their old hearts . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson6/message

PRECIOUS PRIDE

February 05, 2023 23:29 - 1 minute - 1.48 MB

A prick of our precious pride is all that's needed to derail and deride our sensibility into taking a walk back onto its wild side. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

THE SOUL

February 04, 2023 08:16 - 2 minutes - 1.89 MB

The ghost in our mortal machine is like a spiritual symbiotic twin that collaborative companion that shares our secular sin so silently from within accompanying us from a womb to the tomb an then ultimately giving evidence in our final doom . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-richardson6/message

ELVIS

February 03, 2023 21:17 - 3 minutes - 2.94 MB

A poem for the king of rock and roll he was born into extreme poverty raised in a shotgun shack but managed not only to break out of that but also to attack the apartheid of America he was one of the first to start singing the black man's blues , he went from busking as a bum on Beale Street to having the world worshipping at his feet --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson6/message

AMBRE SOLAIRE

February 02, 2023 22:39 - 4 minutes - 4.17 MB

A poem for supertramp who had a unique way of curing his halitosis by drinking your aftershave as well as the rest of your bathroom cabinet dry. Beware beware of the ambre solaire . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson6/message

GLUTTONY

February 02, 2023 12:33 - 1 minute - 1.84 MB

I was quite horrified to read that the human is responsible for the slaughter of three billion aninmals each day i wrote the poem in a pompous manner after listening to a hunter talking about his blood sports, he truly belived it tobe his righteous privalage to kill similar to royalty and the religious who once regularly pleasured their pallets with the flesh of endangered animals with some still doing so today after buying a licence from secret African auction houses in many poorer countries...