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- This episode is a live, real-time ramble, making the most of the freedom of the podcasting medium and allowing Alan to share his love of the countryside with his listeners.
- Trapped in the house by his dog Seldom, Alan introduces himself, his Oasthouse and his new podcast. It's a chance to get to know the real Alan. It's also a useful platform to correct some rumours and lies, and to settle some scores.
- Themed around love and relationships, in this episode Alan talks about how to find love, pre-date grooming regimes and how to make a date go swimmingly.
- 2020–8.2 (6)Podcast EpisodeIt's Alan's favourite day in the calendar year - and he has planned for this episode to be recorded live at a big event. However, a call to Lynn to locate his accreditation disrupts the special day he was hoping for.
- Alan hosts an AMA or Ask Me Anything session having invited burning questions from Twitter, Facebook and his local paper. Nothing is off the table - you want to ask it, Alan's got to answer it.
- 2020–7.5 (6)Podcast EpisodeAlan is asked by a local headmaster to deliver a speech at a nearby school, and after initially refusing, Alan realises it offers up the opportunity to connect with impressionable minds. He ponders how to approach the speech, who should attend and what he might impart to the students.
- Alan sets out on a run to record another 'as-live' podcast en route, although a thunder storm soon disrupts his plans. Back at home he reflects on the power of silence while holed up safely with the storm raging outside.
- Alan devotes an episode of his podcast to his love of letters and looks back on what's been lost in our embrace of the digital world.
- 2020–8.0 (6)Podcast EpisodeA threatening letter is hand-delivered to the Oasthouse, swiftly followed by an already rattled Alan becoming a victim of a break-in.
- 2020–7.3 (6)Podcast EpisodeIn this episode we learn about Alan's affection for 'corporates' as he readies himself to MC a launch event for a Korean car brand. At the event, the Twitter Q&A is hijacked leaving Alan feeling exposed.
- 2020–7.7 (6)Podcast EpisodeAlan spends the episode in his loft putting together a time capsule and has made a video message for whoever should find it - hopefully his grandchildren, Jack and Ruby.
- Alan returns from L.A. and dedicates the episode to the transformative and restorative effects of time out on the west coast of the USA. His trips there are always full of business opportunities and night-time adventure.
- 2020–7.4 (5)Podcast EpisodeAlan has become involved with a charity for young offenders after taking a shine to one of the charity's trustees at an event attended by the Norfolk great and good. Alan shares a coffee with one of the convicts.
- Alan is intent on exploring dreams and their meaning in this episode of the pod using his previous night's dream and some other very vivid dream experiences as a starting point.
- Alan relates a distressing story after noticing that he was moulting heavily in the shower. As someone who cherishes their hair, Alan discusses hair and hair loss with listeners on Twitter with a new vulnerability and awareness of hair's, and specifically his hair's, importance.
- Alan spends the episode at a spa and talks about some recent stressful experiences as he tries to relax into the sweet sophistication of the spa. After being refused entry to the flotation tank facility, Alan attempts to improvise in his hotel bath.
- Alan is out rambling again and talks about how the great outdoors can affect how you feel, as he ponders the legacy he will leave as a thinker and a writer.
- 2020–8.2 (5)Podcast EpisodeAn episode largely, but not solely, inside a car.
- Alan decides to focus on what matters an afternoon teaching his grandchildren about the wonders of the solar system.
- A chance encounter with a local radio exec offers Alan hope of a professional revival.
- Keen to open up new revenue streams and inspired by a friendly proctologist, Alan has decided to write a novel.
- Alan lies in wait hoping to catch fly tippers who have been dumping building materials on a patch of grass behind the cul-de-sac.
- Alan and his friend Ronald go potholing but Ronald stays in the car because he's in a mood but that's Ronald for you.
- Alan visits a living museum to remember a time when sacrifice mattered.
- Although not a Guardian columnist, Alan goes wild swimming and talks about it at length.
- After being teased by some council workers while speed walking through a park, Alan reflects on the death of his dog and ponders the possibility of going back in time.
- Alan's online search for love has so far proved fruitless but could Mrs Right be someone closer to home?
- 2020–Podcast EpisodeStill to receive a job offer, Alan wonders if his commercial endorsements are creating a conflict of interest.
- After taking an online course - The Confidence Muscle with Chip Keeble - Alan musters the machismo to make a grand gesture to the woman he loves.
- 2020–Podcast Episode