Simon Mayo - Confessions

[Shoeshelpplease]

AIBU to be quite upset its all over for the podcast? My son and I both really enjoyed listening to this - one of the funniest things we have both enjoyed together.

I feel so sad and I dont normally get attached to media programmes.

Anybody else feel the same? Can anybody recommend any similar podcasts that are funny and span the generations?

It’s sad isn’t it. I love a lighthearted podcast.

I’ve just started listening to Off menu with James Acaster and Ed Gamble which is funny.
Also love Adam Buxton but there can be swearing in that.

Did they do the older ones.

I remember crying over two.

The first when some teenagers made vodka jelly shots for a 5yos party

The second when someone put a hamster in a model aeroplane (the plane came back but the hamster didn’t)

This must have been early 90s

There is a LOT of swearing in Adam Buxton's podcast and often fairly adult content. I do love it though.

John Robbins and Elis James on radio x do a shamewell feature that is similar and sometimes hilarious

If it's any help, they aren't always how the confessee has written them. I know this because I wrote one, sent it in and it was read out. Except that it wasn't what I'd written at all, they'd changed it completely and made it sound completely different.

I was actually quite gutted - not because they made me sound awful, but because I'd absolutely LOVED the Confessions for years (I used to listen when Simon Mayo was on Radio 1) and knowing that they altered the stories to suit themselves absolutely ruined it for me.

I remember the hamster!

Granny surely if it was so different, it was likely to be somebody else's confession with just a few similarities to yours?

Essexgirl, that sounds interesting I'll look at that, never heard of radio x before. Is it suitable for teens too or does it have adult content / swearing etc.

Thanks I have subscribed to the Off The Menu and Adam Buxton bit still looking for cross generational stuff.

For info I also listen to No Such Thing As Fish, not too much swearing or adult context but a lot of themes kids just wouldn't get so that's no good either.

I’m listening to My Dad Wrote a Porno - it’s hilarious

@Shoeshelpplease

No, it was definitely mine. Chunks of it were word-for-word but they'd changed the whole tone of the story, twisted parts of it and added in some bits of their own. I'd also used a pseudonym (my email address made it quite clear that my real name was Mary Smith*, but I'd signed the email "Jane - not my real name!" for fear that they'd inadvertently read out my real name, and they changed it to the very similar "Joan".

I was bloody cross because I'd spent ages writing it!

*All names changed for obvious reasons!

I remember a confession where a teenager had found some condoms in his parents bedroom. For a ‘joke’ he poked holes in them. 9 months later he had a baby brother.

Oh I loved the hamster in the plane one.im sure I got a book with all the confessions in it when he was on radio one and o was a teenager

grannyweather
That’s a shame for you but I would like to reassure people they are read out word for word more or less. I sent one in and it was read out almost exactly as I wrote it. They changed my name to Shona Mercy and made up their own title ( the tooth will out). Other than that it was pretty much unchanged. It probably helped that I have been listening to the confessions for years so wrote it in the style that Simon Mayo uses when reading them. I could here him in my head as I wrote it. I didn’t get forgiven but most of the panel including their guest that day (actor Mark Strong).
Having my confession read out is still one of the nightlights of my life.

High lights !

What did you confess @Whatjusthappenedthere ?

It probably helped that I have been listening to the confessions for years so wrote it in the style that Simon Mayo uses when reading them. I could here him in my head as I wrote it.

I’d been listening to Confessions for probably about 15 years when I wrote mine (it wasn’t that long ago) and I wrote it very much in the style that they presented them in. Didn’t stop them changing it so I’m afraid at least some of them are partly faked :)

its hardA bit scared to say, it was a true story. I’d get flamed on here for repeating it.

A juicy one then