Mildly Informed

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🚗 Blackwall Tunnel Fines

How bad can it really be? Turns out… quite bad. Admin, confusion and accusations of immorality

🍻 Outdoor Drinking

A national pastime the second the sun appears. Glorious!

💅 Why Do Humans Have Fingernails?

Useful tool or weird evolutionary leftover? The kind of question that probably didn’t need answering… but gets it anyway.

🚇 Tube Strikes

Disruption, debate and everyone suddenly be...

🍺 Why is Lidl Building a Pub?

A sentence that raises more questions than it answers. Is this genius or has everyone lost the plot?

👓 Why Do New Glasses Take So Long?

You’ve already chosen them. You’ve paid. What’s actually happening behind the scenes?

😂 The Best Kids’ Jokes

Simple, terrible, and somehow impossible not to laugh at.

⛳ The Green Jacket at The Masters

Golf tradition, quiet prestige, and a garment doing ...

🎙️ Mildly Informed returns, with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner once again throwing around ideas, observations and inventions that probably shouldn’t exist.

This week feels particularly experimental — both in terms of food and general life philosophy.

Here’s where the chat goes:

🍽️ British Tapas (Invented Live)

What if tapas… but British? Small plates, big confus...

🎙️ Mildly Informed returns, with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner once again bouncing between big topics, great TV and oddly specific social observations.

It’s one of those episodes where the conversation starts in space and ends in a very British emotional cul-de-sac.

This week, the chat includes:

🌕 The Moon Landings

A small step for man, a giant leap for podcast ...

🎙️ Mildly Informed goes on the road (sort of), as Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner record this episode from a hotel room at a wedding - and launch our first ever campaign!

On this week’s agenda:

🏨 Podcasting from a Hotel Room

See how elite podcasters do a weekend away

🏊 Duncan Goodhew

A genuine legend gets the Mildly Informed treatment. LET'S MAKE THIS MAN SIR DUNC!

🎀 Bow Ties

Stylish statement or formal...

🎙️ Mildly Informed is back: This week’s episode takes in architecture, PR nonsense and attempts at self-improvement…

Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner once again chatting their way through culture, chaos and confectionery — with absolutely no plan and just enough opinion.

On the conversational menu:

🎬 A Listed Cinema in Milton Keynes

A cultural landmark? A horrible relic...

🎙️ Mildly Informed returns with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner, once again drifting through the week’s cultural discoveries, strange internet finds and the sort of conversations that start serious and end somewhere completely different.

This episode takes an unexpectedly dark turn — before quickly becoming ridiculous again.

On the agenda this week:

📺 Northern Iri...

🎙️ Mildly Informed returns with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner, once again solving life’s smaller mysteries through loosely structured conversation and questionable personal anecdotes.

This week the chat wanders through dogs, seasonal food politics and one deeply questionable evening out. As ever, strong opinions are formed quickly and supported by almost no research.

In ...

🎙️ Mildly Informed returns, with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner settling in for another episode of enthusiastic chat, snack analysis and completely unqualified television criticism.

This week’s conversation swings comfortably between food nostalgia and prestige TV — exactly the sort of topics that deserve strong opinions formed almost instantly.

On the agenda (loosely):

🍪 Cookies & Cola C...

🎙️ This week on Mildly Informed, Absolute Radio star Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner are back doing what they do best — chatting absolute nonsense and accidentally forming opinions along the way.

The conversation drifts (as it always does) from mildly awkward social situations to full cultural breakdowns, with several unexpected snack-based diversions.

Expect chat about:

🍽️ Solo Dining

Is ...

🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t train your dog, reduce the price of chocolate, or curate a museum… but will absolutely review all three

Join Richie Firth and Chris Skinner as they stumble through another week of domestic drama, cultural excursions and confectionery outrage. From canine chaos to Easter economics, nothing is safe from mild scrutiny

This week’s episode featur...

🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t get you an autograph, save you from gym class humiliation, or explain the meaning of life… but will absolutely talk about all three.

Join Richie Firth and Chris Skinner as they move seamlessly from low-stakes cringe to genuinely big questions. It’s an episode that starts with professional idiots and ends somewhere uncomfortably reflective.

John O'Leary 1955-2025. RIP.

🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t get you into a lido, identify an orca, or bring back proper football… but will happily reminisce about all three.

Join Richie Firth and Chris Skinner as they wade through another week of nostalgia, niche wildlife knowledge and the creeping sense that things were somehow better “back then”. Mild insight only, as ever.

This week’s episode feat...

🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t train your puppy, shut down dodgy pranks, or rename a storm… but will absolutely have opinions on all three.

Join Richie Firth and Chris Skinner as they tackle another week of modern nonsense, canine temptation and meteorological branding. Expect mild insights, strong feelings, and no practical advice.

This week’s episode features:

🐶 New Puppies – unbearably cute, wildly...

🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that can’t predict the future, fix modern technology, or improve the sporting calendar… but will happily review the year anyway.

In this episode, Richie Firth and Chris Skinner take stock of 2025 so far, casting their mildly informed eye over the things that have defined the year — from what we’re eating at lunchtime to the gadgets we’re apparently m...

🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t fix your loft, improve your tram network, or hit the right note at karaoke… but will absolutely overanalyse all of them.

Join Richie Firth and Chris Skinner as they tumble through another week of questionable decisions, domestic chaos and surprisingly strong feelings about dried fruit. Mild insight only. Let’s not pretend otherwise.

This wee...

🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t secure your home, restore Victorian Christmas traditions, or finish your loft conversion… but will absolutely talk about all of them.

Join Richie Firth and Chris Skinner for another week of vague investigations into modern life, festive nostalgia and one man’s ongoing battle with his roof space. Expect mild confusion, gentle opinions and no rea...

🎙️ Welcome to Mildly Informed – the podcast that won’t cure a hangover, shorten an inset day or tell you which Quality Street is best… but will absolutely debate it at length.

This week, Chris Skinner arrives noticeably hungover and Richie Firth does what any good co-host would do — prods him with questions and refuses to let him off the hook. From school schedules to seasonal chocolate, it’s a week of highs, lows and mild regr...

You want a double entrendre? We'll give you one! Join Richie Firth and Chris Skinner as they wander through another week of niche observations, life admin dilemmas and wildly unnecessary analysis. Mild insight: guaranteed. Expertise: not so much.

This week’s episode features:

🗡️ Weapons – why are we talking about them? good question

🏏 Cricket – sport is happening

🧀 Cheeseballs&nb...