Series 4, Episode 6 - Sat On A Bus, Waiting (with Anthony Richardson)

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Reading Football Club. Discuss. It’s not the easiest of tasks given their lack of notable history and success. But do not fear because the brilliant comedian Anthony Richardson is here to give the lowdown on life as a Royal.

Anthony is best know for being one half of The Exploding Heads, the internet-based comedy act he and the equally brilliant Mark Davison launched a decade ago and which has brought us such masterpieces as Bohemian Rhapsody with Footballers and Colin from Portsmouth. Anthony chats about how both came about and how in the case of the former it led to a rather awkward exchange with Danny Baker.

It’s then onto Reading - the club Anthony pretty much stumbled into supporting as a child and has had a curious relationship with ever since. There was his first game at Elm Park, Reading’s original ground, which he remembers most for leaving early, and the subsequent trips to their modern home, the Madejski Stadium, of which he speaks with great humour and a gripping sense of regret. The experiences have broadly not been enjoyable. The sense of belonging clearly not there.

On a far happier note, Anthony recalls the great, history-making Reading side that achieved promotion to the Premier League in 2006; what made them so good and why they were able to do so well in the first of their two successive top-flight seasons.

Anthony also discusses the difficult direction his relationship with Reading has taken since he became a father before going through his all-time XI and providing an answer to the final question.

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