Mail Bonding

Comedy writers Al Devey and Drew Lovell explore some of the stranger stories from recent editions of The Daily Mail newspaper in the UK, with help from Ian Cowmeadow and special guests. Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners or the easily offended.

Episodes

Jul 18, 2025

1 hr 3 min

Actor and writer Grace Morgan joins our trio of Mail Bonders to discuss recent stories from the Daily Mail. This time out we explore the £2.50 breakfast at the world's first Reform UK pub, Hyde Park's resident swan whisperer, a 'Hotel Boss' who soils nectarines and readers' opinions of Emmanuel Macron.
Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended. 
 

Jul 18, 2025

1 hr 3 min

Jun 17, 2025

54 min

In this bonus installment of Episode 8 - 10 outtakes, our Mail Bonders explore a customised Royal Sex Chair, Disney Princess health conditions, the unrelenting evil of Gail's Bakery and The Ian Cowmeadow Beef Experience. Featuring guests Nina Crane, Nick Briggs and Miki Basu.

Jun 17, 2025

54 min

May 12, 2025

1 hr 1 min

Comedy writer Nick Briggs joins our trio of Mail Bonders to discuss recent stories from the Daily Mail. This time out we explore the working schedule of a naked cleaner, Brits who proved that aliens were real, how to turn your dead pet into leisurewear and Walton Goggins in the Postman Pat reboot. 
Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended. 

May 12, 2025

1 hr 1 min

Apr 1, 2025

59 min

Comedy writer Miki Basu joins our trio of Mail Bonders to discuss recent stories from the Daily Mail. This time out we explore entitled dog walkers on Hampstead Heath, sex noise louder than a lawnmower, Bill Gates infecting our butter and an embittered bowls player revenge spree. Sound effects by the Jiu-Jitsu class upstairs.
Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended. 

Apr 1, 2025

59 min

Feb 26, 2025

1 hr 1 min

For our first episode of the year, comedy powerhouse Nina Crane once again joins our trio of Mail Bonders to discuss recent stories from the Daily Mail. This time out we explore the UK's oldest stripper, living your life as a goat, The Penis of The Future, a phantom banana peeler and Kim Wilde's new album.
Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended. 

Feb 26, 2025

1 hr 1 min

Dec 21, 2024

1 hr 2 min

For our Yuletide Special, comedy writer and Christmas cracker joke specialist Andy Flood joins our trio of Mail Bonders to explore recent stories from the Daily Mail. This holiday season we cover what to serve at a festive party to appear Upper Class, Cliff Richard's "vile" gravy, the world's largest thumb, delicious Nazi raccoons and a Radio Times from Christmas 1980.
 
Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended. 

Dec 21, 2024

1 hr 2 min

Nov 15, 2024

1 hr 7 min

Writer, theatre-maker and star of forthcoming feature film 'Movie Magic' Ilayda Arden joins our trio of Mail Bonders to explore recent stories from the Daily Mail. This month we cover a fight over some plastic flowers, Britain's dullest man, Demons in IKEA and which object we would marry.
Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended. 

Nov 15, 2024

1 hr 7 min

Oct 2, 2024

1 hr 1 min

Comedy writer Amy Xander joins our trio of Mail Bonders to explore recent stories from the Daily Mail newspaper. This time out we cover Simps Vs. Bad Boys, Guinea Pig divorce therapy, the pros and cons of putting Ozempic in the water and Nigel the Swan's thoughts on Keir Starmer.
Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended. 

Oct 2, 2024

1 hr 1 min

Sep 5, 2024

41 min

In this bonus installment of Episode 2 - 4 outtakes, our Mail Bonders explore a Hippy Crack House Party, what to wear on an aeroplane, a blancmange in the headlights and the most psychic sausage dog. Featuring guests Nina Crane, Joe Bates and Grace Morgan.

Sep 5, 2024

41 min

Aug 3, 2024

58 min

Stand up and writer Joe Bates joins our trio of Mail Bonders to explore recent stories from the Daily Mail newspaper. This time out we cover the National Hunk Shortage, unfunny comedians on travel shows, Cocaine Sharks, a week being a long time in politics and Britain's Most Hated Biscuit.
Disclaimer: This podcast contains fruity language as well as mature (and immature) themes. Caution should be exercised if listening in the company of younger children, angry pensioners, or the easily offended. 

Aug 3, 2024

58 min

The Daily Mail - A Short History

The Daily Mail is the most popular newspaper in Britain, with a readership of around two million people. Launched in 1896, the tabloid has a controversial history, celebrating Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts in the 1930s and opposing the UK taking refugees from Nazi Germany. But the paper has now moved on from overtly Fascist ideology, as well as its early opposition to women and lower class men having the vote. These days the Daily Mail is more obsessed with property prices, pseudo-science, celebrity cellulite and whatever it is the Royal Family does all day. But there is a stranger side to this newspaper, one so divorced from reality that, in 2017, Wikipedia banned it as a source due to unreliability. Today many condemn the negative effects of social media, but no legacy outlet has been more influential in shaping the antiquated mindset and reactionary values of older Britons than the Mail. The average age of those who buy a physical copy is around sixty, and the vast majority of its readership votes come election time. This means the Mail still sets the British political agenda, even as its readership makes up less than 3% of the population. Younger listeners. or those from outside Britain, may not understand quite how surreal the paper’s ideology really is. In an effort to rectify this, comedy writers Al Devey and Drew Lovell will take you through some of the more oddball or obscure stories from recent editions; attempting to unpack its strange worldview, helped and overseen by writer Ian Cowmeadow, and with special guests from the London comedy writing scene. This, is Mail Bonding.

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