archive dot org is where i listened to every single one of the russell howard and jon richardson bbc 6 radio shows during my insomniac phase. i’m pretty confident they’ll still be there as i can’t imagine there to be much incentive to take them down. i found them all through just some basic googling “internet archive jon richardson”. hopefully they’re still there and you can find them!! ☺️☺️☺️
Thanks for the recommendation! In the internet archive collection I've found so far, it looks like the 2008 episodes are the same edited-down ones I have on the podcast I've been using. But I'll keep Googling similar things because there are a bunch of different things called different variations of "internet archive", and I think you're right that my best chance of finding what I'm looking for is getting some version of internet archive that has it. I appreciate the message! It's certainly a good way to spend an insomniac phase.
Okay, after some more searching I’m getting the impression that there doesn’t seem to be any one place with all the full-length episodes, but I can find individual full episodes by searching for them specifically. But they’ll all be named slightly different things, so I’m going with a strategy of just searching for relevant general terms in the internet archive and then combing through the results. Which is a task that takes little enough brainpower so I can do it at the same time as listening to radio episodes that I do have in my possession already, so that’s fine.
Anyway, I’m mostly writing this update to let people know that it feels weird to type “Russell Howard bbc” into a search box. British Broadcasting Corporation is very much the first association that comes to my mind when I see BBC. But something about putting those letters together, in lower case, into a search engine after a celebrity’s name, give them a different connotation in my mind. Especially as I recently listened to a radio show episode in which they discussed the fact that apparently there were a lot of gay men writing sexually explicit things on the internet about what they would like to do to Russell Howard. I am assuming and certainly hoping that all the results I get from searching “Russell Howard bbc” will be related to the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Are you looking for the 6 music shows archive? There's one here on fourble, which basically pulls from archive dot org, but it has them kinda organised as a neat, serialised podcast: https://fourble.co.uk/podcast/jonrichardsonpodcasts1
I'm pretty sure you can safely good Russell Howard BBC now! I guess some websites having higher SEO would've dragged forums and I dunno, MySpace? right to page 13 of Google search... also, I'm fairly certain, given he's done a lot of stuff for the BBC itself, you're probably more likely to find Good News clips, Mock the Week clips or even the few video clips 6 Music uploaded way back in 2007/08!
