RHLSTP with Richard Herring

Tuesday 24th February 2026 - Worse Than Bin Laden - Having missed the scoop of the millennium, Newsround is back in a 30 degree studio to look at the story of the arrests of Mandleson and some other guy whose name keeps changing. With special correspondent reporting from Sandringham, waiting for a massage. Usual rubbish. Spread the word.

Wednesday. 25th February 2026 - State of the Galactic Union - President Trump has done the longest State of the Union ever and Rich and Ally are here to fact check his claims. A special report suggests the whole world is in the best shape ever, which will be a great relief to us all, as long as we don’t look out the window.

Thursday February 26th 2026 - Quality Sperm - Rich and Ally are back talking about what month of the year sperm is at its friskiest. The lame stream media don’t dare touch stuff like this. Unlike the scientists who put together these reports

Friday February 27th 2026 - Galton and Simpson - Rich and Ally are back for the last Newsround of February and it’s a story the lame stream media won’t touch, last night’s by-election. Is this a vindication of Keir Starmer’s right wing policies. With an exclusive interview with the current Prime Minister (at time of recording) plus in depth political analysis from Ally Sloper. This is the only independent news source you can choose. We are delighted that the Greens won.
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RHLSTP Book Club #171 - John & Paul - A Love Story in Songs - Rich chats to author Ian Leslie about his hit book about Lennon and McCartney. Amongst other things they discuss why no other Beatles book has effectively asked why as well as what and when, whether Lee and Herring were more successful than the Beatles, how this book sends you back to the songs to remind you how truly inspirational and inventive they are, how death seemed to stalk John Lennon and whether Paul died in 1966 and Jane Asher just went along with the replacement (and the more likely hypothesis that there were always loads of Pauls, why Paul said “It’s a drag” when Lennon died, how Lennon and McCartney are similar to Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and much more.

Buy the book here - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/john-and-paul-a-love-story-in-songs-ian-leslie/7751121

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RHLSTP #600 - Paul Hollywood Hand Shandy - Richard returns to the Leicester Comedy Festival and news has broken of his upcoming appearance on Bake Off and his starring role in a (slightly) off-West End play. His guest is the feisty, slightly scary, but soft-hearted Fatiha El-Ghorri. They talk about whether she got close to marrying Greg on Taskmaster, her fantasic comedy pilot Donkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3RJwtzKk2A, how and why Rich and Fatiha struck up a very close friendship on a recent secret TV appearance which won’t do either of their reputations any good, Fatiha’s new tour and why she sometimes does clean versions of the show, ghosts, learning lines, celebrities in the audience and going public with personal news.

See Fatiha on tour https://www.fatihaelghorri.co.uk/events

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#425 Bearded Lady - Rich’s very slow take-over of TV continues and he has found a cheap and effective new drug, his guest is the man who stood in for Al Murray and who is now standing in for Nick Mohammed, (but he’s not taking it personally) Paul Chowdhry. They discuss facial hair, what constitutes a family friendly TV comic and whether edgy comedians are actually less controversial than the people on air, whether it’s possible to cancel someone who is not on TV, the problems facing comics if Matt Hancock becomes a light entertainer and the differences between a comic on and off stage and whether Chowdhry comes with a crust of fragility.

See Paul on tour https://paulchowdhry.com/ It is not a family friendly show!

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Monday 16th February 2026 - Area 51 - Rich and Ally are back with all the news that’s fit to talk about in a puppet based Newsround. Today Barack Obama has revealed that he thinks there are aliens, but have they already visited earth? And what do they look like? Is it even possible for them to get this far? With a report LIVE from Area 51 in America somewhere.

Tuesday 17th February 2026 - Pikachu - Rich and Ally are back to give you all the main stories and whilst some news outlets might be giving solemn obituaries for the great Jesse Jackson, our team have uncovered news of a very expensive Pokemon card, which Rich feels might not be worth the price tag, which I think we can all agree is the story of the day. Has all his (and your) suffering for his art been worth it? Plus we go to the (poke)man himself to find out how he feels about the whole thing in yet another exclusive interview which blows the case wide open.

Wednesday 18th February 2026 - Did Craven Do It In His Pants? - Rich and Ally are back with today’s newsround all about dancing Chinese robots and if scientists are wasting their time. There’s a special guest in to discuss this and also some upsetting stuff about Rich and Ally’s past. Trigger warning for anyone who has been touched by a puppet.

Thursday 19th February 2026 - I’m Not Going To Take It Any More - Rich is away on holiday but Ally is here to reveal some harsh truths to his young audience. Not suitable for children, though all children should listen and rebel.
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