Council Fines, Transport Tidings & The Sausage Bandit

Dec 16, 2025
35 mins

Episode Description

Producer Diggory steps in to reveal the heartwarming details of Buckinghamshire’s newest school – built in a millionaire’s garden before Queenie reports on the sausagey mystery gripping Bristol’s local Facebook scene. 

Next, Emerald offers her 2025 Transport Tidings complete with a train miracle fit for Christmas and the news that the UK’s biggest pothole has finally been filled. To finish, we play the missing word round where we learn why listeners are complaining about Radio 4, what the worst habits on trains are and about Diggory’s love of The Archers…

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Your hosts are Queenie Miller 
Emerald Paston 
And Diggory Waite, filling in the absent Jack Harris and merry Mike Rayment

The Producer is Diggory Waite
The Executive Producer is Claire Broughton
The Music is by Big George

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