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The Year Is

A new comedy podcast from comedians Bobby Mair and Red Richardson

Every episode we travel back to a different year in history and talk about the weirdest, most interesting and sometimes horrifying events that year.


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Bobby and Red


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Society & Culture Funny Improv Comedy History
Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
60 minutes
Episodes
88
Years Active
2021 - 2023
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"Ferrari's, Al Capone, World War 2 & Gandhi" The Year Is 1939

We've been building up to this year, and Red Richardson brings the research whilst also taking every extreme ideological position possible and offending everyone that opposes him. Enzo Ferrari sets u…

00:56:24  |   Wed 26 Oct 2022
Larry Fine, Charles Manson and Angela Lansbury - The Year Is 1970

Larry Fine, Charles Manson and Angela Lansbury - The Year Is 1970

It's a well researched episode by Bobby this week, as 1970 has piqued his attention. Bobby shares his love with us for the comedy trio The Stooges, when Larry Fine suffered a debilitating career endi…

01:01:42  |   Wed 19 Oct 2022
We Solve the Mystery of the Mary Celeste - The Year Is 1872

We Solve the Mystery of the Mary Celeste - The Year Is 1872

We have traveled back to 1872 to be the first ones to solve the mystery of the Mary Celeste ship that was discovered with no crew aboard but everything still in tact, Suffragist Susan B Anthony votes…

00:58:45  |   Wed 12 Oct 2022
The Year Is 1933

The Year Is 1933

It's 1933, a quiet year, where the Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party appoints a little known man called Adolf Hitler as their leader, and everyone lived happily ever after, meanwhile British…

01:02:08  |   Wed 05 Oct 2022
The Year Is 1966

The Year Is 1966

This week we time travel to 1966 when you might be aware was the year that England won the World Cup, but not just that, John Lennon says that the Beatles are more popular than Jesus, mass murderer C…

00:56:37  |   Wed 28 Sep 2022
The Year Is 1769

The Year Is 1769

It's great to be back in the studio, in our own space back together again. We have a lot to catch up on after Edinburgh. Red shares his unvarnished views on his month at the Fringe Festival, and has …

00:58:55  |   Wed 21 Sep 2022
The Year Is 1974 Live In Edinburgh Fringe Festival 24th August 2022

The Year Is 1974 Live In Edinburgh Fringe Festival 24th August 2022

We present another live recording from our Edinburgh shows. We had a pretty lively audience when we travel back to 1974, when the first recorded sextuplets in the world where all six babies survived,…

00:44:15  |   Wed 14 Sep 2022
The Year Is 1999 Live In Edinburgh Fringe Festival - 23rd August 2022

The Year Is 1999 Live In Edinburgh Fringe Festival - 23rd August 2022

A live recording from Edinburgh Fringe Festival last month when we time traveled back to 2013 with our audience. We teach them history, including a meteor exploding over Chelyabinsk in Russia, a 3-D …

00:46:00  |   Wed 07 Sep 2022
The Best of Bobby & Red 2

The Best of Bobby & Red 2

Another week with a new Best Of Red and Bobby as everyone comes back from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and into normal life again. Clips featured are from


1989- Hello Redophiles and another e-scooter…

01:13:38  |   Wed 31 Aug 2022
The Best Of Our Guests So Far...

The Best Of Our Guests So Far...

Continuing a short hiatus until after Edinburgh Fringe Festival we have another Best Of, featuring some of our favourite, funny moments with some of guests on the show so far.

1990- Rosie Jones. - Bob…

01:11:13  |   Wed 24 Aug 2022
The Best of Bobby & Red So Far...

The Best of Bobby & Red So Far...

With Bobby & Red both performing in Edinburgh this month, we have put together this best of episode, featuring some of their funniest moments.

1547 - Francis I of France and his sons.

1892 - Dr Bobby, …

01:11:48  |   Wed 17 Aug 2022
The Year Is 2009

The Year Is 2009

We get in the time machine for another Red Richardson researched special to 2009 this week. A year that sees Michael Jackson, the King of Pop and other things, die, along with Kill Bill star, David C…

00:58:42  |   Wed 10 Aug 2022
The Year Is 1957

The Year Is 1957

The boys are back in town. Our first episode back in the studio with everybody present who should be there, Red, Bobby and Jody. We hear about Bobby going to Canada, which Red has never been to, and …

00:54:52  |   Wed 03 Aug 2022
The Year Is 2016 With Rosie Holt

The Year Is 2016 With Rosie Holt

We are going back to 2016 and who better than to accompany us than the brilliantly funny comedian and Twitter sensation Rosie Holt, as we see Joaquin Guzman, widely regarded as the world's most power…

01:05:06  |   Wed 27 Jul 2022
The Year Is 1990 With Rosie Jones

The Year Is 1990 With Rosie Jones

Rosie Jones storms her way onto the podcast and Bobby and Red get in the time machine to take her back to the year she was born, 1990. Aside from being the year of birth of our biggest fan, 1990 also…

01:07:23  |   Wed 20 Jul 2022
The Year Is 1996 With Guest Host Jayde Adams

The Year Is 1996 With Guest Host Jayde Adams

It's the Red Richardson show this week and he has with him, his very funny friend movie star Jayde Adams to make sense of the world according to 1996 whilst Bobby has some explaining to do. Back in t…

00:56:16  |   Wed 13 Jul 2022
The Year Is 1971

The Year Is 1971

It is 1971 this week, a year which sees American daredevil Evil Knievel setting a world record by jumping 19 cars on a motorbike in Ontario, California, Qantas agrees to pay $500,000 to Peter Macari …

00:56:05  |   Wed 06 Jul 2022
The Year Is AD 30 With Alasdair Beckett-King

The Year Is AD 30 With Alasdair Beckett-King

Strap into the time machine and shotgun a comfortable seat as we are going all the way back almost 2000 years to AD 30, and what better guest to have join us than the the very funny and very nice but…

01:20:27  |   Wed 29 Jun 2022
The Year Is 1979 With Alfie Brown

The Year Is 1979 With Alfie Brown

We are back in the Time Machine and brought our very funny friend Alfie Brown with us when a tsunami in Nice, France killed 23 people, China introduces it's infamous one-child policy for families eve…

01:06:18  |   Wed 22 Jun 2022
The Year Is 2001 With Ed Night

The Year Is 2001 With Ed Night

Possibly one of the most important significant years of the modern age and so very fitting that we have our very funny friend Ed Night to help us make sense of it all. 2001 brings with it a revolutio…

01:03:35  |   Wed 15 Jun 2022
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