Plenty of the usual lively chat from Kim’s kitchen. Monsieur Leclerc puts in a brief appearance as an exploding pudding seller, but is ejected before he has a chance to speak. In a scene involving Lieutenant Gruber, the writers are powerless to resist a “they eat faggots for breakfast gag”. Kim’s unusually tanned complexion and the liveliness of the acting hint at a recent break from filming. Disguised as monks, Flick and von Smallhausen look even sexier than usual, and soon find themselves tang...
Jul 08, 2025•35 min•Ep. 49
The episode commences with a duet from René and Edith. Needless to say, one of them is more in tune than the other. The airmen, concealed in a pair of large mines, are being trained in how to release themselves in mid-air by unscrewing their nuts. Once again, despite elaborate groundwork by Michelle of the Resistance, things do not go according to plan. In the kitchen, Kim’s hospitality towards her fellow peasants is as lavish as ever, and as they toil at their work, the heatwave raging outside ...
Jul 01, 2025•26 min•Ep. 48
René has arrived at the café still wearing his hospital gown after last week's escapade. The fun starts right away as Gruber makes an entrance, and René tries to avoid turning around. Flick orders von Smallhausen to be smuggled into the mortuary, disguised as a corpse, Bertorelli’s trousers are used to hide the money, and the Colonel impersonates a French peasant on the telephone. Despite starting the pod by saying there is not much to say, Kim and friends soon find plenty of lively stories to s...
Jun 24, 2025•29 min•Ep. 47
The Peasants have to persuade themselves to come in from Kim and John's sunlit garden to record this week’s pod. But it turns out to be no hardship, as the episode gallops along. Monsieur Alphonse finds himself in Herr Flick's cellar, being questioned by Helga in connection with the money from the bank robbery. But the sight of her stocking tops is too much for his dicky ticker, and he soon finds himself in hospital – a German one – which is fraught with jeopardy. There are the usual antics, as ...
Jun 17, 2025•19 min•Ep. 46
Life doesn't get any simpler for René – as ever. While the long-distance duck is made ready for launch, carrying microfilm of the German plan for the invasion of England, she produces a clutch of ducklings. As the Colonel and Gruber divvy up the bank robbery money, Helga takes exception to being short changed over her share. Out in the town square, Crabtree orders a pound of “wonkles” from Flick and von Smallhausen, disguised as fish sellers. See Kim, Guy and Richard live in the Listen Very Care...
Jun 10, 2025•24 min•Ep. 45
Life doesn't get any simpler for René – as ever. While the long-distance duck is made ready for launch, carrying microfilm of the German plan for the invasion of England, she produces a clutch of ducklings. As the Colonel and Gruber divvy up the bank robbery money, Helga takes exception to being short changed over her share. Out in the town square, Crabtree orders a pound of “wonkles” from Flick and von Smallhausen, disguised as fish sellers. See Kim, Guy and Richard live in the Listen Very Care...
Jun 03, 2025•23 min•Ep. 44
The team marvel at the inventiveness of the writers, David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, who had to deliver a continuous series of 26 episodes with no outside help. The scale of the task boggles the mind, and yet there is tons of plot, gags aplenty, and lots of disguises. These include, once again, Mimi and Herr Flick in prams, dressed as unlikely babies, pushed by René in the garb of a priest and Helga in a nurse’s uniform, complete with – naturally – lots of red lipstick. Following a successful bank...
May 27, 2025•19 min•Ep. 43
Following the fiasco in the previous episode involving the mix-up with the generals and their disguises, Gruber and the Colonel are in big trouble with the top brass, and make a plan to hide out in the Vatican until after the war. Needless to say, things do not quite go according to plan. As René makes himself handy with some bricklaying, Guy and Richard recall their days doing building work in between acting jobs – and Kim turns out to have put in a spot of bricklaying too. This week marks the ...
May 20, 2025•23 min•Ep. 42
As René puts it in his opening speech, it is just a normal Tuesday in wartorn France. After nearly blowing Herr Flick to smithereens, he prepares to flee Nouvion, but is saved at the last minute by Lieutenant Gruber. Herr Flick, following his ordeal, is in bandages and chains – which Helga wastes not time in yanking. Yvette and Michelle of the Resisitance have a heart-to-heart about their feelings for René, during which Michelle admits that he drives her round the twist (tweest). The story ends ...
May 13, 2025•24 min•Ep. 41
In spite of Bertorelli’s efforts with his pistol in the previous episode, the homing duck turns out not to be dead – just having a little rest. Monsieur Alphonse attempts to take its temperature in an intimate fashion, and is rewarded with a faceful of feathers. There is high entertainment when the duck turns out to be a she, and lays an egg in Fanny’s bed. René masquerades as a French general, complete with an exploding nose, which blows Herr Flick off his feet. Michelle asks to be alone (alern...
May 06, 2025•32 min•Ep. 40
Welcome once more to Kim’s kitchen, where there is fun to be had with René and the staff, trying as ever to please the Resistance as well as the Germans. In the mcourse of a summit meeting at the chateau of a collection of German generals, René has been ordered by Michelle to photograph a map of their planned invasion, using a prosthetic arm and a little knob under his apron. Kim, Guy and Richard marvel once again at Carmen’s skilful playing, and enjoy Jack Haig and Kenneth Connor playing togeth...
Apr 29, 2025•38 min•Ep. 39
Plenty to chat about, as ever, starting with respectful recognition of a dazzling performance by the duck. After recording so many episodes, the tripod realise that there are moments they have completely forgotten, and are watching them as though for the first time. Mimi does an oiutstanding turn in the café, with high kicks and tapping, to thunderous applause. To escape the Communist Resistance, Edith swaps places with Madame Fanny, who comes close to being compromised by Monsieur Alphonse. At ...
Apr 22, 2025•20 min•Ep. 38
Following their slightly lukewarm review of the previous episode, the trio are back in fan mode. René attempts to leave the country disguised as an ancient Jehovah’s Witness, which fools no one, but offers the opportunity for a Jack Haig impression. Gruber and Helga get into disguise as a pimp and his lady, in a plan to protect René in his complicated relationship with the Communist Resistance. Carstairs reflects on whether there is such a thing as the Liberal Resistance. Kim reveals that she st...
Apr 15, 2025•23 min•Ep. 37
Kim and Richard begin by suggesting that this was not the best episode ever. Guy challenges them robustly, and after finding plenty to talk about, the tripod agrees that it is pretty good after all. René and Edith reminsce about their early romance, and how she was the most beautiful girl in the town – in fact, the only girl in the town. There is the capture of René by the Communist Resistance, and the wedding that he is obliged to make to their leader, the fearsome Denise Laroque – which gives ...
Apr 08, 2025•20 min•Ep. 36
Crabtree is is caught up in the demolition of the town convenience, and we are treated to a glimpse of an evening at home with the Flicks. Phoebe Scholfield, who usually plays Henriette – stalwart member of the Maquis Resistance – seems to have changed sides, and appears this week with the Communists. The production team do not seem to have noticed… The airman have some solid scenes this week, which leads the trio to lament that they didn’t have more to do in the series over all. Kim recounts an...
Apr 01, 2025•30 min•Ep. 35
Much to enjoy this week. Kim marvels at the pace of Gorden’s opening monologue, and declares it an example of dynamic playing for all actors. She also pretends not to get excited about the numbering of the podcasts. Kim and Guy notice for the first time that this episode marks the beginning of a romance between Helga and Gruber that will eventually result in marriage and children. Boohoo Herr Flick… In the real world, Kim is spotted in a cinema in which she is appearing, and Ron Hartman – better...
Mar 25, 2025•25 min•Ep. 34
Despite the fact that his episode is entitled Dinner with the General, there is very little talk either of Dinner or the General. Instead the chat covers a range of topics, loosely around the making of 'Allo ‘Allo! – including a fire practice at the studio with the cast of Doctor Who, and the madness of working on the tv series by day and onstage in the West End by night. Guy proves himself to be a cat whisperer, and we are treated to the reading of a letter by the head of the studio, Ron Hartma...
Mar 18, 2025•24 min•Ep. 33
What better setting for an episode about a potato than Kim's kitchen? The usual fun and laughter, as the trio are joined by Ron Hartman for vital insights. Gruber is surprised in his bath by René, as Helga lets down her hair for Herr Flick. Kim tells of her first theatre job as a smoke squirter and mouse puller, and Richard and Guy discuss their first encounters with the paparazzi. Meanwhile, Edith gets a goosing from Monsieur Alphonse. Now also on video at: https://www.youtube.com/@HelgaGruberF...
Mar 11, 2025•24 min•Ep. 32
Following the success of the first Listen Very Carefully season, this episode introduces the much-awaited Season 2. While the podsters talk about the Desperate Doings in the Dungeon, Kim’s kitchen transitions into a studio, as the pod launches for the first time on video as well: https://www.youtube.com/@HelgaGruberFlick/videos Viewers are treated to the sight of both René and Herr Flick chained to a dungeon wall, dressed in the undergarments of a woman of the opposite sex. Gruber looks fetching...
Mar 04, 2025•25 min•Ep. 31
We present a special bonus episode, sent to us by Christopher Beswick, of a full-length interview he conducted with Gordon Kaye in 1991, when he had returned to work following his life-threatening accident.
Jan 16, 2025•29 min•Ep. 30
This episode marks the end of Season One, and we celebrate with a surprise guest and a “guess the mystery voice” game. Although this episode is called the Jet-Propelled Mother-in-Law, no one can decide what the episode is actually about – as we encounter the people from the café treading grapes, and various other antics around Nouvion – as well as von Smallhausen savouring his rare moments of revenge.
Dec 31, 2024•28 min•Ep. 29
The podders attempt to keep track of the sausages. After the first twenty they give up, exhausted. Kim entertains with a tale of pranks on tour. Christian Dyall gets a bit of worship for his imaginative and lavish costumes. But where is the real painting of the Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies? Did the writers even know?
Dec 24, 2024•21 min•Ep. 28
As Mimi takes to the skies as an airborne nun, it is an astounding week for cast impressions. Guy treats us to a Bertorelli, as well as a Michelle of the Resistance, and Kim delivers a terrifyingly realistic von Smallhasuen. A double disguise for Herr Flick – first as a gypsy playing the fiddle with gloves on – then into Helga's uniform to fool no one as Frau Kinkenrotten. Kim entertains with a tale of trying to fly a box kite with her dad.
Dec 17, 2024•21 min•Ep. 27
This week, despite distractions from Alexa, a photographer called Rowan and a bottle of Prosecco, Kim, Guy and Richard maintain their usual level of sober professionalism while discussing the episode in which the new characters of Captain Bertorelli and Mimi la Bonq are introduced.
Dec 10, 2024•22 min•Ep. 26
Is there such a thing as an episode-numbering nerd? Or geek? Or both? Question: Who literally cares which season or blinkin' episode this is? Answer: Kim, as well as some of the show's most militant archivists. Anyway, this is Pod 24, and the fun starts long before we unveil our literally special guest. Tune in and meet her/him/them. The series says farewell to Sam Kelly as Hans, as he is catapulted over the wire, and Francesca Gonshaw as Maria, who is posted to Switzerland in a parcel. For a ch...
Dec 03, 2024•37 min•Ep. 25
The committee starts to get strict about overuse of the word "wonderful" – which is likely to have little effect. More fun and frolics in the prison camp, and the trio celebrate the rare privilege of seeing Richard Marner do the Can Can, Gruber dressed as a nun, and Helga singing a long-overdue Lili Marlene.
Nov 26, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Amid panto reminiscences from our pod trio (tripod), we discover that Fanny's pet name for her lover van Gogh was Bobby. While Guy and Richard get all knowing about the McGuffin device in detective stories, Kim insists it is a burger chain meal deal. They discuss the lengths that some performers will go to in order to secure a close-up, including gaining access to the camera scripts (some of them dummies created by the production team to throw them off the scent). Meanwhile, Kim, Guy and Richard...
Nov 19, 2024•28 min•Ep. 24
British airmen dressed as ladies of the night; Maria and Yvette disguised as ancient crones; a melodramatic fake murder scenario during a flamenco performance by Edith in the café; a plan to smuggle the airmen into the prison camp via a tunnel from the mortuary; a priceless van Gogh that has been hanging unnoticed in the café and turns out to have been a gift from the painter to Fanny during a passionate affair. Busines as usual in Café René. Back in Kim's kitchen, our hosts question the story t...
Nov 12, 2024•23 min•Ep. 23
More nuggets from Kim’s kitchen, as the trio mull over the events of the double-length Christmas Special – involving attempts from all sides to bump off General von Klinkerhoffen. Sam Kelly receives a well-deserved round of applause from the studio audience for his virtuoso speech about “the pill in the till, the drug in the jug and the Gateau from the Chateau”. There is talk of a crashing air balloon, screwing down a billiard table, and Gorden’s graceful handling of props. A mischievous prank b...
Nov 05, 2024•22 min•Ep. 22
Now that René has recovered the painting, Michelle plans to catapult the airman away in a glider, using elastic from men's braces. But collecting them in the dead of night presents yet another problem for the long-suffering café owner. A runaway steamroller flattens Herr Flick's staff car, which is only insured third-party. As the village clock chimes eight outside Kim' cottage, it's time for our hosts to crack open the gin.
Oct 29, 2024•23 min•Ep. 21
