Novelist Mike Gayle has forged a career in industries largely populated by women. He’s a former agony uncle, responding for dispensing advice to worried teenage girls, and his bestselling books like Turning 30 and My Legendary Girlfriend explore relationships and manhood in really accessible ways. Here he talks men, women, pole vaulting, great calves, stallion thighs, lovely fingernails and the day he realised he absolutely definitely needed glasses. Get in touch and have a great day. And please...
Jul 13, 2022•57 min
It’s one year of Manatomy! Today, the hugely affable Martin Roberts joins Danny & Phil with an urgent message. Martin is one of daytime TV’s most familiar faces, thanks not just to Homes Under the Hammer, but also his appearances on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and for stripping off for The Real Full Monty. But what he thought was Long-COVID and took him to the doctor’s turned out to be something else incredibly dangerous, and if he hadn’t sought help he was told he’d have had only min...
Jul 06, 2022•52 min
America’s Got Talent and BBC America star Jonathan Goodwin is the Welsh daredevil and escapologist famous for his incredible acts of bravery, skill and risk. It’s what got him his own show - The Incredible Mr Goodwin - and a reputation for thrilling audiences worldwide. But in just one moment, his whole world - and body - changed. Today, we talk fear, risk, mindset, and paralysis. We can’t thank Jonathan enough for his openness and insight. Find him on Twitter at @TheDaredevil Get in touch and h...
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr 1 min
The lightning-quick TV and radio broadcasting genius that is Johnny Vaughan is our fiftieth guest on Manatomy, and it’s important you appreciate he is bang on six-feet tall, with feet also a remarkably specific length. Today, he takes us from top to toe in typically freeform manner, talking heart attack adverts, tan-lines, paunches, quads, incredible sportsmanship, and style (his stories about selling sexy boxer shorts will never be forgotten). Get in touch and have a great day. And please do co...
Jun 22, 2022•50 min
This guy is an absolute dude. A pop-artist who took up the game after leaving Tesco at 40, he quickly became a favourite of the Gallagher brothers, Arctic Monkeys and more. He can sum up the life of a body with just a few of his brushstrokes - despair, delight, love, angst. But his own body - raised on Sheffield stodge - has given him a few surprises, and in this episode, he tells Danny & Phil about the shock his body one day surprised him with - but which led to more than a little enlighten...
Jun 15, 2022•59 min
Winner of the Comic’s Comic Award, the hugely funny and affable Scott Bennett joinsDanny & Phil this week, to talk twisted testicles, his wonderful hair, exhaustion, anxiety, mid-life, and the unfairness of genetics. Scott’s always gigging, but has a full tour coming up - find all the 2022 dates atscottbennettcomedy.co.uk And check out the podcast he does with his very funny wife, Jemma - Brew with theBennetts (@BWTBPod on Twitter). Get in touch and have a great day. And please do consider l...
Jun 08, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Thoughtful and erudite comic Mark Watson has put his body through a lot over the years. Whether it’s adrenaline, stress, panic or literally ending up near-starving on a desert island eating snails. Here he talks with Danny & Phil about booze, self-criticism, fear, losing control, anxiety, confidence, doubt and so much more. It’s a great chat with a man who, like a lot of men and women, maybe needs to forgive himself more. Get in touch and have a great day. And please do consider leaving a re...
Jun 01, 2022•1 hr 1 min
The brilliant journalist and author Sam Delaney is also the brains behind the excellent The Reset podcast and newsletter. Why The Reset? Because Sam had to do just that. In this episode, he talks just as frankly but always as entertainingly as he writes, about booze, drugs, addiction, anxiety, hair loss, and the trip to IKEA that went very wrong indeed. It all sounds like A Lot, but Sam is such great company that it flies by. Our thanks to him. Check out The Reset at https://samdelaney.substack....
May 25, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Chef Andre Rush is one-of-a-kind. Once a sickly kid, he grew into a US Army Master Sergeant with enormous biceps who does 2,222 push-ups every single day. He also became a chef. One who would find himself a White House chef, cooking fordiplomats and no fewer than four US Presidents. On September 11th 2001, he was in the gym at the Pentagon when the attacks happened. He immediately signed up for combat duty. On the show, he talks male pride, masculinity, Arnold Schwarzenegger, PTSD, and what Pres...
May 18, 2022•54 min
We talk about things we’ve never talked about on the show before, thanks to record-setting LBC broadcaster and journalist James O’Brien, whose article on the shock of realising you may be close to infertile has helped very many men. Elsewhere, he talks his own adoption and the strange feeling of not knowing who you’re growing up to look like, the toxic men so many ‘posh’ schools pump out, hair loss, bad knees, and shaking hands with the men at the sperm place. Get in touch and have a great day. ...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 10 min
When he was in his early 20s, Ed Gamble weighed around 19 stone, or 265lbs. He lost more than a third of his body weight in just months. In this episode, the Off Menu podcast superstar and Great British Menu TV host talks binge-eating, type 1 diabetes, injecting yourself in public, and looking like an American GI. Get in touch and have a great day. And please do consider leaving a review - it all genuinely helps the podcast. Well, if it’s nice it does. Don’t forget you can subscribe to our twice...
May 04, 2022•52 min
Superstar Irish comedian Jason Byrne is a whirlwind of energy, sweatily whipping up crowds around the world - and even his recent health scare can’t stop him. Plus, he brilliantly and hilariously talks opticians, lazy eyes, thick glasses, red hair, pale skin, lanky frames, the way Spanish lads smell, and of course Irish dads. Jason’s very funny memoir of childhood, “Adventures of a Wonky-Eyed Boy”, is available on Amazon, with a sequel coming soon. Get in touch and have a great day. And please d...
Apr 27, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Living legend Tony Blackburn has been one of the most famous faces - and voices - in the UK since before many of us were born. The iconic radio deejay and TV presenter is a grafter, an enthusiast, an optimist and at nearly 80 years old, still packed with energy. He’s also very funny. Here he sits down with Danny and Phil to talk sex, drugs, rock and roll, the 60s, mortality, mental health and how to be like him at 79. Plus he apologises to runner beans. Get in touch and have a great day. And ple...
Apr 20, 2022•54 min
The papers might call him a “roly-poly Northern funnyman” but glass-half-full Justin Moorhouse, has a lot more going on than that. Prepare for medical revelations, body frustrations, and a pure mic-drop moment of clarity and realisation. Plus a load of laughs, with a man who can’t not be funny. Oh, and what the hell’s “the cabbage diet”? Get in touch and have a great day. And please do consider leaving a review - it all genuinely helps the podcast. Well, if it’s nice it does. Don’t forget you ca...
Apr 13, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Rapper and grime artist Lethal Bizzle found his moniker on the school football pitch, startedmaking music there too, took it to pirate radio - and before he knew it was in the UK Top 10. A gym nut, but a junk food fan, here he sits down with Danny and Phil to talk gyms, racialprofiling, six-packs, and that sweet, sweet year he had the perfect haircut. We thank himvery much. His new album LETHAL B vs LETHAL BIZZLE is out right now. Pow! Get in touch and have a great day. And please do consider le...
Apr 06, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Not many male models are known by name, but David Gandy is definitely one of the few. Britain’s highest-earning male model is globally recognised and constantly in demand - ever since *that* Dolce & Gabbana shoot that saw every single inch of him take over Times Square. What must all this be like for an Essex boy who never meant to model in the first place? Here he talks rejection, self-doubt, hang-ups, ageing and fatherhood - and it’s a real insight into his world. David’s ace new Wellwear ...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 3 min
It’s the turn of comedy superstar Ross Noble to discuss his body this week, which was a surprise to him. He talks long hair, chicken wings, and the unexpected onset of gout. And also about having the eyes of Nicolas Cage. Get in touch and have a great day. And please do consider leaving a review - it all genuinely helps the podcast. Well, if it’s nice it does. Don’t forget you can subscribe to our twice-weekly newsletter, packed with stories and useful stuff, at manatomy.co.uk.
Mar 23, 2022•59 min
This man, Roh Yakobi, wears and bears the scars of war. His dad was the local militia commander, and life was hard. He was kidnapped by the Taliban aged 12, imprisoned, and tortured. He fled to Pakistan as a child, smuggling opium across the border, and Iran, where he worked as a child labourer in factories and construction sites. He made it to Britain in 2004, and is now Associate Fellow at the Human Security Centre. He also likes his fish and chips. Find him on Twitter at @rohyakobi. TW: Talk ...
Mar 16, 2022•1 hr 14 min
In one of our favourite episodes, the critically-acclaimed writer Tony Schumacher talks honestly and hilariously of the thousand lives he’s lived. From growing up as an initially non-speaking, non-cute kid - “I looked like a Kinder egg with long arms” - to the decade of long nights he spent driving around Liverpool as a police first responder, Tony’s experiences are visceral, exciting, traumatic - but delivered with an easy, laid-back wit you’ll love. The former council tip worker and roofer - n...
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 3 min
The Zambian-born Malawian comic, writer and star of TV and radio Daliso Chaponda sitsdown with Danny and Phil this week - and he is fascinating. He talks being the son of arefugee-turned-diplomat, shirtlessness, growing up as a very cute child indeed, and thepride of being a long distance runner. Plus, going to what we think might be the veryweirdest school in Africa. Get in touch and have a great day. And consider leaving a review - and telling your cousins. Don’t forget you can also subscribe ...
Mar 02, 2022•56 min
When the very funny and charming Alex Brooker was a kid, there weren’t many people like him on TV. So he grew up thinking there weren’t many people like him at all. He’s worked to change that, and here the hugely popular journalist and TV host tells Danny and Phil about girls, the week he drank nothing but pepper juice, and the day he discovered a genuinely world-champion level skill he had no idea he had. Get in touch and have a great day. And consider leaving a review - and telling your barber...
Feb 23, 2022•58 min
“Guys get judged as harshly in Asia as women get judged in the West” says globetrotting Malaysian-Chinese comedian and insanely popular social media superstar Nigel Ng. Uncle Roger himself talks diets, six-packs, hairlines, cooking fish in an office microwave, make-up for men, British boozing and Bruce Lee. Nigel’s off on a World Tour - from London to Singapore to Seattle and everywhere else - but his new podcast HAIYAA means he can stay at home with you, so definitely check it out, wherever you...
Feb 16, 2022•57 min
Actor and comic Rufus Hound joins Danny and Phil to talk about how sexy he suddenly feels these days. Where does that confidence come from and how do we get it? Elsewhere, he discusses tattoos, facial hair, receding hairlines, ADHD and more. TW: Rufus discusses at one point why he thinks it may be that he can’t take advice from older men, and there’s chat about the corresponding mental health issues. As ever, email us on hello@assemblehere, find us on Twitter @assemblehere and please consider le...
Feb 09, 2022•45 min
Mr Motivator, aka Derrick Evans, is a British TV legend, a diversity pioneer and a man who can’t swear so says “Flip me!” instead. His brightly coloured lycra-clad body changed the way millions of viewers thought about exercise, and today, at almost 70, he’s not slowing down. He talks to Danny and Phil about adoption, racism, homelessness, bullying - and the day he found that lightbulb fitness moment quite by accident. Get in touch and have a great day. And please do consider leaving a review - ...
Feb 02, 2022•53 min
Actor, poet, hip hop star and podcaster Scroobius Pip sits down with Danny and Phil this week - and what follows is a wide-ranging chat about body image struggles, hipsters, height, the kinship bearded men have, tattoo removal and the beauty of Brazilian jiu jitsu. Get in touch and have a great day. And please do consider leaving a review - it all genuinely helps the podcast. Well, if it’s nice it does. Don’t forget you can subscribe to our twice-weekly newsletter, packed with stories and useful...
Jan 26, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Film star and arena-filling comedian Jack Whitehall sits down with Danny and Phil, to talk about posh bodies, weak chins and bad posture. And also about the night his father inadvertently revealed himself to a gaggle of shocked youths. Get in touch and have a great day. And please do consider leaving a review - it all genuinely helps the podcast. Well, if it’s nice it does. Don’t forget you can subscribe to our twice-weekly newsletter, packed with stories and useful stuff, at manatomy.co.uk....
Jan 19, 2022•47 min
Genuinely legendary photographer and the man whose portraits have defined whole eras Rankin is our guest this week, and the show is packed with his thoughtful wisdom on men, men’s bodies, male nudity, penises, self-confidence and empowerment. The man who’s captured the essence of not just entire decades but everybody from the Queen to Arnold Schwarzenneger is entirely open and this is, dare we say it, a fantastic episode. Get in touch and have a great day. And please do consider leaving a review...
Jan 12, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Stand-up and sitcom star Mike Bubbins has had many bodies: weightlifter, rugby professional and 70s detective are just three of them. Here, he tells Danny and Phil about the confidence it takes to wear Speedos, the lure of luscious moustaches, dying your sideburns and what it’s like to rip your bicep off. We find out what he smells of, the time he was nearly punched clean out of a boxing ring, and the only moment he’s ever really confronted his mortality. As ever, email us on hello@assemblehere....
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Europe’s Strongest Man Luke Stoltman is known as the Highland Oak. Together with his‘little’ brother Tom, he’s proved one of the most popular and impressive strongmen in thesport. Here he talks muscles, mindset, Big Man Breakfasts and how a man working on an oil rig became the strongest on the continent. Plus, what being a “wee daftie” in the body of a Greek God is like, and how uncomfortable restaurant seating is. Also - we tell you how towin a pair of VIP tickets to a UK strongman event of you...
Dec 29, 2021•52 min
The very English body of Stephen Fry is discussed this week, with the author, comedian, and - obviously - national treasure only too willing to discuss bent noses, small paunches, school showers, Faustian pacts, cocaine, bipolar, getting one over on Biff Tannen, 80s gay clubs, and self-acceptance. We cannot thank him enough. Get in touch and have a great day. And please do consider leaving a review - it all genuinely helps the podcast. Well, if it’s nice it does. Don’t forget you can subscribe t...
Dec 22, 2021•1 hr 2 min
