Interview: Punt And Dennis Talk About Their New Tour And The End Of The Now Show : Page 2 of 2

Interview: Punt And Dennis Talk About Their New Tour
You got a new series coming up, Routemasters...
 
Hugh: We've got 10 episodes starting in October, on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. It's a programme where we're trying to find entertaining links between different subjects. So series one will start at the subject of beer and at the end we get to eternity – simply so we can say it's from beer to eternity.
 
Can you tell me any of the guests?
 
Steve: We don't know yet. If you want you can put down Barack Obama. It's sort of modelled on that more relaxed feel that you get with podcasts, We want it to be people talking about what they actually know, like a real conversation, not looking stuff up constantly on their phones.
 
Hugh, in 2021 you surprised everyone by appearing in No Time to Die as a scientist killed off in the first few minutes. What was it like being in a Bond movie?
 
Hugh: It was absolutely brilliant. I only did two days and one of them was learning how to die properly from various different shots to various places in my body. I had to go into this thing called the Fighting Shed where they taught me how to fall over if I've had a head shot, or if I'd been shot in the chest. Although actually in the film you don't see either of them.
 
Will Outnumbered return?
 
Hugh: We don't know really. Kids don't leave home until they're 35 now so anything could happen. I think there's always talk of Christmas specials and things. So I'm confident it will return at some point, in some form, but I don't know when that will be.
 
Any special plans for your time off on tour?
 
Steve: Hugh studied geography so he can tell us about rock formations that we're going past. We might go to things like Barometer World. Or the Pencil Museum in Keswick. And then after the gig it's a quick cup of coffee, a sandwich and bed. We're just like a middle-aged couple on a day out.
 
 
Pictures by Tony Briggs
 
 
 

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