...to celebrate beer gardens reopening

John Robins is launching a new podcast series celebrating his love of the Great British pub.

The Moon Under Water launches on April 12 - the same day pubs across England are allowed to reopen their beer gardens and outdoor spaces.

Robins will act as landlord with musician and fellow comedian Robin Allender as a regular and each week a guest will describe their dream watering hole: from the drinks to the music  to what they’d ban.

Guests confirmed for series one include Danny Wallace, Vick Hope, Jodie Kidd, Sarah Millican and Nish Kumar. 

The title of the podcast comes from a 1946 essay George Orwell wrote about his ideal London pub – and later co-opted by Wetherspoons for several of its establishments.

Orwell concluded his essay: ‘And if anyone knows of a pub that has draught stout, open fires, cheap meals, a garden, motherly barmaids and no radio, I should be glad to hear of it, even though its name were something as prosaic as the Red Lion or the Railway Arms.’

The literary link seems to have inspired Robins, who said of his new podcst: ‘The Moon Under Water is a pub of the mind, one you always dreamed of, but never quite found. It exists down the lamp-lit alleyways of the past, and you may well stumble upon its warm glow in the o’er rotating streets of the future. It is desire, loss, memory and dream.’

The Moon Under Water with John Robins is an Audio Always Production, and will be available on all major podcast platforms.

Published: 29 Mar 2021