{"id":245,"date":"2009-06-24T22:39:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T20:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegentlemansreview.com\/?page_id=245"},"modified":"2011-08-30T19:12:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T17:12:37","slug":"an-introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gents.martinwolfenden.com\/?page_id=245","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Gentleman\u2019s Review<\/strong> is a fortnightly podast featuring three people with todgers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinwolfenden.com\">Martin Wolfenden<\/a>, Andrew Wilson, Tom Stringfellow and todgerless Lisa Goddard. Oh and a lovely dog called Dill, but he doesn\u2019t say much.<\/p>\n<p>Usually what happens is everybody gathers in Martin\u2019s living room and talks a bit. Then Martin and Andy improvise a story about an auctioneer giraffe or something and Tom nods off.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being one of the oldest podcasts around, it has never been offered a knighthood, book deal or free prostitute. Nor have Martin, Tom and Andy ever been recognised in the street. Even though Martin carries around a PA system playing a loop of his voice and a big sign saying \u201cThat\u2019s me talking!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stuff that happened:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In March: First episode recorded.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In March: To celebrate their first birthday they write and perform a special audio adventure call The Talons of Time. It was written in a week and recorded straight from the page without rehearsal (which is self evident) and then they went to the pub.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In May: <em>The Gentleman\u2019s Review<\/em>\u00a0 wasn\u2019t nominated for a Sony Award. This made them very proud and Martin made a special cake out of petrol, which took everyone\u2019s eyebrows off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In March: The idiots did a nine hour, live streamed podcast in aid of Comic Relief. This made them very tired and Martin had to see a doctor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In August: \u00a0The fool\/idiot hybrids took to the stage at the Edinburgh Fringe in a one off show called \u2018The Gentleman\u2019s Review\u2019s Michael McIntyre\u2019s Comedy Roadshow\u2019. Happily the audience was ample and very kind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skynet controls a global empire from its heavily-guarded fortress-factories and research installations.<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"text-align: justify;\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td scope=\"col\" valign=\"top\" width=\"97%\" height=\"226\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-449 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"lumpycock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegentlemansreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lumpycock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gents.martinwolfenden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lumpycock.jpg 435w, https:\/\/gents.martinwolfenden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lumpycock-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Gentleman\u2019s Review is a fortnightly podast featuring three people with todgers: Martin Wolfenden, Andrew Wilson, Tom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-245","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gents.martinwolfenden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gents.martinwolfenden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gents.martinwolfenden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gents.martinwolfenden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gents.martinwolfenden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/gents.martinwolfenden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/gents.martinwolfenden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gents.martinwolfenden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}