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Hosted by Matthew Crampton · comedy · EN-GB
Stand by your beds! The Big Muddler is here, delivering a delicious dose of old-style radio comedy. Sketches ... silly songs ... improbable stories, corralled by the unusual mind of Matthew Crampton. It's a variety of nonsense - and we all need variety.
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Signup to Generate a PitchStand by your beds! The Big Muddler is here, delivering a delicious dose of old-style radio comedy. Sketches... silly songs... improbable stories, corralled by the unusual mind of Matthew Crampton. It's a variety of nonsense - and we all need variety.
The Big Muddler is hosted by Matthew Crampton. The show has published 20 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "3.6 A Surprise in the Tropics" (30 July 2026, 29 minutes), "3.5 True Garbage - Stages of Mind Control" (8 July 2026, 28 minutes), and "3.4 Tolstoy Bingo & guest David Eagle" (22 June 2026, 28 minutes).
The Big Muddler publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 26 minutes across 20 episodes.
Booking probability for The Big Muddler is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Big Muddler requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Big Muddler's contact route on record: verified email.
Matthew Crampton hosts The Big Muddler, a comedy podcast with 20 episodes published.
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Episode #6
We're back in the forest - this time somewhere tropical and eastern - to eavesdrop on the local bigwig's grand departure. But things do not go as planned. Ah well. This season finale gathers many of the show's usual...
Episode #5
Woah! I thought The Big Muddler was a comedy show, but this episode's been hijacked by a documentary podcast called True Garbage . Everything gets a bit serious as presenter Jeff Flatley welcomes you Garbageers to...
Episode #4
Huh? How come David Eagle - comedian, folk singer, podcaster, and a man barely past forty years old - is popping up as a guest on post-war podcast The Rest is Jollity ? It certainly sounds like him. There's not just...
Episode #4
<p>Huh? How come David Eagle - comedian, folk singer, podcaster, and a man barely past forty years old - is popping up as a guest on post-war podcast The Rest is Jollity? It certainly sounds like him. There's not just...
Episode #3
<p>Ooh it's chilly here. Not just because we're inside a refrigerated unit. Something menacing has descended upon this corner of the underworld - and justice is about to be served cold. The boss has found an excellent...
Episode #2
<p>The enemy are closing in. They’re approaching from Lowestoft, AND Beccles. Worst of all, they’ve got a new weapon, some kind of audio device. But will regulation ear defenders be strong enough? Unlikely...
Episode #1
<p>Season Three is here! - heralded by a global mystery in Seoul. A strange box has appeared on the stage of k-pop supergroup JeanStarz. Let's pray it's not an alien music box...</p><p>Once again The Big Muddler brings...
Episode #6
<p>Boy did they laugh. Yes, The Big Muddler is back before a live audience, this time at the magical festival of FolkEast, held each summer in deep, flat, golden Suffolk. It was late on Sunday evening. A sturdy, sozzled...
The Big Muddler
<p>Here's a little treat while you're waiting for the next full show. It's the Great Crustaceans! We haven't heard from them in a while. But Cornwall's premier shellfish rock band have been busy doing what they do best...
Episode #5
<p>Welcome to The Big Muddler's Seaside Special - recorded before a bubbly crowd at the gorgeous Manor Pavilion in Devon. It's August 2025 and Sidmouth Folk Festival has bravely scheduled a live recording of this...
The Big Muddler
<p>It's a Muddler Interruption! Sorry for the delay in regular programming, due to "A&E visits" and "an unexpected heart condition" (yeah right....). Here's a short sop to satisfy your Muddler cravings. It's a nugget...
Episode #4
<p>This extra-length episode features a spooky winter story - fab! - which starts at 18.35 (if you want to dodge the nonsense beforehand). Why not gather the family for its 17 minutes of chilling...
Episode #3
<p>We're with some armed marines, crossing wild seas off Scotland to check on an isolated lighthouse. Gosh, what's driven those keepers crazy? Could it be? No! Well, maybe. Yes. It is! It's another edition of The Big...
Episode #2
<p>It's not every day you get to experience The Big Ride within Jakarta's Jade Megaphallus Tower. But something's loose in the lift. The muzak's turned rogue. And, oh my goodness, there's an outbreak of variety in this...
Episode #1
<p>We're back, despite popular demand. The Big Muddler mounts another aural assault on your eardrums, unleashing Season Two of a podcast that no-one has described as 'the greatest variety-based radio entertainment of...
Episode #6
<p>It's time to get feckless in Texas, at a strange simian start-up built by the muskrat himself. Why are those apes serving beverages to their human guests? And how will they serenade the tea party? All gets revealed...
Episode #5
<p>Blimey, this new episode is all over the place. It starts at Everest base camp, but soon goes downhill. There are trips to South America, back to Tibet, and good 'ol London Town. The band on the beach, Great...
Episode #4
<p>The neurosurgeons can’t believe what they’ve found lurking in their patient’s cerebellum. And once again The Big Muddler makes its presence known. In another, ridiculous episode of this ‘comedy’ podcast, we venture...
Episode #3
<p>What a revelation! Learn exactly why Stonehenge was built. Such truth has long eluded experts but now slips out during a dodgy variety show. But that's not all you get from this 26 minutes of mirth and mayhem. We...
Episode #2
<p>Well, it should have been a routine coupling at London Zoo's mating laboratory (aka The Shag Lab) but something unusual happened. And once again, The Big Muddler has muscled into town with its dubious blend of...
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