The SOS bar has a chilled-out vibe this week, as Sally-Anne and Lou invite radio royalty to join them in a Tom Collins (or 6 in Lou's case) and chats with the one and only Sara Cox about those adolescent early drinking days and partying at Fat Boy Slim's house. We also hear about what living in a house of Mormons in Japan was like .... Join Lou and Sally-Anne LIVE at The London Podcast Festival on Friday 10th Sept, for tickets and info, go to kingsplace.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The SOS bar has gone transatlantic with this week's guest! That's right Sally-Anne and Lou have managed to bag their first guest from across the pond and it's none other than Drag Race's very own Acid Betty!That's right, in this international episode, we get to hear some stories of drinking past, with a big spin on the 90s ... just don't let Betty hear you say that's retro.Join Lou and Sally-Anne LIVE at The Podcast Festival in London with special guest Grainne Maguire! For info and tickets go to www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We've got a special treat for you today, as Sally-Anne and Lou welcome This Country's long-suffering vicar, Paul Chahidi to the SOS bar!As the session progresses, it's clear that Paul is a long way from his alter-ego of Rev Francis and spills the beans on some times in his student past which would shock even the likes of Kerry and Kurtain!You too can visit the SOS bar, when Lou and Sally-Anne take to the stage at SOS LIVE at this year's London Podcast Festival, at Kings Place, where they'll be joined by special guest Grainne McGuire. For tickets and info, go to kingsplace.co.uk - see you there! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The SOS bar is open for business and this week Lou and Sally-Anne are joined for a deconstructed Pornstar Martini by radio DJ, TV presenter, and all-round good laugh, Lauren Layfield!The team gets stuck into teenage tales of rebound drinking woe and the trials of being a lady caught short .... you'll hard relate, we promise. Join Sally Anne and Lou at the London Podcast Festival 2021! The ladies take SOS to the stage on Friday 10th Sept at 9:30 pm, for full info and tickets, go to:www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/london-podcast-festival Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The SOS bar is OPEN and joining Lou and Sally-Anne is a comedian and earliest adopter of the brandy balloon to date - it's Zoe Lyons!Zoe regales us with stories worthy of David Niven himself...David Niven after a 6-hour drinking session that is. Join Sally Anne and Lou at the London Podcast Festival 2021! The ladies take SOS to the stage on Friday 10th Sept at 9:30pm, for full info and tickets, go to:www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/london-podcast-festival Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The SOS bar is well and truly open and this week Lou and Sally-Anne's drinking buddy is comedian and live wire, Rob Rouse!It's a high-energy escapade that will leave you giddy with excitement and slightly hungover ....Join Sally Anne and Lou at the London Podcast Festival 2021! The ladies take SOS to the stage on Friday 10th Sept at 9:30pm, for full info and tickets, go to:www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/london-podcast-festival Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The SOS bar is open and it would be criminal of you not to crack-open an Iron Bru and join Lou and Sally-Anne with this week's guest, crime writer, musician, comedian, AND actor, Mark Billingham. Yes although the guest chose a PG drink for this week, the ladies couldn't resist making it an 18 with dashes of vodka, Aperol, and in one case ...Bailys - which worked out about the way you think it would. We also hear about the time Mark pilfered a legendary rock group's rider backstage at Glastonbury. Lou and Sally-Anne will be LIVE at The London Podcast Festival 2021 - catch them on September 10th at 9:30pm - for all info and tickets, go to: www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/london-podcast-festival Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lock up your drinks cabinets, Lou and Sally-Anne are loose and on the lash! Yes, the SOS bar has gone mobile and took itself to the Brighton Fringe, where in front of a very lively audience our hosts were joined by the wonderful George Egg who brought not one, but THREE marvelous medicines for you to try at home and decide for yourself if you want to Spit or Swallow!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you've been 'Counting Down' the days until the next session at the SOS bar, then your wait is over, as Sally-Anne and Lou welcome the one and only Susie Dent for a glass or 4 of red and a chin-wag about past tales of drunken woe. Despite her bookish image on the TV, Susie has a fair few stories of a misspent youth which she kindly shares with us all, plus we finally find out the workings of dictionary corner.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Propping up the SOS bar with Sally-Anne and Lou this week is comedy stalwart and professional hat-wearer, Simon Munnery!Simon's ethos is, why have one drink, when you can have three, which sounds like a brilliant idea to us, so join in with the heady mix of organic wine, cider, and lemon presse ... oh-la-la! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, comedian, actor, and improviser pops into the SOS bar to enjoy a glass and a half of rose with Lou and Sally-Anne, whilst she's there she gives us a guided tour around adolescent mao of drinking disasters, and we also get a lesson in improve and how it can improve your life!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the SOS bar this week, Lou and Sally-Anne welcome comedian and one half of the 'Off Menu Podcast', it's Ed Gamble, who by the sounds of it has never gone for a quiet pint in his life, as he seems to have a drinking game for every type of alcoholic beverage invented - NONE of which you should try at home... and we mean that, absolutely NONE of them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Here they are again, yes Lou and Sally-Anne are back, and helping them to prop up the SOS bar this week is QI Elf and one-quarter of No Such Thing As A Fish - Anna Ptsaszynski! As well as being stuffed full of facts, Anna is also a wealth of amazing tales of drunken debauchery and on hearing this, you'll wish you were her partner in crime on a night out - just don't eat the green sweets!   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After 22 previous episodes, Lou and Sally-Anne decided it was time for a medical and so enlisted Dr Phillip Hammond to talk through how they stay in tiptop health whilst drinking about 4 times the recommended alcohol limit and obviously start asking him about their poo ... Poor Dr Phil.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Once again, the SOS bar is OPEN and today's guest is the perfect drinking companion, it's comedian Shaparak Khorsani, who started off with all good intentions, but soon let Lou and Sally-Anne degenerate things.  Shaparak shares some epic stories of drunken endeavors and also recounts a tale that highlights the disparity between how men and women are viewed when engaging in drunken activity.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A very mellow time was had by all in the SOS bar, as legendary comic Stewart Lee brings with him a laidback charm, aided and abetted by his choice of whisky and tales of drunken nights past, so pour yourself a dram and come sit by the fire to bathe in the warm glow of boozy stories and the sound of Lou eating pork scratchings (don't worry, we only let her have one).   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Spit or Swallow bar is well and truly open with this week's guest, who has the power to stop traffic and make a Margherita at the speed of light, it's the one and only Carol Decker! Being the singer of one of the biggest bands of the 80s, our Carol certainly has a tale or two about overindulging in a rock n' roll style and after hearing this, you'll wish you were spending lockdown in the Decker household. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The SOS bar is full to capacity as Sally-Anne and Lou welcome two giants of podcasting and comedy, Rhod Gilbert & Sian Harries from The Froth podcast to sip some fancy red wine and talk about soiling themselves in a hat (only one of them actually did this - which one is your money on?). There are drunken tails a-plenty, some of which are a revelation to their romantic partners... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The SOS bar is well and truly open and it looks like Sally-Anne and Lou have finally met their matches in this week's guests, Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn AKA - The Summy Mummies! As well as double the guests the gang decide on the swallowability (new word - you're welcome) of double the drinks! As always our hosts wheedle out some hilarious drunk stories from the guests and in this week's case, get them to dish the dirt on each other.... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Sally-Ann and Lou are joined by comedian, and impressionist, Josh Berry! Josh is of course the master of voices such as Louis Theroux, James Acaser, and Donald Trump and so gives us an insight as to what some of those A-Listers may sound like whilst drunk. We also get to hear about drinking rituals and initiation ceremonies that go on amongst the students of Oxford University, by the end of the podcast you'll be an alma mater yourself, whilst Lou and Sally-Ann will just be on some kind of list for pervy aunties... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The SOS bar is well and truly open and joining Lou and Sally-Anne from his kitchen was the complete and utter legend Bernie Clifton! As you would expect from such a stalwart of showbiz, there are stories involving some of the most legendary names in the world of entertainment, plus the ostrich joins in with the wine drinking.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week's episode is a tonic and not just because the amazing Larry Dean is in the SOS bar, but because he also made Lou and Sally drink that staple of Edinburgh hard-nuts, Buckfast 'wine' ....I mean this drink alone should warn us all that religion and alcohol are NOT good bedfellows. Basically, these guys drank it, so you don't have to  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sally-Anne and Lou are here again and joining them is the brilliant comedian, Jo Caulfield! Jo came prepared with some wine for everyone to sample and reminisce about 'those' teenaged parties where drinking and snogging were par for the course ...some things never change.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Spit or Swallow bar is open for business, but apparently other beverages apart from alcoholic ones are available, and get this, you don't HAVE to drink booze in bars! Who knew? Well, this week's guest Jason Manford is well versed in the nuances of ALL the coca colas, so that's what the team get stuck into - but don't worry Jason still has tales a-plenty of misadventures with alcohol, even if some of them aren't his own!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's time to swing your pants in the SOS bar, as Sally-Anne and Lou make their childhood dreams come true and get drunk with Trev & Simon! Yes, it's swigging corner, rather than singing corner, as the group drinks some lethal espresso martinis and swap tales of drunken exploits, including the time Trev nearly threw-up on live Saturday morning TV & Simon woke-up on the Isle-of-Wight... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Spit or Swallow bar, which today is serving its signature meal, courtesy of special guest Rustie Lee! Yes, Sally-Anne and Lou are joined by legendary presenter and TV chef, Rustie Lee!We kick-things-off with how to make a dish created by Rustie especially for the occasion, before moving onto some cringe-worthy tales of youthful drinking, which was enough warning for our guest to limit her alcohol intake from henceforth. We also get treated to some amazing stories from Rustie's career, including a tale about making Princess Diana's legs fly-up in the air!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Look who's in the Spit or Swallow this week with Lou and Sally... it's only bloomin' Jimmy Carr! As you would expect, Jimmy has had a very full, jet-setting social life and stories to match! What was Stephen Hawking like to party with? Where is the best place to drink whilst visiting Japan? And which motorway has Jimmy been sick on? Look no further than this very episode for the answers to all those questions and lots more!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Spit or Swallow pub is open once more and propping-up the bar this week is TV presenter, Yvette Fielding! Yvette of course was the youngest ever Blue Peter presenter back in the day and by the sounds of it, that time in her life was a real baptism of fire - not least in the introduction of alcohol. As Yvette is of course synonymous with ghost hunting, so it's not only spirits of the liquid variety which get a look in on today's show...As always, this is for adults' ears only - so put your headphones on and pour yourself a double.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lou and Sally-Anne are here again ... well Sally-Anne is anyway, Lou, as you'll hear was somewhat 'festive' in this week's episode - not that it was recorded anywhere near Christmas, but it seems the most polite way to say 'completely smashed'.  Luckily, comedian Joe Lycett was on-hand to provide a leveler to proceedings, whilst sharing some drunken tales of his own and introducing some incredibly posh wine to our hosts; one of whom sloshed theirs up the wall .... any guesses as to which one that may have been?  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sally-Anne and Lou are back and joining them is a guy who is far too nice to have any blind-drunk stories...or is he? As always our hosts get to the nitty-gritty and manage to unearth some tales from Nathan's drunken history and also manage to extract a lovely rum punch recipe from him along the way...get stuck-in! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, comedian, actor and writer, Emma Kennedy quaffs along with Lou and Sally-Anne and offers an insight into a more refined wine palette, failed auditions and some behind the scenes goss from 'Strictly' which will make you see one of it's stars in a whole new light...ENJOY!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sally-Anne & Lou are back with another episode of SOS and as always , they are not alone. Joining them for another evening of quaffing and chat is none other than the national treasure known as CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS! It's no surprise to anyone that Biggins chose champagne as this week's beverage - and as it was recorded just before Christmas 2020, it added to the festive atmos - but what will the verdict be on the Lidl fizz our hosts sent to him? Will it be a spit or a swallow?This episode is a delight, so pop a cork and immerse yourself in some delicious showbiz gossip from our esteemed guest; What is Joan Collins' drink of choice? What was it like to party with Princess Diana? Does The Queen like dirty jokes? Have a listen and find out ... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lou and Sally-Anne are here again and this week's guest journalist, Ayesha Hazarika is still in festive mode, opting for a tasting session with Bailys Irish Cream, which goes up-against a supermarket's own alternative ... but which one will 'cut the cream'. Ayesha also elevates the show to a regal level, as her MBE status means she has some incredible stories about meeting Prince Charles (not a fan of the Labour Party it turns-out) and going hungry in Buckingham Palace. She also spills the beans about the drinking culture and plethora of (subsidised) bars within Westminster - one of which proves you should never talk to 'Strangers' ... you'll have to listen to the episode to get that joke, but it's good...it works!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joining Sally-Anne and Lou in today's episode is the fantastic comedian, SARAH MILLICAN! The ladies have a week-off from the vino, as Sarah herself no longer partakes in the devil's juice, so thought she'd take us on a nostalgia trip and test the various ways one can have a Vimto. Now, while Sarah's abstinence is indeed commendable, our hosts have no intention of joining her and so found various ways of turning this syrupy, soft drink into an adults only beverage - including the classic Cheeky Vimto. But is this a spit or a swallow ... there's only one way to find out...  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices