Elis James and John Robins, of the BBC Radio 5 Live show and podcast, took That Feels Significant: Live to The London Palladium with Dave Masterman.
Elis James and John Robins, the comedians of BBC Radio 5 Live, took That Feels Significant: Live to The London Palladium in the West End on Tuesday 21 October 2025. Dave Masterman joined them on stage.
James was born in Haverfordwest in 1980 and grew up in Carmarthen, and Welsh is his first language. Robins grew up in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, and read English at St Anne’s College, Oxford. In 2006 he shared a Bristol flat with Jon Richardson and Russell Howard.
In February 2014 the pair began a radio show on XFM, later Radio X, which ran until March 2019. Its podcast passed 12 million downloads by July 2017.
The show moved to BBC Radio 5 Live in 2019. Robins was joint winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017.
The live show put the podcast’s own features on stage, among them Made Up Games, Cymru Connections and Mad Dads.