Shows / Answer Me This!
Answer Me This!
Award-winning comedy podcast answering the world's questions since 2007. Hosted by Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann, with Martin Zaltz Austwick. Support the show at https://patreon.com/answermethis
Episodes
Answer Me This!AMT423: Infinity pools, Einstein ads, and incubating an egg in your underpants
Before listening to AMT423, you have to do a couple of minutes of homework, which is to watch the video we just reposted at facebook.com/answermethis. Then…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: Stir and Forget. Stir and Forget.
Welcome to this month's Answer Us Back, full of your feedback and questions provoked by previous Answer Me Thises. On today’s dance card: ● Elly from London…
Answer Me This!AMT422: Strictly, TK Maxx and Stickers from the Dentist
AMT422’s questioneers want to know how to count how far away lightning is striking, what is the strictness in Strictly Come Dancing, who was the first monarch…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: Fridge Magnet Rotator
Welcome to this month's Answer Us Back, full of your feedback and questions provoked by previous episodes of Answer Me This. Today we have: • Look, we recorded…
Answer Me This!AMT421: Camp Classics, Singing Washing Machines, and Muffins
In AMT421, questioneers want to know about orchestra conductors falling off their plinths, why their washing machine plays a little tune, why humans got into…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: Consider the Bidet
Welcome to this month's Answer Us Back, packed full of your responses to previous episodes of Answer Me This - or as it will soon be rebranded, Could Be…
Answer Me This!AMT420: G-strings, Cuck Chairs and Fatbergs
In AMT420, questioneers want to know whether airplanes have keys, what the G stands for in g-string, and why hotel rooms have one solitary chair staring at the…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: Nelly Tagliatelle
Every edition of Answer Us Back features your responses to/observations upon previous episodes of AMT, some of them many many years old - but today's episode…
Answer Me This!AMT419: Living Statues, Mangelwurzels, and Tom Cruise’s Cakes
AMT419’s questioneers need to know how living statues get to work, whether ladybirds do have homes to fly away to, what happens to stadiums with brand names…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: scab library
Hello! Welcome to this month's edition of Answer Us Back, featuring your responses to and observations upon past episodes of AMT. Today: Responding to AMT417’s…
Answer Me This!AMT418: Prop Cigarettes, Charlie Chaplin’s Moustache, and Condom Machines
What would you do with a copy of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged? One questioneer needs any answer other than 'read it'. AMT418's questioneers also wonder how they…
Answer Me This!AMT417: Shotgun Weddings, Oldest Ballet Dancers, and a Collection of Baby Teeth
This month, questioneers want to know why shotgun weddings and three line whips are called that, what the deal is with those little fish-shaped bottles of soy…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: Something has to go in that hole
Welcome to this month's edition of Answer Us Back, full of your feedback on AMTs old and new. Today: Following AMT416’s discussion of meat fondue, Amanda gives…
Answer Me This!AMT416: LEGO Titanic, Curried Whale and World Book Day
AMT416’s questioneers want to know what to do with their wedding suit post-divorce, why is World Book Day, how Nelson’s Column is cleaned, whether Brits during…
Answer Me This!AUB 2026-03
Hello! Welcome to this month's edition of Answer Us Back, full of your feedback on AMTs old and new. Today: Helen's going to watch ice hockey this weekend…
Answer Me This!AMT415: BLTs, Zambonis and the Wingdings Conspiracy
This month, questioneers want to know what Zambonis are up to on ice hockey rinks, what Wee Willie Winkie is up to running through the town, why not many…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: Tobermory Carvermory
Hello! Welcome to this month's edition of Answer Us Back, full of your feedback on AMTs old and new. Today: In response to AMT413's question about unusual food…
Answer Me This!AMT414: Wax Seals, Y2K Songs, and the Butler Doing It
This month, questioneers want to know about songs for the year 2000, what the deal is with wax seals, why we say “The butler did it!” when the butler never did…
Answer Me This!AMT413: Secret marriage, wet Mr Darcy and transparent pie
How do you tell your parents you’ve been married for several years? Is bell-ringing a sport? What should you wear on a TV quiz show? How rich/soggy is Mr…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: Naughty Elves and Same-names
Answer Us Back: Naughty Elves and Same-names by Answer Me This!
Answer Me This!AMT412: Widow’s Peaks, Mixtapes and Garlic
AMT412’s questioneers want to know why Innocent smoothies wear little woolly hats, how to increase someone’s spice tolerance, whether someone making you a…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: Tiaras & Cadavers
Wake up, babe - a new AMT feature just dropped! Midway through the interminable month between new episodes, we’ll be doing an Answer Us Back episode that’s all…
Answer Me This!AMT411: Sperm Donation, Snake Charming and Open Top Bus Parades
AMT411: Sperm Donation, Snake Charming and Open Top Bus Parades by Answer Me This!
Answer Me This!AMT410: Unwanted Tattoos, Cherry Wine and Sexy Old Men
AMT410: Unwanted Tattoos, Cherry Wine and Sexy Old Men by Answer Me This!
Answer Me This!AMT409: Nude Furniture, Cheesecake Factory and Eating Slugs
Today’s questioneers want to know whether to hide bawdy home decor when kids visit, how one comes to own a cemetery, why cities are full of artist-decorated…
Answer Me This!AMT408: Tiaras, Private Investigators and the King's Mucky Gloves
Today’s questioneers want to know, among other things, what private investigators actually do, what happened to Deely Boppers (Deely Bobbers?), how to greet…
Answer Me This!AMT407: Cartoon Anvils, Dating Semi-Celebs and Lobster Piss
Today’s questioneers want to know why a coffee shop will have either good coffee or good chairs but not both, WTF Judi Dench’s voice is doing at Disney World…
Answer Me This!AMT406: Slicing Socks, Polyglot Popes and Stealing Butter
Why do Danes slice up the bride’s veil and the groom’s socks at a wedding? Is it OK to take pats of butter from a cafe? How/when do Popes learn Italian? And…
Answer Me This!AMT405: Biscoff Spread, Pretzel Symbolism and Pole Vault Poles
It's one of those fantasy questions that gets batted around when "Who would you want at your fantasy dinner party?" has been wrung dry: what would you spend…
Answer Me This!AMT404: Sand Heists, the Northern Lights, and Werewolf Menstruation
In AMT404, listeners want to know where to go to see the northern lights, why Jesus's official birthday and deathday aren't on the same calendar, and who is…
Answer Me This!AMT403: Popcorn, Vertigo and Toby Carvery
We've been making this show for a long time. We have had SO many questions about weddings. And yet, in AMT403, we get a whole fresh spin on the Wedding WTFery…
Answer Me This!AMT402: Tall Ships, Branston Pickle and Bagpipe Lung
Can you bloody well believe it? New AMT in your ears in the year 2025?? Well, it's real! In AMT402, listeners ask about roller derby names, baked bean beans…
Answer Me This!AMT313: Love on an Escalator, Political Posters and Poogatory - 30 April 2015
A questioneer has to choose between her health and her dream job. Another wants to eat something older than he is. Decisions, decisions. Read more about the…
Answer Me This!AMT311: Buddha, Starbucks and the Hollywood Walk of Fame - 2 April 2015
Today we learn the topless past of the Starbucks logo, how you get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and the cost of installing a bowling alley in your…
Answer Me This!AMT310: Brownies, Crisps and the Jurassic Park Ballet - 19 March 2015
Today's episode features post-coital smoking, Cubs in a car crash, and the continuing soap opera of one poor questioneer's life. Visit…
Answer Me This!AMT306: Ainsley Harriott, Colleagues on Tinder, and Chicken Kiev - 22 January 2015
Jog along to answermethispodcast.com/episode306 to read all about today's episode. Send questions to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com, or the Question Line…
Answer Me This!AMT301: Rock Circus, Hooters and the Chippendale Murders - 30 October 2014
Visit http://answermethispodcast.com/episode301 for all the information you crave about this episode.
Answer Me This!AMT298: Henry Hoover, 'Uptown Girl' and Being Shot In The Balls - 18 September 2014
All the information about this episode resides at http://answermethispodcast.com/episode298
Answer Me This!AMT297: Sea Monkeys, Peppers and 'Gobbing in the Pot'
All the information about this episode resides at http://answermethispodcast.com/episode297
Answer Me This!AMT296: The Great British Bake Off, Ballet and Gromit - 21 August 2014
Visit http://answermethispodcast.com/episode296 all the information you crave about this episode.
Answer Me This!AMT293: Viagra, Dead Rockstars and Horny Warlords - 3 July 2014
Hello listeners, When you're trying to make new friends, what's the best icebreaker? One of today's questioneers thinks talking about death is the way to go…
Answer Me This!AMT291: Bank Robbery, The Pope on Holiday, and Craig David's Toffee Crisps - 5 June 2014
Today, one poor tired questioneer asks how to stop being kept awake by their mum's sex noise. Any advice for them? Apart from cranking up Answer Me This!…
Answer Me This!AMT286: Oktoberfest, Castles and the First Ever Naughty Film - 27 March 2014
Hello listeners! Very exciting news: we've made a Radio 4 documentary to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the word 'podcast'. It's in two installments, out…
Answer Me This!AMT285: Saloons, Natalie Imbruglia, and Magnolia - 13 March 2014
In response to AMT284, the first few minutes of Answer Me This! Episode 285 are SO exciting, you should listen RIGHT NOW - though do keep listening beyond the…
- Answer Me This!
Keith and the Girl
Keith O'Malley and Chemda Khalili, AKA Keith and the Girl, talk to Helen Zaltzman for the documentary Podcasting: The First Ten Years, a production by Trevor…
- Answer Me This!
Dan Savage of Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage of the Savage Lovecast talks to Helen Zaltzman for the documentary Podcasting: The First Ten Years, a production by Trevor Dann's Company for BBC…
- Answer Me This!
Roman Mars of 99% Invisible
Roman Mars of 99% Invisible talks to Helen Zaltzman for the documentary Podcasting: The First Ten Years, a production by Trevor Dann's Company for BBC Radio 4…
- Answer Me This!
Ewan Spence of ESC Insight
Ewan Spence of podcasts including ESC Insight talks to Helen Zaltzman for the documentary Podcasting: The First Ten Years, a production by Trevor Dann's…
- Answer Me This!
Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver of the Bugle
Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver of The Bugle talk to Helen Zaltzman for the documentary Podcasting: The First Ten Years, a production by Trevor Dann's Company…
Answer Me This!AMT284: Ice Skating, Seal and Men Wearing Ladies' Knickers - 27 February 2014
After seven years of this show, IT HAS FINALLY HAPPENED. THE question! To whom is it being popped? To YOU? Find out immediately by listening to Answer Me This!…
Answer Me This!AMT283: Bruno Mars, the Duracell Bunny, and the sex life of Mr and Mrs Pepperpot - 13 February 2014
Hey! Listeners! What are you doing here? Throw your internet devices to the floor and sprint to Chelmsford in order to be second in the queue (behind this…
Answer Me This!AMT282: Mastermind, Coriander and Coffins - 30 January 2014
What would YOU like to be buried in, listeners? A solid gold sarcophagus? A Zorb ball? A burlap sack? Contemplate this issue whilst listening to Answer Me…
Answer Me This!AMT281: Ice Sculptures, Pubs and Cat Litter - 16th January 2014
Hello listeners! The podcast is BACK for 2014. And changes are afoot; listen to Answer Me This! Episode 281 to discover what they are. But as normal, we talk…
Answer Me This!Montage from the Answer Me This! Christmas album
A little selection box of snippets from the Answer Me This! Christmas, out now at iTunes, Amazon and our very own Answer Me This! Store. For more about the…
Answer Me This!AMT280: Tinder, Men's Fashion and the Zoltar Machine - 28 November 2013
On this day, dear listeners, we arrive at the final new AMT episode of 2013. We'll be revisiting some of the Incredible Moments of the AMT year in our Best Of…
Answer Me This!AMT Christmas album sample: pudding carol
A little snippet of the Answer Me This! Christmas album, available now at answermethispodcast.com/Christmas
Answer Me This!AMT279: Hangovers, Grandparents And Stage Magic - 21 November 2013
Abracadabra! Alacazam! Bippity Boppity Boo! Hey Presto! And other words stage magicians probably don't use any more! But as if by magic, out of the…
Answer Me This!AMT278: Action Man, RomComs and Marmite - 14 November 2013
Apologies for our absence last week; normal service resumes today with Answer Me This! Episode 278, in which we discuss: pissing with Clint Eastwood Annie Hall…
Answer Me This!AMT277: The Millennium Bug, Godparents and Pissing With Celebs - 31 October 2013
This week's episode comes from AMT's rural outpost: Olly's new house in the countraayyyyyy. And you know who else lives there? Of course it's Olly's beloved…