• The Old Man in The Boat

  • By: Fun Kids
  • Podcast

The Old Man in The Boat

By: Fun Kids
  • Summary

  • The Old Man in the Boat is a podcast about an old man... in a boat. 

    Out in the middle of nowhere is a large lake. And in the middle of that lake is an old man sitting in a boat.

    Listen to the characters he meets like the worm who talks, and the seagull who does something awful to the man’s beard!

    Listen, laugh and learn as the old man chats with the worm and even argues with his own shadow.

    Starring Harry Enfield and Clarke Peters.

    The Old Man In The Boat is a Message Heard production in association with Fun Kids. It is made possible thanks to funding from the Audio Content Fund.

    2024 Children's Radio UK Ltd
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Episodes
  • The Old Man and the Desert Island
    Sep 18 2021

    In the final episode, the Old Man washes up on a desert island where, in a surreal encounter, he and the Worm meet the Narrator of the series. The bottle that the genie threw into the lake in Episode 4 reappears and inside is a slip of paper that, the genie said, explains the Meaning of Life. What will it say? 

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    11 mins
  • The Old Man and The Boat
    Sep 11 2021

    The final two episodes are linked together, exploring the idea of whether an individual has a purpose, or a reason, for existing and then moves on to the biggest question: the Meaning of Life. Here, the Old Man begins speaking to his Boat, who says his purpose is simply to float. The Old Man ponders his own purpose as a big storm approaches.

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    10 mins
  • The Old Man and The Mirage
    Sep 4 2021

    The Old Man’s hunger takes hold of him in this episode and he imagines he can see a box of food floating on the lake. Sadly, it’s only a mirage. This provokes an increasingly panicky debate between the Old Man and the Worm about when and whether they can trust their senses, and what, exactly, is ‘reality’.

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    11 mins

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