Hosted on Chortle.co.uk and accessible via iTunes[1] and RSS,[2] the show started in 2009 as a spiritual sequel to the Ray Peacock Podcast.

A live show spawned from the podcast, the Peacock and Gamble Emergency Broadcast, which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe as part of a tour.

Ray Peacock (real name Ian Boldsworth) met Ed Gamble at a revue at Durham University.

The Ray Peacock Podcast was successful, spawning live shows (attended by special guests such as Harry Hill[4] and The Office actor Ewen MacIntosh[5]), but ended after four series, as the presenters felt they were spending too much time making fun of Raji.

No longer presented by Raji James, the show was slightly more freeform than the previous podcast, with fewer recurring features - the humour being more autobiographical and anecdotal than its predecessor.

In early incarnations of the feature, Peacock would suggest a "forgotten food" that the listener may not have recently eaten, such as pickled eggs and beef jerky, in order to encourage them to eat it again.

[9] For the last few episodes of the feature's run, the "foods" that Peacock suggested were no longer even edible - rather, he would ramble for two minutes, asking the listener to eat tractors or ghosts, or abstract concepts such as physics and religion.

Another fan-based feature was PG Tips, in which Peacock and Gamble would deal out advice to problems sent in by listeners, regardless of their lack of credentials.

[10] The Tiger Lillies contributed "Gouge My Eyes Out", which is used as the show's theme tune, whereas "Vagina", "Maggots", and "Banging in the Nails" are used between sections.

Sidebottom was a friend of the duo, and upon the occasion of his death, Peacock and Gamble dedicated a section of the podcast to the man's life, and ended the show with his cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody".