May 27, 2026 · 35 min · 11 segments
This week, Jo chats to broadcaster, comedian, illustrator and all-round North East favourite Alfie Joey about a life that’s taken him from a County Durham pit village to a monastery, onto the stand-up…
My sleep patterns and my routines have been wrecked for the rest of my life with the, that sort of shift.
E- even when we're on holiday or Saturdays, weekends, I'm still first up by, usually by a long way.
Do you do the stereotypical dad's come back, he's already been for the walk to the lighthouse? [laughs]
Yeah, that sort of thing.
Well, I do ...
I used to drag me kids around parkrun-
...
I put them off that for life.
Um, nope, don't want to do that anymore 'cause I used to kid them into it and sort of w- when I was-
... dead popular and their hero and everything-
...
they would do it for me.
We do it once a year.
I get them to do, there's a Whitley Bay one that is really nice around Father's Day, so that's my-
...
My sleep patterns and my routines have been wrecked for the rest of my life with the, that sort of shift.
E- even when we're on holiday or Saturdays, weekends, I'm still first up by, usually by a long way.
Do you do the stereotypical dad's come back, he's already been for the walk to the lighthouse? [laughs]
Yeah, that sort of thing.
Well, I do ...
I used to drag me kids around parkrun-
...
I put them off that for life.
Um, nope, don't want to do that anymore 'cause I used to kid them into it and sort of w- when I was-
... dead popular and their hero and everything-
...
they would do it for me.
We do it once a year.
I get them to do, there's a Whitley Bay one that is really nice around Father's Day, so that's my-
...
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