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Let's have some words;
Try BBC7 for all your comedy needs. Absolute classic radio comedy such as Round The Horne*, The Men From The Ministry, The Navy Lark plus more recent stuff like Chambers, Absolute Power, Goodness Gracious Me (all three have since moved to TV), also a six day archive for any gems you might have missed. Bloody marvellous.
There's a bit of drama on it too but I don't really listen to that. Yawn.
Try XFM for some early examples of the comedic talents of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant ably asisted by producer Karl Pilkington on their Saturday afternoon radio show. Later shows: Season 1 and Season 2.
Ricky and Stephen were with XFM from its inception but left for a few years. Given that my strongest memory of their very first shows is of Ricky shouting "Oh sh*t, I've spilt beer into the mixing desk", I ain't surprised.
They became rich and famous, writing and producing the award-winning programme The Office, but graciously came back to XFM.
The shows streamed on the site are extremely funny and have an added edge in that the presenters start off cheery and genuinely chummy but their closeness gradually degenerates into mutual suspicion and argument, with producer Karl frequently attacking co-presenter Stephen for being physically freakish; Stephen maintaining Karl is mentally freakish in addition to consistently criticising and denigrating Karl's attempts at thinking up quizzes and features for the show; and Ricky egging both of them on and manipulating them into on-air confrontation. Physical violence occurs about twice. There is frequent use of coarse language. Almost all possible religious, ethnic and sexual minority groups are disparaged (and majority groups as well). Discussion of monkeys features prominently in most of the shows.
I can't wait for them to come back...
Try Philosophy Radio. OK, a bit of a sea-change from the last two but if chat on philosophical themes tickles your pickle, this is where it's at. Good, if you like that sort of thing. I know I do.
*Round The Horne starred Kenneth Williams, best known for the Carry-On films but he had a much more varied career than that. Perhaps his most famous character on the show was that of Sandy in the "Bona" sketches (all nattered in polari). OK, heartface?
Try BBC7 for all your comedy needs. Absolute classic radio comedy such as Round The Horne*, The Men From The Ministry, The Navy Lark plus more recent stuff like Chambers, Absolute Power, Goodness Gracious Me (all three have since moved to TV), also a six day archive for any gems you might have missed. Bloody marvellous.
There's a bit of drama on it too but I don't really listen to that. Yawn.
Try XFM for some early examples of the comedic talents of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant ably asisted by producer Karl Pilkington on their Saturday afternoon radio show. Later shows: Season 1 and Season 2.
Ricky and Stephen were with XFM from its inception but left for a few years. Given that my strongest memory of their very first shows is of Ricky shouting "Oh sh*t, I've spilt beer into the mixing desk", I ain't surprised.
They became rich and famous, writing and producing the award-winning programme The Office, but graciously came back to XFM.
The shows streamed on the site are extremely funny and have an added edge in that the presenters start off cheery and genuinely chummy but their closeness gradually degenerates into mutual suspicion and argument, with producer Karl frequently attacking co-presenter Stephen for being physically freakish; Stephen maintaining Karl is mentally freakish in addition to consistently criticising and denigrating Karl's attempts at thinking up quizzes and features for the show; and Ricky egging both of them on and manipulating them into on-air confrontation. Physical violence occurs about twice. There is frequent use of coarse language. Almost all possible religious, ethnic and sexual minority groups are disparaged (and majority groups as well). Discussion of monkeys features prominently in most of the shows.
I can't wait for them to come back...
Try Philosophy Radio. OK, a bit of a sea-change from the last two but if chat on philosophical themes tickles your pickle, this is where it's at. Good, if you like that sort of thing. I know I do.
*Round The Horne starred Kenneth Williams, best known for the Carry-On films but he had a much more varied career than that. Perhaps his most famous character on the show was that of Sandy in the "Bona" sketches (all nattered in polari). OK, heartface?
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