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The older I get, the funnier Ed Reardon (R4) gets....  Ping, his Sloaney non-assistant, on a 30-years on commemoration gig for the miners' strike:

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Oh yah, that's like totes gradely

Definitely.  There's a huge parallel between Ed Reardon and Tony Hancock for me.  They just moan all the time and nearly everything they say is spot-on!  I didn't hear that Ping bit bit will look out for the repeat.  This is from someone who did a benefit gig for that very strike!
Tony Hancock?

It has references (from Ed Reardon's name onwards) to New Grub Street (1891).
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I have previously grumbled moaned about modern classical music.  But last night I came across a piece I actually liked: Lamentatio by Giovanni Sollima.  I shall have to explore his other works.
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Wilko Johnson live on the One Show last week: entertaining guitarist and great bloke, but he really should get someone else to sing.
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One-word comment from the late lamented John Peel following an odd-even-by-their-elevated-standards Sigur Rós track:

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Watched the two BBC4 Handmade films last night. The glass jar one being the easier to follow, IMHO, as we seemed to see the whole process. The knife one covered 15 hours in 30 minutes, so was a bit more disjointed to my eye.

Shame they didn't at least name the glass designer's assistant in the credits and I would've liked to have seen more of the knife blade once finished, but an interesting concept with not a word of commentary to get in the way of the processes being filmed.
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Watched the two BBC4 Handmade films last night. The glass jar one being the easier to follow, IMHO, as we seemed to see the whole process. The knife one covered 15 hours in 30 minutes, so was a bit more disjointed to my eye.

Shame they didn't at least name the glass designer's assistant in the credits and I would've liked to have seen more of the knife blade once finished, but an interesting concept with not a word of commentary to get in the way of the processes being filmed.

Ah. My Dad was talking about these, and I watched a bit of the chair one with him. V good. I've grabbed all three to watch later.
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I might be on the radio one day next week, only for about 10 mins, but still :)
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Where might we find this gem of broadcasting history on our wireless receiving sets?
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Where might we find this gem of broadcasting history on our wireless receiving sets?

:) Don't get too excited, I haven't had confirmation, yet, but it would be at 16:50 on 6Music (if you listen even semi-regularly you will know what feature is on then :) )
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I switch over after Lamacq's first track (which is usually a corker!).
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The good day/bad day thing?  Have you decided in advance whether you're going to have a good day?  :)
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Really?  Thought BBC Radio only went up to 4(extra). 

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The good day/bad day thing?  Have you decided in advance whether you're going to have a good day?  :)

No, both songs are corkers, so don't really have a preference. I might just, on purpose say I have had a bad day as all the recent ones have been good days.
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The good day/bad day thing?  Have you decided in advance whether you're going to have a good day?  :)

No, both songs are corkers, so don't really have a preference. I might just, on purpose say I have had a bad day as all the recent ones have been good days.

It is on today, at 16.50 or so.

Still undecided as to whether I am having a bad day or a good day.
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The good day/bad day thing?  Have you decided in advance whether you're going to have a good day?  :)

No, both songs are corkers, so don't really have a preference. I might just, on purpose say I have had a bad day as all the recent ones have been good days.

It is on today, at 16.50 or so.

Still undecided as to whether I am having a bad day or a good day.

I decided, at the last minute that I was having a bad day :) Nothing to do with the song choice, oh no....
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I was betting on the Terrorvision come what may!

I got the impression, from talking to the production team, that they were, too.
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Is it just me who finds it disconcerting when $AUTHOR, having written a book narrated in the first person, does the sequel in the third person?
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Is it just me who finds it disconcerting when $AUTHOR, having written a book narrated in the first person, does the sequel in the third person?

No, ian wrote.

I think many authors slip into the third person eventually, writing in the first can be limiting after a time, since you are confined to a singular, unreliable viewpoint. Or you can mix and match the first and third with crazy abandon. I stand guilty as charged, your honour.

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