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And if that’s just not highbrow enough for you, then you could always enrol at The Half-Open University…\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFeaturing in-depth looks at little-known and little-heard works by Peter Cook, Sue Townsend, Ivor Cutler, Kenneth Williams, N.F. Simpson, Peter Tinniswood, Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci, Malcolm Bradbury, John Sessions, Joe Orton, David Renwick And Andrew Marshall, Rowan Atkinson, Toby Hadoke, The National Theatre Of Brent, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop and more, \u003Cb\u003EThe Larks Ascending\u003C\/b\u003E is the full history of silliness and satire on the channel that Dr. Hans Keller called a 'daytime music station'. Priced at just a few pence*!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n(*Please direct all complaints about actual price to Peter Weevil and John Throgmorton, Polyphonica Neasdeniensis)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/tim-worthington\/the-larks-ascending-a-guide-to-comedy-on-bbc-radio-3\/paperback\/product-24047716.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPaperback\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E - \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B07Q73NBVZ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EKindle\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYou can hear me talking about the book and some of the shows featured in it here:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ciframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200px\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.simplecast.com\/2156002a?color=f5f5f5\" width=\"100%\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/7638963184450865353"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/7638963184450865353"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/the-larks-ascending.html","title":"The Larks Ascending"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjUYtiax-gbnrxzSeou5I2UdnQHmm6Cfz7IEDqUj8n_5GxNLIhPuX3n8aZj2WSit13u_OEoZwPWAedCjX-5rnUBpRln0WdTRgZQ0fj32WDWccgqVByMojop-LkCvDqpEU0_PtWBVNayH2HP\/s72-c\/larksfc-1.png","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900616647854839749.post-1435170518305560758"},"published":{"$t":"2019-03-06T12:19:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-03-06T12:19:28.002+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"1993"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"1996"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"1997"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"blue jam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"blur"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"box set"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"chris morris"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"emma burnell"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"france gall"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jenny morrill"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"looks unfamiliar"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"loungecore"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"modern life is rubbish"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the cardigans"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the gentle people"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Box Set: Loungecore"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhJFULVTj5C-Cs2_YSs0KUgfkGpIHiBQ673RSSmRKIkgol_VCbi_CxjgPG7v-dQMXOevkGmr5s3VXnnaf1mImRjKMxNJ8eUcJD9o1XuSX0z_G81UYr7u8kmoWX2SFYNY9NWciSWfSFVxnJb\/s1600\/cardilife-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"500\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhJFULVTj5C-Cs2_YSs0KUgfkGpIHiBQ673RSSmRKIkgol_VCbi_CxjgPG7v-dQMXOevkGmr5s3VXnnaf1mImRjKMxNJ8eUcJD9o1XuSX0z_G81UYr7u8kmoWX2SFYNY9NWciSWfSFVxnJb\/s400\/cardilife-1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EA collection of some of my recent features on mid to late nineties loungey indie dance music...\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt looks as though some of you aren't aware that I now have a new website (which you can find \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Ci\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\n and are still hanging around here wondering where all the new 'content'\n is. Well it's over there, obviously. To give you all some idea of where\n to start, though, I'm adding some new posts here with \nthemed collections of links, and this time it's some of my recent \nfeatures and podcasts about the long-forgotten Britpop spin-off Loungecore...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2019\/02\/12\/come-on-and-love-me-now\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ECome On And Love Me Now\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E - the enduring appeal of Life by The Cardigans\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2019\/01\/30\/amongst-them-trevor-the-sheep\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAmongst Them Trevor The Sheep\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E - what \u003Cu\u003Ereally\u003C\/u\u003E happened when Chris Morris' Blue Jam got taken off-air halfway through a show?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2019\/01\/27\/i-love-the-gentle-people\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EI Love The Gentle People\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E - how did a kitschy lounge\/dance act come to be all over daytime television and 'lad' mags?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2019\/01\/08\/food-processors-are-great\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFood Processors Are Great!\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E - why I still find Modern Life Is Rubbish by Blur inspiring and exciting, and why the nonsense about it 'inventing' Brexit should be slung into the nearest burning bin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2018\/12\/31\/looks-unfamiliar-33-emma-burnell-theyre-only-eating-macaroni\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ELooks Unfamiliar: Emma Burnell\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E - Emma shares her memories of nineties Easy Listening radio station Melody Radio.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2018\/09\/20\/looks-unfamiliar-28-jenny-morrill-i-just-get-pictures-of-actual-boots\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ELooks Unfamiliar: Jenny Morrill\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E - Jenny talks us through her attempts at looking like Justine from Elastica.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2018\/02\/03\/im-meaner-im-leaner-i-aint-no-inbetweener\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2018\/02\/03\/im-meaner-im-leaner-i-aint-no-inbetweener\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EI'm Leaner, I'm Meaner, I Ain't No Inbetweener\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E - late nineties Post-Diana moody trip-hop and the bewildeirng rise of unlikely chart star Jimmy Ray.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2018\/01\/08\/je-suis-perdue-dans-la-nuit-dans-cette-ville-ou-je-vis\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EJe Suis Perdue Dans La Nuit, Dans Cette Ville Où Je Vis\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E- how I discovered 1968 by France Gall.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Chr style=\"background: rgb(127, 0, 0); color: #7f0000; height: 2px; width: 90%;\" \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg8ngGUTutGna3debKiA5oI-D_93jDOUsvcPiV2m4iThG-nLeWF0BjbOz50-bZYJ_mxqX8pGEOuuQMKS8F7tpWXKP3nbT-m3V7-kcjBtgTPNm6JSjRKYPvMXWePaLlCoG1Z8GAw-tCfvDx4\/s1600\/notonyourtelly.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"320\" data-original-width=\"211\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg8ngGUTutGna3debKiA5oI-D_93jDOUsvcPiV2m4iThG-nLeWF0BjbOz50-bZYJ_mxqX8pGEOuuQMKS8F7tpWXKP3nbT-m3V7-kcjBtgTPNm6JSjRKYPvMXWePaLlCoG1Z8GAw-tCfvDx4\/s200\/notonyourtelly.png\" width=\"131\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENot On Your Telly\u003C\/b\u003E is available in paperback \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/tim-worthington\/not-on-your-telly\/paperback\/product-21425873.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E or from the Kindle Store \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Not-Your-Telly-Tim-Worthington-ebook\/dp\/B01N942477\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E. And there's several other books to choose from \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.co.uk\/p\/books.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E...\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/1435170518305560758"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/1435170518305560758"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/box-set-loungecore.html","title":"Box Set: Loungecore"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhJFULVTj5C-Cs2_YSs0KUgfkGpIHiBQ673RSSmRKIkgol_VCbi_CxjgPG7v-dQMXOevkGmr5s3VXnnaf1mImRjKMxNJ8eUcJD9o1XuSX0z_G81UYr7u8kmoWX2SFYNY9NWciSWfSFVxnJb\/s72-c\/cardilife-1.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900616647854839749.post-6850354402103051828"},"published":{"$t":"2017-07-09T00:00:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-07-09T00:00:02.023+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"blue jam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"chris morris"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fun at one"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"radio 1"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"E Arth Welcome... In Blue Jam"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhL_jB72u0ZUlixLHAQ0JxHdyV0Kxoo9d2VE2Nc9BVY8UTcVg1apD7elp7UIXB5aRxg5dSWalNeknFKeAqULIELhR_TbEPzQ0h8Mr54RbHftHy3_gGui5202P8t6iKUYhzMffpT5vJtnQPO\/s1600\/bluejam.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"422\" data-original-width=\"441\" height=\"382\" shadow=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhL_jB72u0ZUlixLHAQ0JxHdyV0Kxoo9d2VE2Nc9BVY8UTcVg1apD7elp7UIXB5aRxg5dSWalNeknFKeAqULIELhR_TbEPzQ0h8Mr54RbHftHy3_gGui5202P8t6iKUYhzMffpT5vJtnQPO\/s400\/bluejam.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003ESince his last appearance on the station on Boxing Day 1994, there had been an open invitation of sorts for Chris Morris to do some more work for Radio 1.\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003EThe following two years had been taken up with work on \u003Cb\u003EBrass Eye\u003C\/b\u003E, a six-part television series for Channel 4 that took his concepts of spoofing hoaxing news and current affairs to their logical conclusion, presenting a series of hard-hitting documentaries based around entirely fictitious subjects. \u003Cb\u003EBrass Eye\u003C\/b\u003E was nothing if not provocative television, operating on a far more powerful level than practically any other comedy show ever transmitted, and an incident in which a hoax over the fabricated recreational drug ‘cake’ had s\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003Epiralled out of control, and found itself the subject of a parliamentary discussion, caused enough concern within Channel 4 for station controller Michael Grade to postpone the series from its intended transmission while he verified whether or not it had transgressed broadcasting guidelines.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBrass Eye\u003C\/b\u003E did indeed resurface, albeit in a substantially edited form, running from 29th January to 5th March 1997. Even in this slightly tamed incarnation the series was still strong stuff, but by this point the months of setbacks had taken their toll and Morris was thoroughly fed up with \u003Cb\u003EBrass Eye\u003C\/b\u003E and keen to move on to something new. Rumours of a forthcoming new radio series had begun to circulate while \u003Cb\u003EBrass Eye\u003C\/b\u003E was still airing, and over the summer of 1997 Morris recorded a pilot for Radio 1 under the working title \u003Cb\u003EPlankton Jam\u003C\/b\u003E. It is perhaps telling that while the subsequent rash of inferior post-\u003Cb\u003EBrass Eye\u003C\/b\u003E emulators were still little more than vague proposals, the man who inspired it all was making moves to distance himself completely from ‘news parody’.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBlue Jam\u003C\/b\u003E, as the new Radio 1 series would eventually be renamed, did not even start out as a comedy show. Morris, who had always appreciated the woozy world of late-night radio where laid-back music tracks are linked by presenters talking in hushed tones that give a sense of the isolation of broadcasting from a largely empty building in the middle of the night, originally intended to create a more experimental take on this sort of show, a \u003Ci\u003E“3am lug lube”\u003C\/i\u003E with an appropriate musical backdrop behind \u003Ci\u003E“first person stories that slowly went off the rails, from the point of view of the presenter”\u003C\/i\u003E. While this would almost certainly have been diverting listening, it is interesting to ponder on whether or not they would actually have constituted ‘comedy’ as such; in effect, it would only have been a slightly exaggerated and distorted version of what could be found elsewhere on the radio dial at that time of night[1].\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003EAs work on the show progressed, sketch material began to find its way in through a somewhat roundabout route. According to Morris, the original concept of first person narratives evolved into \u003Ci\u003E“framing those narratives as ‘found sound’ as well, like bits of documentary actuality, and then dramatising bits of all of the scenarios”\u003C\/i\u003E. This effectively grew out of a mocked-up ‘fly on the wall’ documentary in the pilot about a doctor who treated his patients with kisses and other displays of affection; this was considered by all who heard it to be the most effective item by far, occasioning a change of direction and a move towards outright sketch material with no DJ element. The doctor himself, caught up in increasingly bizarre scenarios but remaining unflappably by-the-book throughout, would go on to become the most heavily recurring character in the show.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBlue Jam\u003C\/b\u003E was quite unlike anything that had been heard before in the name of radio comedy. The familiar presentational style, fabricated news stories and love of subverting pop music were all gone, replaced by a hazy montage of music over which fragments of monologue and conversation, alternately whimsical and disturbing, drifted in and out seemingly at random. The word ‘dreamlike’ has often been used to describe \u003Cb\u003EBlue Jam\u003C\/b\u003E – and indeed an early pre-series trailer featured references to 'The 1FM Dreamline' – but not in the traditional sense. Instead, \u003Cb\u003EBlue Jam\u003C\/b\u003E effectively evokes the disquieting, half-formed thoughts that pass through the semi-conscious mind in the early hours of the morning[2]. Although many have suggested that the nightmarish, otherworldly ambience of \u003Cb\u003EBlue Jam\u003C\/b\u003E was influenced by the effects of hallucinogenic drugs, the reality of the situation is far more mundane and unpretentious. The original press release for the series included a list of the stylistic cues that had informed the show, which included Vivian Stanshall’s long-running Radio 1 tales of life at \u003Cb\u003ERawlinson End\u003C\/b\u003E, the ambient dance music act The KLF, and the effects of influenza, alongside the expected world of late-night radio; all indicative of a blurry and indistinct state, but one that is reached naturally rather than through any kind of chemical stimulation. \u003Cb\u003EBlue Jam\u003C\/b\u003E was more effective in creating its own abstract ambience than any boring slab of drug-fuelled meandering could ever hope to be.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003EThe first run of six hour-long instalments of \u003Cb\u003EBlue Jam\u003C\/b\u003E went out on Radio 1 at midnight on Friday mornings, during November and December 1997. The most immediately striking feature, not to mention the most important in terms of setting the required tone, was the music. On a simplistic level, the shows could be divided down into the established ‘music show’ format, interspersing speech material with tracks played in full. However, the speech material was surrounded by looped sections of music tracks, which flowed in and out of the longer selections in one long pulsating soundtrack that ebbed and flowed with the mood of the material; so neat and seamless that it was difficult to determine where the music and comedy ended and started. This soundtrack was made up of excerpts from a selection of music tracks that were markedly diverse yet also strangely aligned, ranging from ambient dance music to spectral ballads, 1960s European pop numbers, and even a scratchy old blues record that claimed to be \u003Ci\u003E“dreamin’ ‘bout a reefer five feet long”\u003C\/i\u003E. The KLF, Brigitte Bardot, Bjork, David Byrne, The Chemical Brothers, Stereolab, The Cardigans, Sly And The Family Stone, The Beach Boys, Beck and even the middle-of-the-road duo The Alessi Brothers were just a handful of the artists that found themselves absorbed into the first series of \u003Cb\u003EBlue Jam\u003C\/b\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003EEach edition of \u003Cb\u003EBlue Jam\u003C\/b\u003E opened and closed with a warped approximation of ‘beat’ poetry, conjuring up surreal juxtapositions and disturbing imagery and delivered in an obscure patois, conveying a feeling of distorted reality with a bleakly comic twist. Each edition also contained a lengthy monologue delivered by Morris, and written jointly with Robert Katz. These had their roots in ‘Temporary Open Space’, Katz’s contributions to Morris’ Greater London Radio shows (indeed, some of the monologues were adapted from earlier ‘Temporary Open Space’ pieces); these monologues probably give the clearest indication of what Morris had originally intended for \u003Cb\u003EBlue Jam\u003C\/b\u003E. In the eventual transmitted shows they were surrounded by shorter sketches, written variously by Morris, Peter Baynham, David Quantick, Jane Bussmann, Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews, and performed by a regular cast that included David Cann, Amelia Bulmore, Julia Davis, Kevin Eldon, Mark Heap, and on occasion Sally Phillips, Lewis MacLeod, Melanie Hudson and Phil Cornwell.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003EThe sketch structure was to say the least unconventional, lacking deliberate start and end points (it was not unusual for a sketch to ‘end’ simply by fading into the distance on an echoed word), and divided between dialogue, monologue and a quasi-documentary approach. Twistedly humorous concepts introduced to listeners over the course of Blue Jam included an American couple who enter their baby in vicious fighting contests, a landlord who persuades his tenants to leave by slicing imperceptible slivers of skin from their feet as they sleep, a four year old girl with a secret double life as a ruthless gangland killer, a disease nicknamed “The Gush” that causes porn stars to literally ejaculate themselves to death, and an eyewitness account of a man who, lacking an available high window to throw himself out of, simply opted to commit suicide by repeatedly jumping from a first floor window.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003EWhile certainly highly amusing, such sketches have given rise to a belief that Blue Jam concerned itself solely with bleak humour based around shock tactic themes. This could not be further from the truth; the majority of sketches featured in the series are merely surreal, disorientating whimsy that are as light as the darker material is disturbing. Memorable examples included an angry man in search of the “owner” of the birds that annoyed him with their dawn chorus, an agency that hires out thick people to annoy customer service staff, a plot to joyride Professor Stephen Hawking around a racetrack, and David Bowie’s little-known side career as a relationship guidance counsellor. Meanwhile, Morris’ old standby of cutting and pasting of recorded speech resurfaced in a mangling of Radio 1’s Newsbeat (\u003Ci\u003E“police in Northumberland have sex with schoolgirls, and it’s all legal”\u003C\/i\u003E), while an unsavoury backwards message was discovered in Elton John’s tribute to Diana, Princess Of Wales, \u003Cb\u003ECandle In The Wind ‘97\u003C\/b\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003EThe latter item, along with an interview with royal biographer Andrew Morton – quizzed on his attitude to non-existent internet-based games based on the crash, and how he would feel if a signed copy of his book was presented to Princes William and Harry by a Diana lookalike – formed part of an extraordinary run of material spread throughout the first run of \u003Cb\u003EBlue Jam\u003C\/b\u003E, inspired by the outpourings of emotion that had followed Diana’s death. At no point was this material ever in any way cruel or insensitive about the situation itself, nor indeed about the people who felt affected by the tragedy; it simply reflected the feelings of someone who, like many others, had grown tired of the disproportionate public displays of grief, and the attendant media hysteria and hypocrisy, and their apparent refusal to abate even some months later. \u003Cb\u003EBlue Jam\u003C\/b\u003E suffered from very little interference or censorship throughout its existence, but an item that was originally planned for the last show of the first series pushed Radio 1’s tolerance too far.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003EAround fifteen minutes into the original edit of show six, the following re-edit of the Archbishop Of Canterbury’s sermon from Diana’s memorial service appeared:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E“We give thanks to God for those maimed through the evil of Mother Theresa, whose death we treasure. We pray for those most closely affected by her death, among them Trevor the sheep. Lord, we thank you for the precious gift of the sick, the maimed, and all whose lives are damaged, and for the strength we draw from all who are weak, poor and powerless, in this country and throughout the world. Lord, we commend to you Elizabeth, our Queen, whose death may serve the common good. We give thanks above all for her readiness to identify with God almighty, and for the way she gave sauce to so many people. Her mother, her brother, Dodi Fayed, and many, many, many more. We pray for the Royal Family as they discharge their members in Trevor Rhys Jones. Give them AIDS. Lord of landmines, hear our prayer. And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three… but the greatest of these is tortoise”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003EMorris was aware that this was likely to be problematic, and to that end recorded a deliberately obscene ‘Doctor’ sketch containing libel, blasphemy and an intentionally unsavoury remark about Diana, which was never seriously intended for broadcast (and not particularly funny either) and could be excised as a bargaining counter to argue for the Archbishop edit to remain uncut. Radio 1 seemed happy with this; the contentious sketch was duly removed from show four (which ran correspondingly short as result, with an extra music track added after the outro to make up the time[3]), and the full edit was cleared for broadcast as part of show six. However, when the sequence actually went to air, Radio 1’s duty manager insisted that the episode should be faded out and replaced for the rest of its duration with a repeat of show one. It is reputed that the engineer charged with the task of swapping the broadcast was a fan of the show and deliberately took his time, resulting in the offending item going out pretty much in its entirety, with only a single line of inoffensive material left unbroadcast. Quite why this came about is uncertain. Some of those who worked on the show claim that the sketch was mistaken for the excised ‘Doctor’ sketch by the inattentive duty manager, and faded out for that reason, while Radio 1 claimed at the time that they had changed their minds over the suitability of the Archbishop edit and had requested an alternate edit that never arrived[4].\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003EWhatever the circumstances, Radio 1 subsequently became very unhappy about the item. When Morris tried to get the full version of show six broadcast, still with 45 minutes of unheard material, as part of a repeat run early in 1998, Radio 1 refused and in the absence of an alternate edit put out show one – its fourth airing in three months – in its place. Eventually, when it became clear that they were not prepared to give way, Morris relented and provided an edited version, which went out as the first of a new six-show run between March and May 1998 .\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003EBy now, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBlue Jam\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394;\"\u003E was gaining both critical approval – it won the Sony Gold award for Best Radio Comedy for two consecutive years – and a small, but intensely loyal, audience. A third set of six shows running between January and February 1999 showed some signs of fatigue, particularly in the choices of music, but the material was generally of the same exceptionally high quality, and there could be little doubt that \u003Cb\u003EBlue Jam\u003C\/b\u003E was an experiment that had succeeded beyond expectations.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg6SLCCn0AS7jZZf4DretZjkd3B3nWM42SvvQ5mrsyS-SoJpL7lkUSsgBeovw-AiExbyfNqOOyrx6gkDfuOq3OFOc9a9lzHMrZqlw_trEk2eGLKF9di-dIUSHKH7gsqkAXyMxLZmhT4Dxha\/s1600\/bluejam2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"363\" data-original-width=\"611\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg6SLCCn0AS7jZZf4DretZjkd3B3nWM42SvvQ5mrsyS-SoJpL7lkUSsgBeovw-AiExbyfNqOOyrx6gkDfuOq3OFOc9a9lzHMrZqlw_trEk2eGLKF9di-dIUSHKH7gsqkAXyMxLZmhT4Dxha\/s400\/bluejam2.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;\"\u003E[1] In fact, it may well have ended up somewhat reminiscent of Mark Radcliffe’s Radio 1 show \u003Cb\u003EOut On Blue Six,\u003C\/b\u003E which achieved a similar detached ambience through judicious manipulation of the traditional music radio format with laid-back music and surreal interjections. Morris professes to have enjoyed \u003Cb\u003EOut On Blue Six\u003C\/b\u003E greatly.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;\"\u003E[2] Morris reinforced this point to me when he claimed that \u003Ci\u003E“the material generally came from a sense of wanting to make things hypnotic and unignorable”\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;\"\u003E[3] This was \u003Cb\u003EBest Bit\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;by Beth Orton; despite assumptions to the contrary, this actually appears on the broadcast master of the episode.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;\"\u003E[4] More confusingly still, Radio 1 denied all knowledge of the incident to several listeners who called in during the broadcast to ask what was going on. Complicating matters still further, Radio 1’s then-Controller Matthew Bannister claimed in BBC Radio 4 Extra’s Morris retrospective \u003Cb\u003ERaw Meat Radio\u003C\/b\u003E in 2014 that the entire incident had never happened and that all supposed off-air recordings were a hoax perpetrated by a fan. All I can say is that, hand on heart, my off-air recording is genuine. Numerous listeners will attest that this actually happened and it was reported on by a couple of newspapers at the time. Matthew Bannister politely declined to be interviewed for \u003Cb\u003EFun At One\u003C\/b\u003E, feeling not unreasonably that he had expressed his point of view definitively on several previous occasions.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;\"\u003E[5] The item was first heard in full as part of a Blue Jam ‘Live’ event at the Battersea Arts Centre in 1998. A video version, prepared for the TV transfer jam but not actually used in the series, was later made available at www.bishopslips.com – this effectively comprised the 22nd track of the \u003Cb\u003EBlue Jam\u003C\/b\u003E compilation CD released by Warp in 2000. It was also included on the limited edition \u003Cb\u003EBlue Jam Extras\u003C\/b\u003E CD.\n\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-small;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Chr style=\"background: rgb(127, 0, 0); color: #7f0000; height: 2px; width: 90%;\" \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjJEU04ADH34TqPo2HJ_ZKZ_tfnGNganzzflVuz3sQrdVZ0wrCxAxEeyRB4EMyFPSscIyLVOQ2wZB-eweQpQ_Pk_yFuDeUJu-I8KK7oTlgagJwX_KYLtd-zgFCRHZYlxBIz76znzy6LkN7g\/s1600\/funatonecover-copy.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"815\" data-original-width=\"540\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjJEU04ADH34TqPo2HJ_ZKZ_tfnGNganzzflVuz3sQrdVZ0wrCxAxEeyRB4EMyFPSscIyLVOQ2wZB-eweQpQ_Pk_yFuDeUJu-I8KK7oTlgagJwX_KYLtd-zgFCRHZYlxBIz76znzy6LkN7g\/s200\/funatonecover-copy.jpg\" width=\"132\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EThis is an abridged excerpt from \u003Cb\u003EFun At One - The Story Of Comedy At BBC Radio 1\u003C\/b\u003E, which is available in paperback \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/tim-worthington\/fun-at-one-the-story-of-comedy-at-radio-1\/paperback\/product-20383645.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E or from the Kindle Store \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Fun-At-One-Story-Comedy-ebook\/dp\/B01N8ST07J\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\n\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/6850354402103051828"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/6850354402103051828"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/e-arth-welcome-in-blue-jam.html","title":"E Arth Welcome... In Blue Jam"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhL_jB72u0ZUlixLHAQ0JxHdyV0Kxoo9d2VE2Nc9BVY8UTcVg1apD7elp7UIXB5aRxg5dSWalNeknFKeAqULIELhR_TbEPzQ0h8Mr54RbHftHy3_gGui5202P8t6iKUYhzMffpT5vJtnQPO\/s72-c\/bluejam.png","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900616647854839749.post-2216778340308170707"},"published":{"$t":"2017-06-06T20:41:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-17T11:48:49.506+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"andrew collins"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"chris morris"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"david quantick"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kenny everett"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lee \u0026 herring"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mark radcliffe"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"orbiter x"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"peter cook"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"radio 3"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"radio that time forgot"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rawlinson end"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"stuart maconie"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the mary whitehouse experience"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Twelve Radio Programmes That Need To Be Given A Proper Release"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EAmazingly, there are still some well-known - or at least well-regarded - radio programmes that are not available to buy either on CD or as downloads. Here are twelve that I think deserve a wider audience...\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cb\u003E \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThe Psychedelic Spy (BBC Radio 4, 1990)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgWkeZ2mrw5vNzgVZd3vzIBPPikMwya-Ik4nn5d87orlt1lXDRC7ujAfjDkfK_7lg24dT0zvy8r7Ry8sWsB7I0xCQVLpmFOdQ5HdcwIGnTLlHLpkGrTy401v19ehxCmv-BzXGs7olFrDcxg\/s1600\/psychspy.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"285\" data-original-width=\"380\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgWkeZ2mrw5vNzgVZd3vzIBPPikMwya-Ik4nn5d87orlt1lXDRC7ujAfjDkfK_7lg24dT0zvy8r7Ry8sWsB7I0xCQVLpmFOdQ5HdcwIGnTLlHLpkGrTy401v19ehxCmv-BzXGs7olFrDcxg\/s400\/psychspy.png\" title=\"The Psychedelic Spy (BBC Radio 4, 1990)\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWriter Andrew Rissik was responsible for this witty, action-packed pastiche of every last military-jacketed secret agent from lurid late sixties pulp paperbacks and equally lurid mind-hurting lava lamp-drenched late sixties post-Bond cinematic knock-offs, following reluctant globetrotting spy Billy Hindle as he wrestles with the end of the sixties - Rissik deliberately set it in 1968 as \u003Ci\u003E\"by then the whole thing had turned sour\"\u003C\/i\u003E - and the constant demands of his superiors to take on 'just one last job'. The impressive cast includes such pop art-hued espionage drama veterans as James Aubrey, Joanna Lumley, Gerald Harper and Ed Bishop. \u003Cb\u003EThe Psychedelic Spy\u003C\/b\u003E occasionally shows up on Radio 4 Extra, but really is crying out for a proper release in suitable pastiche packaging.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EBlack Cinderella Two Goes East, Or Confessions Of A Glass Slipper Tryer-Onner (BBC Radio 2, 1978)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhi-lcnQLBJJP43cV5AtOlFWpLZXpMBEO1u73JI-tPp0Abf5fOUD82fQwxv1_sRpQB83EWuG0n8yQ4o9jqvmIkT7pfn0owLVmno0ZlQ0odvb-Kw4vK5WRwUNpJvI-t1iVdVoP6Pf_8hXM5f\/s1600\/bc2ge.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"892\" data-original-width=\"651\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhi-lcnQLBJJP43cV5AtOlFWpLZXpMBEO1u73JI-tPp0Abf5fOUD82fQwxv1_sRpQB83EWuG0n8yQ4o9jqvmIkT7pfn0owLVmno0ZlQ0odvb-Kw4vK5WRwUNpJvI-t1iVdVoP6Pf_8hXM5f\/s400\/bc2ge.png\" title=\"Peter Cook in Black Cinderella 2 Goes East (BBC Radio 2, 1978)\" width=\"290\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA decidedly non-family friendly pantomime as the comedy stars of the sixties - Peter Cook, John Cleese, David Hatch, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Jo Kendall - join forces with their late seventies counterparts Douglas Adams, John Lloyd, Clive Anderson and Rory McGrath for a half-satirical half-silly sendup of standard issue oh-no-he-isn't clichés with a side order of sarcastic comment about rampant strike-mania. Also making slightly more incongruous appearances are wartime radio laughtermaker Richard Murdoch, \u003Cb\u003ERagtime\u003C\/b\u003E presenter Maggie Henderson, and self-mocking real-life Lib Dem MP - for about another five minutes - John Pardoe. The overall effect is essentially an \u003Cb\u003EI'm Sorry I'll Read That Again\u003C\/b\u003E sketch run nightmarishly beyond control, which is every bit as fantastic as that sounds. \u003Cb\u003EBlack Cinderella Two Goes East\u003C\/b\u003E is widely circulated amongst collectors, but otherwise is a noticeable omission from the available works of certain performers whose every last other recorded moment has been repackaged again and again and again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThe Chris Morris Music Show (BBC Radio 1, 1994)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjo60QmonOmU-IcAlcTJ_67ZQViV7LyXOgRbUDKVGgAZPCeXM-rbKUtNXSCAudSDtMYTe5zVsK5XsJdFR5KS6C5dIBHkk3Ew-h-aDhQWsxJLD3_ghazKgv12fZ8ZEdFoSVMj91i-Nnmeunc\/s1600\/cmms.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"354\" data-original-width=\"455\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjo60QmonOmU-IcAlcTJ_67ZQViV7LyXOgRbUDKVGgAZPCeXM-rbKUtNXSCAudSDtMYTe5zVsK5XsJdFR5KS6C5dIBHkk3Ew-h-aDhQWsxJLD3_ghazKgv12fZ8ZEdFoSVMj91i-Nnmeunc\/s400\/cmms.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nStill seeing himself as very much a pop radio DJ rather than a television comedian, Chris Morris followed the success of \u003Cb\u003EThe Day Today\u003C\/b\u003E with a high-profile, much-coveted and long-promised slot on Radio 1. What followed can best be described as barely controlled mayhem, with a suspension partway through the run and the show pulled off air shortly before broadcast on more than one occasion; and yet every single second of it was achingly, genuinely side-splittingly funny. And of course you can find the full story of that in my book \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/gb\/en\/shop\/tim-worthington\/fun-at-one-the-story-of-comedy-at-radio-1\/paperback\/product-20383645.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFun At One - The Story Of Comedy At BBC Radio 1\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E. From caustic tearing apart of the mechanics of journalism and surreally humiliating celebrity interviews to simply making fun of records he actually \u003Cu\u003Eliked\u003C\/u\u003E, Chris Morris hit Radio 1 like nothing before and arguably nothing after it. Inevitably his reign of terror (or, as he preferred, 'playing records and shouting') didn't last very long - as much because of fresh television offers as any nervousness over the content - but it disappeared as quietly as it arrived loudly; a sole promised BBC Radio Collection compilation, \u003Cb\u003ENewshound From Hell\u003C\/b\u003E, ran into clearance problems and was never released. Possibly the single most important and influential radio comedy show of the nineties, and you can't buy a single second of it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ELee \u0026amp; Herring (BBC Radio 1, 1994-95)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi7sys_MGUmkWeCLo7BWIeXh5B0S6XBpwIzaBfm9kr3a3p_9G5qWeZfLK_EZClqnl3p2DPqPD6qh9o-zjEzq44XjDNWGLxz15U-N8GmDL9SgptfnTFZ4aFae1E6m6_IehiXsl9FQxcIIc57\/s1600\/lhtotp.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"424\" data-original-width=\"622\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi7sys_MGUmkWeCLo7BWIeXh5B0S6XBpwIzaBfm9kr3a3p_9G5qWeZfLK_EZClqnl3p2DPqPD6qh9o-zjEzq44XjDNWGLxz15U-N8GmDL9SgptfnTFZ4aFae1E6m6_IehiXsl9FQxcIIc57\/s400\/lhtotp.png\" title=\"Stewart Lee and Richard Herring presenting Top Of The Pops.\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhile not quite as problematic as their old comedy cohort Chris Morris, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring also enjoyed a significantly longer stint as 'proper' Radio 1 DJs, their popularity underlined by their briefly joining the roster of \u003Cb\u003ETop Of The Pops\u003C\/b\u003E presenters. In addition to playing weird and wonderful records that may well have never been heard on any other radio show ever, they also spent their time trying out new comic ideas and encouraging the audience to indulge in situationist pranks such as paying to advertise their show in newsagents' windows; indeed, many of their most famous characters and routines including the lists of ridiculous pun sitcom titles, Ian News, Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Harris and The Fake Rod Hull made their first appearances here. Yet despite the rabidly obsessive nature of their still considerable fanbase, little of the Radio 1 shows has been heard from that day to this. A couple of sketches escaped as extras on the \u003Cb\u003EFist Of Fun\u003C\/b\u003E DVDs, but apart from that, nothing. There's a couple of good compilations in them at least. And I said good compilations, not those rubbish ones Radio 1 did after they left. Incidentally, those compilations are covered along with the actual proper shows in \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/gb\/en\/shop\/tim-worthington\/fun-at-one-the-story-of-comedy-at-radio-1\/paperback\/product-20383645.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFun At One\u003C\/a\u003E...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ERoom 101 (BBC Radio 5, 1992-94)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiRmWTsJBXvdDUhzSciKJ30PrArlPUG5t-5d5N4GNegydwZ4bCt_b-_S12hBJh-lJuSZc6kXzyw4vUJPj58jgfzU_3ro4J1wRpaFN5p4Mll1Rr6fZDefbuopknjX9a95JX6KwBd4bPuCTeA\/s1600\/room101.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"306\" data-original-width=\"471\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiRmWTsJBXvdDUhzSciKJ30PrArlPUG5t-5d5N4GNegydwZ4bCt_b-_S12hBJh-lJuSZc6kXzyw4vUJPj58jgfzU_3ro4J1wRpaFN5p4Mll1Rr6fZDefbuopknjX9a95JX6KwBd4bPuCTeA\/s400\/room101.png\" title=\"Nick Hancock and Danny Baker on Room 101.\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ERoom 101\u003C\/b\u003E was much better in the early Nick Hancock-presented days, but even better still in its original Nick Hancock-presented radio incarnation. With no audience and on the whole a more interesting selection of guests, they had to rely more on actual reasons and often hilarious anecdotage to get their choices in - and Hancock in turn had to argue harder to keep them out - and it was a far more esoteric and cerebral show than you might understandably expect. A handful of editions were repeated on Radio 1 and later on Radio 4 Extra, but most remain unheard from that day to this; the impressive roster of guests included Paul Merton, Jo Brand, Danny Baker, David Baddiel, Steve Punt, John Walters, Frank Skinner, Trevor And Simon and Donna McPhail. Clip clearance and the sheer number of choices that would prove 'problematic' post-Yewtree probably mean that compilations are the best we'll get, but if you've never heard of O! Punchinello, 'This Train Has Failed' or Golfiana, or indeed heard Danny Baker explaining why he hates Pete Sinfield of King Crimson's solo album so much, you'll probably agree that we need some.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EOrbiter X (BBC Light Programme, 1959)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhPoqrVmbJQg6Ul5xqCnGJl8hHKiL7OI-LJ0449z94U87pEjzRNi33jgNltrqJ22J0Nwv4QuRTgA7Fq8vslilvyjJMsauXgkfEWvE5HcIKZl3-t0LR86eUYxEBvq_M-B-39NWHrfVuPwEFr\/s1600\/orbiter1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"236\" data-original-width=\"300\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhPoqrVmbJQg6Ul5xqCnGJl8hHKiL7OI-LJ0449z94U87pEjzRNi33jgNltrqJ22J0Nwv4QuRTgA7Fq8vslilvyjJMsauXgkfEWvE5HcIKZl3-t0LR86eUYxEBvq_M-B-39NWHrfVuPwEFr\/s400\/orbiter1.jpg\" title=\"Orbiter X (BBC Light Programme, 1959)\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYou can read a lot more about this fantastic Cold War-allegorising tale of space station subterfuge \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/04\/orbiter-x.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E; what's surprising is that despite the enduring popularity of the long-running \u003Cb\u003EJourney Into Space\u003C\/b\u003E, the BBC have never really done very much with the various serials that followed in its wake, such as \u003Cb\u003EOrbiter X\u003C\/b\u003E, \u003Cb\u003EOrbit One Zero\u003C\/b\u003E, \u003Cb\u003EThe Lost Planet\u003C\/b\u003E and \u003Cb\u003ENicholas Quinn - Anonymous\u003C\/b\u003E. They have all spent far too long gathering cosmic dust and it would be nice to see them given the exposure and recognition they deserve. Preferably with booklets featuring rare photos and archive material.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EPatterson (BBC Radio 3, 1981)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEixmZZ-oFbvFI1aFxLP1fe2OGHWUQcVzpOVLlhEr-YXVJzsTsnWvJa_dDnsqybSiUkwfkUC-QO7tkxIVbyiFQ2QZbi8lK75yEyX5zn_WlFfUFdbiB3ZJo7PmxsLlPPM0RnhzOmDR7nl7J_3\/s1600\/8_pxJOa5.jpg+large.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1564\" data-original-width=\"1024\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEixmZZ-oFbvFI1aFxLP1fe2OGHWUQcVzpOVLlhEr-YXVJzsTsnWvJa_dDnsqybSiUkwfkUC-QO7tkxIVbyiFQ2QZbi8lK75yEyX5zn_WlFfUFdbiB3ZJo7PmxsLlPPM0RnhzOmDR7nl7J_3\/s400\/8_pxJOa5.jpg+large.jpg\" title=\"Patterson (BBC Radio 3, 1981)\" width=\"261\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRadio 3 went through a very odd phase of trying to score a hit highbrow sitcom in the eighties, including such angular and intellectual takes on the genre as \u003Cb\u003ESuch Rotten Luck\u003C\/b\u003E and \u003Cb\u003EBlood And Bruises\u003C\/b\u003E; the closest they came to scoring an actual success with audiences and critics alike was with the genuinely brilliant \u003Cb\u003EPatterson\u003C\/b\u003E. Written by Malcolm Bradbury and Christopher Bigsby - not exactly your average sitcom scriptwriter pairing - the series was a loose thematic follow-on from the former's celebrated novel \u003Cb\u003EThe History Man\u003C\/b\u003E, and followed hapless University lecturer Andrew Patterson through a chain of absurdist happenings on campus; as you are probably imagining, it does bear some strong - though apparently genuinely coincidental - similarities to \u003Cb\u003EA Very Peculiar Practice\u003C\/b\u003E. Repeated once by Radio 2 in a new Radio 2-friendly re-edit, it still inspires a significant online following, which makes its failure to resurface all the more like Prof. Misty has been put in charge of remembering it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThe Mary Whitehouse Experience (BBC Radio 1, 1989-90)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg0VZqicbr7NY2TqFXSdY4fprzxmreGbkebjwbJWSwMQyvc3djWc-GuK-0X4pTfY0EmYIFVsbqkZCUCMgQAGKj_4hl6WY5R9Ki6qlQBDIQz7zuWbf-YRoFIIJxXhPoOjtNbY_723mOwOYAf\/s1600\/mwegroup.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"675\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg0VZqicbr7NY2TqFXSdY4fprzxmreGbkebjwbJWSwMQyvc3djWc-GuK-0X4pTfY0EmYIFVsbqkZCUCMgQAGKj_4hl6WY5R9Ki6qlQBDIQz7zuWbf-YRoFIIJxXhPoOjtNbY_723mOwOYAf\/s400\/mwegroup.jpg\" title=\"The Mary Whitehouse Experience (BBC Radio 1, 1989-90)\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nStaggeringly, apart from \u003Cb\u003EThe Mary Whitehouse Experience Encyclopedia\u003C\/b\u003E and a couple of bits on individual live videos (oh, and \u003Cb\u003EMinutes Of The Parish Council Meeting\u003C\/b\u003E, if you insist), nothing from \u003Cu\u003Eany\u003C\/u\u003E incarnation of The Mary Whitehouse Experience has ever been made commercially available. This is astonishing when you consider both how popular and influential it was; rumours have long flown around that this was in fact down to one of the team blocking it, but while I was researching \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/gb\/en\/shop\/tim-worthington\/fun-at-one-the-story-of-comedy-at-radio-1\/paperback\/product-20383645.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFun At One\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E all four confirmed to me that this wasn't the case (as, for that matter, did Mark Thomas, Jo Brand and one of Skint Video) so we can discount that right now. A couple of people associated with the show indicated that the issue had been raised with BBC Worldwide who felt that it was 'too topical', which if true indicates that nobody working there had ever actually heard any of it. Newman, Baddiel, Punt and Dennis are all still hugely successful - more so than ever in some cases - and enough time has elapsed for the original long-sleeve-t-shirt-sporting listeners to become genuinely nostalgic for it, so why isn't any of it available to buy? Conclusion: Ken Dodd \u003Cu\u003EIs\u003C\/u\u003E Innocent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ECollins And Maconie's Hit Parade (BBC Radio 1, 1994-97)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjsCp-IM-qZz14rPD5bKQ9ZNk0jmNgbmopkYQ0LfIKRxayfEI0BqDz7wZoURPbF4FQcqclokhCKB9fECAB4WahxWbqjBMRnBFxdzlrrpPh38IGWEWQdQgxprleJhA94sBj4xRARsO-HZume\/s1600\/hitparade.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"360\" data-original-width=\"640\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjsCp-IM-qZz14rPD5bKQ9ZNk0jmNgbmopkYQ0LfIKRxayfEI0BqDz7wZoURPbF4FQcqclokhCKB9fECAB4WahxWbqjBMRnBFxdzlrrpPh38IGWEWQdQgxprleJhA94sBj4xRARsO-HZume\/s400\/hitparade.jpg\" title=\"Stuart Maconie and Andrew Collins in Collins And Maconie's Hit Parade (BBC Radio 1, 1994-97)\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAndrew Collins and Stuart Maconie - and resident weekly 'guest' David Quantick - were Radio 1's in-house acerbic music critics with a proper music show during some very interesting times for pop music, which amongst many highlights saw them delivering arguably the definitive take on the Blur\/Oasis chart battle, and reacting live to Jarvis Cocker's stage invasion at the Brit Awards. There were plenty of discussions worth revisiting, numerous 'guset critics' who have gone on to enjoy greater prominence, and the weekly 'Quantick's World' rants, which as good as deserve an entire release on their own; not that Morrissey or Paul Weller would be too happy about that, mind. There are tons of contributions to other shows worth considering too, including their 'Eyewitness Reports' for \u003Cb\u003EThe Evening Session\u003C\/b\u003E, and the absurd bit of 'walking across the BBC' business they did when guest-hosting the following show. All of which, incidentally, is covered in \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/gb\/en\/shop\/tim-worthington\/fun-at-one-the-story-of-comedy-at-radio-1\/paperback\/product-20383645.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ea certain book\u003C\/a\u003E...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThe Graveyard Shift (BBC Radio 1, 1993-97)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhA2mLw3-9ha-NUGVH4mOE5KugSwdOOjvw74qkyWYStveNDgQfgqoSlP-fzWrvnFD8Jz-H6_IilnyZIXow9iVL85GPjciKf1PFxJDkZLnCoY1uMUe01mhvhdOOr5f6GUEl0N3DuScfQlzAU\/s1600\/Radcliffe-Riley.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"290\" data-original-width=\"350\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhA2mLw3-9ha-NUGVH4mOE5KugSwdOOjvw74qkyWYStveNDgQfgqoSlP-fzWrvnFD8Jz-H6_IilnyZIXow9iVL85GPjciKf1PFxJDkZLnCoY1uMUe01mhvhdOOr5f6GUEl0N3DuScfQlzAU\/s400\/Radcliffe-Riley.jpg\" title=\"Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley on The Graveyard Shift (BBC Radio 1, 1993-97)\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIf one show exemplified Radio 1's superb and much-needed early nineties reinvention, it was the late-night shenanigans of Mark Radcliffe, Marc Riley and their various friends, wellwishers and hangers-on. Promising \u003Ci\u003E\"poetry, comedy, live music and a boy called Lard\"\u003C\/i\u003E, it delivered all of this and more, day in day out, with the playlist of promising indie singles - effectively an unofficial testing ground for what might work on daytime radio, and a few major mid-nineties hits got their first play here - interspersed with lengthy and freewheeling chats on any given subject from whether \u003Cb\u003ELady Chatterley's Lover\u003C\/b\u003E needed 'spicing up' to an argument over what prog rock track was used as the theme music for \u003Cb\u003EWeekend World\u003C\/b\u003E, with interjections from comedians and critics, notably Andrew Collins' diary readings, Stuart Maconie's 'veritable smorgasbord', Mark Kermode's Cult Film Corner and John Shuttleworth's rambling updates on his promising musical career. Oh and not forgetting 'Slippers, Please!'. Just imagine if there was \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/gb\/en\/shop\/tim-worthington\/fun-at-one-the-story-of-comedy-at-radio-1\/paperback\/product-20383645.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ea book covering all of this\u003C\/a\u003E. A CD compilation of some of the regular sketches was released at the time, but we really could do with something more representative of the shu-, which after all was always full of loads of quality items. And him, Boy Lard.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EKremmen Of The Star Corps (Capital Radio, 1976-80)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhUqdmg_qRhhzyFQ1Psvsn8SRpQhWUz-rFBAYZ2JGBGRcGwP5wx2CQPDkqE7Xh2Z47z9e1tCjAFxaAOzfcinvu0kuLbmSc2G2lZdVmr91GVzf9fuRLjDL3KvK3JL4gTwFd_Y1DkeCKScRrO\/s1600\/kremmenga.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"500\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhUqdmg_qRhhzyFQ1Psvsn8SRpQhWUz-rFBAYZ2JGBGRcGwP5wx2CQPDkqE7Xh2Z47z9e1tCjAFxaAOzfcinvu0kuLbmSc2G2lZdVmr91GVzf9fuRLjDL3KvK3JL4gTwFd_Y1DkeCKScRrO\/s400\/kremmenga.jpg\" title=\"Captain Kremmen - The Greatest Adventure Yet by Kenny Everett\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOne of the few commercial radio shows that would ever warrant a commercial release, Kenny Everett recorded dozens upon dozens of episodes of tongue-in-cheek cliffhanging sci-fi serial adventures of Captain Elvis Brandenburg Kremmen for Capital Radio during the seventies, some of which were later adapted for the animated version in his ITV sketch show. In fact, Captain Kremmen was just one of several ideas Everett developed for a London-only audience that ended up attracting national attention, which just serves to underline what a true one-off genius he was. One full story was released as the \u003Cb\u003EThe Greatest Adventure Yet From Captain Kremmen\u003C\/b\u003E LP in 1979, and a couple of others escaped on Capital promo singles and prize giveaways, but surprisingly nobody seems to have thought of stringing the rest of them together in box set form yet. The Thargoids have probably drained the idea from our collective intelligence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ERawlinson End (BBC Radio 1, 1971-91)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhHtLxxeZfNbffEuxuUCLKme3rXk6woziI9U1NB7gcjCYYf9iLknmo7RTtTdpzyUaXZ3vPKsER84gSh04vanvUKeOeFTHxcXLC6Cg6blB6lY_N6oYoH-faEM8Yf4Ba3U1lwPJZBYKmr99s9\/s1600\/vivrawl.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"382\" data-original-width=\"596\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhHtLxxeZfNbffEuxuUCLKme3rXk6woziI9U1NB7gcjCYYf9iLknmo7RTtTdpzyUaXZ3vPKsER84gSh04vanvUKeOeFTHxcXLC6Cg6blB6lY_N6oYoH-faEM8Yf4Ba3U1lwPJZBYKmr99s9\/s400\/vivrawl.png\" title=\"Vivian Stanshall\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEnglish as tuppence, changing and changeless as canal water, nestling in green nowhere, Viv Stanshall's tales of life - or at least what passed for it - in and around Rawlinson End were one of the most popular features of John Peel's show, and used to provoke a flood of calls and letters asking if they were available to buy. And yet, one single album of rearranged and rerecorded early episodes aside, they never have been. The original unexpurgated exploits of Sir Henry, Aunt Florrie and unwilling company should be held up as a triumph of the language to rank with Dickens, Wodehouse and Adams, but instead they are just sort of sat on a shelf somewhere like disregarded souvenirs from military service in some far flung corner of the Empire. Perfectly in keeping with Rawlinson End itself, maybe, but an entirely ridiculous situation. Mrs. E, we do know what we want and we want it now! And if you want to know more? \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/gb\/en\/shop\/tim-worthington\/fun-at-one-the-story-of-comedy-at-radio-1\/paperback\/product-20383645.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ENow read on, dot dot dot dot dot\u003C\/a\u003E...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Chr style=\"background: rgb(127, 0, 0); color: #7f0000; height: 2px; width: 90%;\" \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgaYZrOd7DFmrQPkvEkCFwX7mdaoBS3TLOEJ1jNR8njPvRFHCqoq2Gvy8DwrMTpnwFnM_9N32EM3Ff_fXq44OIO7AFdYv6XiPlYS95NNbEl3REtyc_3jibIRboJtHlP7n6HK1fiJdiTRXsA\/s1600\/funatonecover-copy.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"815\" data-original-width=\"540\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgaYZrOd7DFmrQPkvEkCFwX7mdaoBS3TLOEJ1jNR8njPvRFHCqoq2Gvy8DwrMTpnwFnM_9N32EM3Ff_fXq44OIO7AFdYv6XiPlYS95NNbEl3REtyc_3jibIRboJtHlP7n6HK1fiJdiTRXsA\/s200\/funatonecover-copy.jpg\" title=\"Fun At One - The Story Of Comedy At BBC Radio 1 by Tim Worthington\" width=\"132\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EAnd while we're all waiting, you can read more about Rawlinson End, Kenny Everett, Lee And Herring, Chris Morris, The Graveyard Shift and Collins And Maconie in \u003Cb\u003EFun At One - The Story Of Comedy At BBC Radio 1\u003C\/b\u003E, available in paperback \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/tim-worthington\/fun-at-one-the-story-of-comedy-at-radio-1\/paperback\/product-20383645.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E or from the Kindle Store \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Fun-At-One-Story-Comedy-ebook\/dp\/B01N8ST07J\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/2216778340308170707"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/2216778340308170707"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/2017\/06\/twelve-radio-programmes-that-need-to-be.html","title":"Twelve Radio Programmes That Need To Be Given A Proper Release"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgWkeZ2mrw5vNzgVZd3vzIBPPikMwya-Ik4nn5d87orlt1lXDRC7ujAfjDkfK_7lg24dT0zvy8r7Ry8sWsB7I0xCQVLpmFOdQ5HdcwIGnTLlHLpkGrTy401v19ehxCmv-BzXGs7olFrDcxg\/s72-c\/psychspy.png","height":"72","width":"72"}}]}});