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By: Stander on the Mountain » Blog Archive » BBC Radio

Stander on the Mountain » Blog Archive » BBC Radio — Wed, 24 May 2006 21:09:32 +0000

[...] This Guy has much more interesting things to say about it, but this 'phone in' show is friggin' hilarious!! [...]

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Sun, 14 May 2006 20:39:25 +0000

[...] (via Cosmic Variance) Posted by Paul in Religion and Superstition, TV and Radio (14/5/2006 at 9:38 pm) [...]

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 12 May 2006 12:12:20 +0000

Hi Clifford. It looks like I made a mistake, sorry for getting your hopes up.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Fri, 12 May 2006 07:54:50 +0000

Joe… Where did you say the older programme is? There’s nothing listenable under the link for the older episode. It is like the old days where the new epidose of a programme erases the old.

Can you find it?

-cvj

By: Gullible of Tunbridge Wells | Cosmic Variance

Gullible of Tunbridge Wells | Cosmic Variance — Fri, 12 May 2006 07:48:26 +0000

[...] Oddly enough, a huge number of people really thought that the utterly hilarious show Down the Line (see here), airing on Tuesdays at 11:00pm on the BBC’s Radio 4, was actually a real phone-in! Rather than seeing it as a wonderful spoof, parody, and commentary (which it clearly is), they thought it was a crass attempt by Radio 4 to broaden the scope of its programming. Angry of Tunbridge Wells got out the pen and paper to write a letter…… [...]

By: donncha

donncha — Fri, 12 May 2006 04:50:37 +0000

Uproar!

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1773143,00.html

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 11 May 2006 00:36:07 +0000

I’m just listening to it now, and it seems pretty clear that it was set up. There is no way you could get that many oddballs in a row.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Thu, 11 May 2006 00:22:40 +0000

Thanks Joe. That was (frustratingly) not always the policy in the past, and so I’m glad to hear that this is now the norm.

Cheers,

-cvj

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 11 May 2006 00:01:50 +0000

For what it’s worth, they archive the shows. Its a new show, so only 3 are listed on the left hand side. The BBC seem to be pretty good at keeping archives available.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Wed, 10 May 2006 20:37:27 +0000

Ah…yes…. the stillness…..

Brilliant.

Oh, gosh, just a mention of the dog cracks me up all over again….

-cvj