Return Of The Old Guys
The last time I saw the old guys was more than two years ago back at Queen Margaret Drive and I wrote about them on this blog. Tonight they were in our spanking new high definition television studio here at Pacific Quay. The "Old Guys" in question are, in fact, the central characters of a new situation comedy that is being made for BBC 1 and will be shown throughout the U.K. It's been interesting to see how the project has developed since I was in the audience for the original pilot. I enjoyed what I'd seen then but tonight's recording was twice as good and a great cast headed by Roger Lloyd Pack, Clive Swift, Jane Asher & Katherine Parkinson. I wont give away any plot details but there were some real laugh-out-loud moments of visual and verbal comedy. Oh and and just a wee bit of toilet humour too
Filing out with the rest of the studio audience tonight I was suddenly approached by a young woman.
"Are you Mister Zycinski?" she asked. This had the effect of making me feel like an old guy myself, but I guess I'm just surprised by anyone showing me respect these days. Anyway, the young woman turned out to be Amy MacBeath, a student on the new multi-media journalism course that's been launched at Caledonian University. She told me she was a fan of this blog and, of course, that's why she's getting a mention. Then, somehow the conversation turned to my decision to move to Inverness and I was just getting into my stride with my standard lecture on the virtues of the Highland Capital when she stopped me in my tracks.
"I'm actually from Inverness myself, " said Amy, "born and bred."
I should have recognised her accent but I was too busy listening to myself. Oh well, that's allowed when you get to my age.
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Dear Z:
I enjoy your Blog, you are gifted, it is clear.
Fact is I pretty much enjoy all of BBC Radio Scotland.
There is one problem, not insignificant.
This is not to cast aspersion upon your Web Master, but the site is driving me bonkers!!!!!!!!! Even worse than the Bush Administration.
For example, Get It On, Bryan is awesome and the listeners are brilliant, BUT I have tried to "Listen Again" for every show this past week and the little box tells me that every blasted one of them is "unavailable."
Z, I am a grandmother, of 6 decades plus one. I have listened to BBC since I was 4 years old on my dad's shortwave radio. Apparently, I also have an addictive personality or at least am "obsessive compulsive," but I like the music and the talk and BBC Radio Scotland in particular.
Please fix it. I know Alan, the web guy, does his best, please give him some help.
Oh, and don't mess with the schedule for a while. And where is Archie Fisher? And Book Cafe was a great daily happening when Tony Currie was doing Night Shift.
Thanks.
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invinciblegrammie
Thanks, as ever. for your comments. We're aware of all the website issues. The main priority at the moment is to make the iPlayer experience as smooth as possible for radio listeners and that's where the technical effort is going.
I know the experience is very different if you're listening overseas and that's because you'll be accessing us from a different server and there are some rights restriction that prevent us making some programmes avaialable outside the U.K.
Please stick with us and your feedback is really useful to us.
Jeff
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Z,
I feel that we may have watched different shows; I recently attended the BBC studios to see an episode of this show being made along with some friends.
Quite frankly it was not funny and I really feel embarrassed for such high profile actors and actresses to be associated with such a production. I do not know who the target audience is but it is clearly not hitting the mark. We were amongst a dozen people who walked out of the making of this show, and the age range of this group was from 22 right up to late 70s male and female.
If this is what our licence fee is being used for then it is most certainly time for it to be scrapped.
M
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