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Message 1 - posted by billandgrace
(U3901730)
, May 2, 2006
This is just dreadful!I
I have signed up to the message board just to express my consternation. It was clear within two minutes of listining to this new programme that it is a spoof - (not sure of what). It is just very very boring. Have googled it, and it seems the BBC press department have promoted it as real live phone in - which it is absolutely not. I am flabbergasted at its awfulness! What ARE they trying to achieve? Sorry - I'll shut up now. But it really is bad.
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Message 2 - posted by Millie
(U3275603)
, May 2, 2006
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mb...I agree. See my thread.
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Message 3 - posted by emcraw
(U1162256)
, May 2, 2006
This is awful! I wondered what station I was listening to when I first turned the radio on. I came back to Radio 4 a few months ago after tiring of the increasingly inane phone ins on LBC and what I heard tonight is exactly the sort of thing that caused me to tune out of LBC. I realise it's a spoof but I just found it irritating and definately not funny.
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Message 4 - posted by misterfixit
(U3901759)
, May 2, 2006
I agree,
What the hell does the BBC think it is doing to radio 4? It's sacrilage to put such dreadful rubbish on air. One thing radio 4 was good at was helping you wind down at the end of the day with intelligent stimulating programming, NOT regurgetated drivel and crass cringeworthy antagonistic rubbish.
I am an aerospace design engneer and 29 years of age, I do not think of myself as old (but who does) and I recall countless conversations I had with My mum when I was younger. To which the answer was always "you'll grow into radio4" Now I have and there's some 19th century archeology going on where you are just dynamiting the institution indescriminately. Leave radio 4 as it was.
You as conrollers are custodians and caretakers of one of our institutions. Not brand managers! Can you imagine the outcry if we tried to modernise the tower of london in the same way?.
I would phone in but I dont want to give the program the fuel it so desperately is seeking.
Richard Humphrey
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Message 5 - posted by likath
(U3901737)
, May 2, 2006
OMG, this is awful, I turned on the radio, and just happened to hear this. Is radio 4 trying to pull some sort of stunt? Please let this be a spoof,and NOT a live talk show. The presenter is more offensive than Chris Molyes. "Are you Black?" and to a man from Barbuda, to tell him his country doesn't exist???? Though admittedly, it was highly entertaining when line to the "controversial" Holocaust denier failed, but we could still hear every word down the line... swans breaking arms, rintones to the tune of a swansong....no Chinese parking attendants????? I think I'm switching radio stations for awhile.... This is just dreadful!I
I have signed up to the message board just to express my consternation. It was clear within two minutes of listining to this new programme that it is a spoof - (not sure of what). It is just very very boring. Have googled it, and it seems the BBC press department have promoted it as real live phone in - which it is absolutely not. I am flabbergasted at its awfulness! What ARE they trying to achieve? Sorry - I'll shut up now. But it really is bad.Quoted
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billandgrace
This is just dreadful!I
I have signed up to the message board just to express my consternation. It was clear within two minutes of listining to this new programme that it is a spoof - (not sure of what). It is just very very boring. Have googled it, and it seems the BBC press department have promoted it as real live phone in - which it is absolutely not. I am flabbergasted at its awfulness! What ARE they trying to achieve? Sorry - I'll shut up now. But it really is bad.Quoted
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billandgrace
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Message 6 - posted by Millie
(U3275603)
, May 2, 2006
It's ridiculous and at least should have been listed as a comedy programme if that is what it is supposed to be. The website said it was a new, live phone-in. This is in fact, a lie and not a joke! I enjoy comedy with the best of them but this was listed as 'factual'. Whose smart idea?
And what of those without a computer who can't join the message boards to get their heads straight? A joke at your listners expense; you wouldn't have dared broadcast it earlier..
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Message 7 - posted by AlanOfCroydon
(U3270971)
, May 2, 2006
This is just dreadful!I
I have signed up to the message board just to express my consternation. It was clear within two minutes of listining to this new programme that it is a spoof - (not sure of what). It is just very very boring. Have googled it, and it seems the BBC press department have promoted it as real live phone in - which it is absolutely not. I am flabbergasted at its awfulness! What ARE they trying to achieve? Sorry - I'll shut up now. But it really is bad.Quoted
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billandgrace
Great show. Just about the standard of your average 'Choice is Yours' thread.
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Message 8 - posted by Kevin of Washington
(U3901773)
, May 2, 2006
I agree with all of the above.
I too have joined the message board simply to express my opinion about thus programme.
I really can't see what the point of the proggramme was.
Was it supposed to be alternative comedy?
Did anyone find it ammusing?
Did the BBC run out of programmes and use this to fill the space?
I'd rather have heard the BBC theme tune played for 30 minutes than this drivel - even a real phone in would have been more interesting.
Sorry BBC but you got it wrong on this occassion take the programme off as sokn as possible - Please.
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Message 9 - posted by AlanOfCroydon
(U3270971)
, May 2, 2006
It was hilarious. I shall long carry with me the picture of the Labour activist walking up to black people in the street, shaking them by the hand and saying 'Welcome to this country'.
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Message 10 - posted by Kno77y
(U1682519)
, May 3, 2006
There are bad radio programmes - then there is "Down the Line". Please tell me that it the unfunny radio version of "Brass Eye" and I am so thick that I can't see the joke. The presenter, Gary Bellamy is billed as "the award-winning talk show host". Which award was that? Has Clive James revived his famous Tin Bum of Rangoon Award?
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Message 11 - posted by jamest344
(U3902493)
, May 3, 2006
Very funny, I would love to believe that it was for real. However the flaw that gave it away was the lack of noise on the line from callers.
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Message 12 - posted by alanparker
(U1262502)
, May 3, 2006
It really was boring. I wasn't even tired, but I must have fallen asleep at about 11:20
I really did try hard to listen to it!
I figured it was a spoof before even the first call was taken, then the bad acting and badly faked phone line confirmed it within 2 seconds of the first phone call.
Left me with the same feeling of disappointment I get when I realise we're in for another eternity of Quote Unquote before another round of ISIHAC..
The thing is, it's actually far funnier listening to Clive Bull on LBC. That's genuine talk radio with geniune nutters. Far funnier than this down the line drivel. (If anyone has been put off LBC by hearing the appalling Ian Lee, turn back on a bit later, 8-midnight, for Clive Bull)
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Message 13 - posted by AlanOfCroydon
(U3270971)
, May 3, 2006
Please tell me that it (is) the unfunny radio version of "Brass Eye" and I am so thick that I can't see the joke.Quoted
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Kno77y
It is the unfunny radio version of "Brass Eye" and you are so thick that you can't see the joke.
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Message 14 - posted by AlanOfCroydon
(U3270971)
, May 3, 2006
Actually it was brilliantly funny. Can you imagine Jonathan Dimbleby, for example, saying "we would like more black people to phone in", asking every caller if they were black, then when he finally got one telling him to booger off.
Or asking his production team if they were racist and getting the reply 'Well I am a bit'.
So many more nuggets in this programme. Hope it is scheduled for a run.
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Message 15 - posted by luke_humphry
(U3902096)
, May 3, 2006
This was a FANTASTIC show, i can't believe how many of you didn't find it as hilarious as i did. I had to get up early the next day and was desperately trying to get to sleep but i ended up laughing out loud at regular intervals for the whole half hour.
This was one of the most refreshing and comedies i have heard for some time, and i applaud R4 for airing it.
For those who didn't get it - watch the Office, Brass Eye, and try and get a recording of KYTV.
I am surprised at the lack of humour and wit that the r4 listenership seem to have, poor show!
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Message 16 - posted by alanparker
(U1262502)
, May 3, 2006
I am surprised at the lack of humour and wit that the r4 listenership seem to have, poor show!
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But, um, it's just some lame comedian and a couple of bad actors having listened to 5 live for a couple of hours, and then written something witless and pointless. It's not that we don't "get" it, it's just not funny. Question: Do you find David Letterman, Howard Stern or Strassman funny? If so, then I can see why you might like this. But Radio 4 listeners, are, on the whole, a little more discerning.
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Message 17 - posted by seren
(U1644870)
, May 3, 2006
I am surprised at the lack of humour and wit that the r4 listenership seem to have, poor show!
But, um, it's just some lame comedian and a couple of bad actors having listened to 5 live for a couple of hours, and then written something witless and pointless. It's not that we don't "get" it, it's just not funny.
Question: Do you find David Letterman, Howard Stern or Strassman funny? If so, then I can see why you might like this. But Radio 4 listeners, are, on the whole, a little more discerning.Quoted
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Thats sort of missing the point though isn't it? I couldn't handle Letterman or Stern but this programme was, it seems, parodying the shock jocks not emulating them. Maybe it was a bit lively for radio 4 but it was a classic piece of satire that was not unlike the work of Chris Morris.
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Message 18 - posted by Bishy_Barney_Bee
(U3905130)
, May 3, 2006
Dear BBC, I am writing to protest in the strongest possible manner at the extraordinary lack of humour shown by a slim tranche of the R4 Audience. For once I found the 11pm slot home to a comedy not aimed at, well people of a gentle disposition. Uncharacteristically you have finally commissioned something that [as far as I could tell] did not feature that Brigstock fellow [funny though he can be] or Hugh Denis. And ho, ho ho ! what a wheeze to try fool us it was part of the BBC's Factual output, why even my elderly brother could see through that particular jape! Well done BBC Radio 4 - job's a good'un, as our gardener Mr Dibwood would put it.
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Message 19 - posted by prosperosgirl
(U2684107)
, May 3, 2006
Thought it was really funny. Loved the interview with the black guy who Gary said couldn't be black - reminded me a lot of Ricky Gervais. Hope Jeremy Vine was listening, for a comedy, a lot of it sounded like his real show.
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Message 20 - posted by Farwriter
(U2817389)
, May 3, 2006
I'm so relieved to see so many people with whom I agree!! I've never left a message here before and I too was compelled to do so by this travesty of a programme. I hope it WAS a spoof because I cannot BELIEVE it was real, but having said that, it's truly TRULY awful, and very VERY unfunny. Please please remove it from the airwaves as soon as humanly possible.
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