Wednesday 17 January 2018

“You want seconds?!”




“You want seconds?!”

We were surprised and delighted (as the old saying goes) to hear that people had actually enjoyed listening to Episode One. To get positive feedback from people whose work we respect was simply wonderful. It seemed that there was an audience for our nonsense, so we soon turned our attention to our difficult second album.

Thankfully, for Episode Two we already had more of Nick’s interview available and our dear friend Warren Cummings was more than happy to have a chat with us as well. So the ball was already rolling.

Lisa was keen to talk about ‘Paddington’ and we’d been watching far too much ‘3-2-1’ recently, so that was an easy choice for our final article. In fact, the first episode of ‘3-2-1’ is hypnotic viewing, especially when they unveil the St Bernard dog (“£150 he’s worth. If you wouldn’t have wanted him, we could have sold him back to the kennels, of course. You’d have got £150…”) and year’s supply of brandy we that Janice Long might have won!

Also, we’d discovered the wonder that is BBC Genome, which has proved itself to be an essential research tool. So we set the coordinates for the first week of 1976 and took a wander through the schedules, not quite knowing what we might stumble across.

Slowly we seemed to be evolving an identity and something approaching a format. Which was nice.

And, more ominously, the list of series we wanted to cover seemed to be getting longer and longer…

(By Andrew Trowbridge)

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