the

the Show #19 – Don’t F**k With Me Argentina


A nine-hour loaf where the slices are TELLY BUSINESS.

16:00 – Breaks mix
\ Been wanting to play more music, so we kick off with a cracking mix of current underground breaks, accompanied by scrolling shooters and maybe even a disco dancing competition.

17:00 – Concentration
\ One of those 1980s US-to-UK shovelware gameshows – this one’s like a more demented Catchphrase with the card game Pairs laid on top of it. Lead in petrol etc.

17:25 – Radio Reeves & Mortimer (Radio 1)
\ A hidden gem from the Vic & Bob canon – R&M take over Radio 1 in 1994, in that short period of time when R1 let comedians in to play records and muck about.

17:55 – The Secret Story of the BBC Christmas Tapes
\ CAB TV Xmas #657 of this year – Rhys Thomas’s trawl through the lurid contents of those tapes BBC VT engineers used to produce for their Xmas parties, with interviews from their makers and stars.

18:25 – True Spies – ‘Subversive My Arse’
\ More wacky capers with the Special Branch, as their spycops infiltrate, disrupt and copulate with more dangerous challenges to the British status quo, what with their inherently threatening meetings above pubs.

19:30 – Public Enemy – Prophets of Rage
\ Documentary studying the musically-audacious and polemically-infused hip hop of Public Enemy. Find out where Chuck D gets all his funny ideas from.

20:30 – Not With A Bang
\ Digitally-obscure LWT sitcom from 1990 about the few human survivors of an accident that wiped out mankind. I remember enjoying it at the time, but that’s no guarantee is it. Stars Josie Lawrence.

21:00 – The Thick Of It
\ The new unimproved Department of Social Affairs (and Citizenship) move into their swanky new PFI building. Hugh makes the twin mistakes of using e-mail and having a conscience.

21:35 – FILM: Shaun The Sheep Movie (2015)
\ A solid gold dialogue-free comedy romp from the gals and guys at Aardman. Shaun’s desire to have a day off triggers a string of mishaps and mayhem.

23:10 – Europigeon
\ John Shuttleworth’s attempts to represent the UK at the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest suffer a series of setbacks, all egged on by an apparition of Wogan.

23:50 – Night mix
\ We end with more music, this time one of the best and most technically impressive mixes I’ve ever heard, from Freddy Fresh. Accompanied by a long smooth wander around the streets of Newcastle.

01:05 – Closedown

Bonus prickety boo-bah throughout, while the schedule my friend is blowin’ in the wind



Leave a Reply