Christ keeps a low profile at Center Parcs for the weekend – meanwhile, SHITHOT TELLY
16:00 – Library mix
\ Kicking off with some funkin’ vibrary courtesy of the Altaxon label, while someone drives the fuck out of Swindon.
16:40 – Bad Influence!
\ The console industry eats its own tits after a colossal sales boom in the early 90s – let’s pore over the next box of silicon shat to try to lever several hundreds pounds out of your wallet.
17:00 – Raise The Roof
\ Gameshow barrel-scraping project part #215 – This one’s more notorious, offering A HOUSE as grand prize. Is that as unbelievably dull and bourgeois as it sounds? – Let’s find out!
17:30 – Chain Reaction (Radio 4)
\ Round-robin style comedy interview show. A riproaring episode, as poet John Cooper Clarke interviews comedian Kevin Eldon.
18:05 – FILM: The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
\ A documentary detailing Aaron Swartz – internet innovator, activist and wunderkind – whose information-liberating activities ultimately led to tragedy.
19:55 – Packet Of Three
\ Friday night C4 comedy and stand-up showcase, set in the Crumpsall Palladium theatre (as staffed by Henry Normal, Jenny Eclair and Frank Skinner). Guest stars Steve Coogan.
20:35 – The Thick Of It
\ Political sitcom. It’s party conference time, and physical violence is meted out while Nicola Murray MP and the team from DoSAC are holed up in their Eastbourne hotel room.
21:10 – FILM: The Day Shall Come (2019)
\ Chris Morris’ comedy follows Moses and his Star Of Six commune, who are about to collide head-on with an FBI programme of systematic incrimination of minority groups. Based on the true case of the Liberty City Seven and hundreds of others.
22:45 – The Weekenders
\ Been shown before, but I fancied another watch of this marvellous Ealing-comedy style pilot made by Vic & Bob in 1992 (part of the Bunch Of Five series of pilots). Two men decide to fill their weekend with an excursion to a meat festival.
23:15 – The New Sound Of Music
\ BBC documentary from 1979 plunging into the fascinating and strange new creativity on the bold new frontier of ‘electronic music’.
00:05 – Adam and Joe Go Tokyo
\ BBC Three series from 2003 – Adam & Joe host a wry round-up of Japanese culture, fads and phenomena from their studio in Tokyo. Music from Polysics.
00:35 – Late mix
\ We round off with a superb mix of underground breaks while we have a 4am wander through the streets of London as it full-on pisses down.
Times and contents to be amended, please don’t be offended, splendid