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Elis James and John Robins

#142 - The Isolation Tapes: Life Is First Boredom, Then Fear

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Vintage stuff from Elis, John and Producer Dave today with all frequencies of the electromagnetic #content spectrum touched upon; namely John’s "bag of death", Elis’s aversion to improv warm-up games, and Dave’s upcoming jury duty.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.6

Dave, what on earth have you done?

0:06.8

Put a towel over your computer?

0:09.0

Well, no, I've put a towel, I'm putting a towel up behind my computer,

0:12.1

so what happens is I don't just echo off the hard wall,

0:16.0

so it actually softens the acoustics of my office, John.

0:21.0

Hmm.

0:22.0

And it served me, may I say, really well over the last few months.

0:26.7

There you go for it's little glimpse behind the cloth magic.

0:30.9

It's a pink unicorn towel, it's lilas.

0:35.9

So it's functional and playful, which I think is key.

0:39.4

BBC Five Live.

0:41.2

Hello, everyone. Welcome to the isolation tapes.

0:53.2

I keep thinking about doing everything in French, but I don't know French.

0:56.4

Bonjour, ça va?

0:58.2

Bienvenue à… Bienvenue à isolation tapes.

1:02.4

Oui, oui, oui, Très bien.

1:04.4

I hope this isolation tape finds you well, folks.

1:09.3

We're just dealing with the fallout from the fact that Dave

1:12.8

has been called up for jury service,

1:15.5

and like a full slash public servant

1:18.7

has not tried to wangle his way out of it.

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