#51 - The Isolation Tapes: Clock on, clock off
Elis James and John Robins
Significant Productions
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🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Recorded across the UK in Crystal Palace (Elis), Amersham (John) and Stockport (Producer Dave), enjoy the first instalment of Elis and John’s Isolation Tapes. More to follow!
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts BBC 5 Live |
| 0:07.0 | Ellison Johns Isolation Tapes on BBC Radio 5 Live |
| 0:14.0 | Okay everyone, welcome to the first of the Isolation tapes with Ellison John. Ellison's |
| 0:24.4 | currently got his head in his hands. I mentioned, I don't know when this is going |
| 0:30.3 | out, but this is the second time we've used this remote setup to record from our |
| 0:35.6 | three different houses as we are all avoiding London and the BBC and I made a |
| 0:41.5 | joke last time that getting Ellis set up was like a Barkley's digital |
| 0:47.5 | legal explaining email to a pensioner. Well we first connected 53 minutes ago |
| 0:55.9 | and it's taken that long to get Ellis sorted because he thought it would be a good |
| 1:00.8 | idea to change his operating system overnight just to make sure that he's |
| 1:05.6 | super efficient. That's caused problems on every single part of the process and |
| 1:12.0 | Ellis has already described it as the most stressful afternoon of his life. |
| 1:16.5 | So we're all in a great frame of mind to begin this sort of emergence. I guess |
| 1:23.8 | it's like an emergency broadcast slash coping mechanism slash bit of content to |
| 1:30.4 | help you through these changing ever shifting and troubled times. Ellis just |
| 1:36.0 | talk us through your mental state now. What was so frustrating was that my |
| 1:40.5 | computer has been hassling me to update his operating system for months and I |
| 1:45.7 | thought because I would be using my computer at the top level of its capacity |
| 1:51.0 | because of all of this recording we're doing from home. I thought okay fine I'll |
| 1:54.4 | do it. I did it overnight. It looks really new and shiny and exciting and it |
| 1:59.0 | keeps it keeps offering me virtual tours of my new operating system. The one |
| 2:04.3 | thing I wanted to do can no longer be done. So I'm thrilled I'm absolutely |
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