#78 Recreation (Part 1)
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🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Elis’ is off filming his stand-up Christmas special, so we’re delighted to welcome in his stead the star of Radio X, Pappy’s and the Beckenham fireworks display: Matthew Crosby! And we’ll be discussing Recreation; how the vikings spent their spare time, the smash hit Tudor game of Fives and the national obsession with modelling.
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| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to Oh What a Time. |
| 0:22.0 | It's a big week. |
| 0:22.8 | It's a special week. |
| 0:23.8 | Ellis James is off filming his stand-up special for S4C, |
| 0:27.6 | the Welsh-speaking channel of note that will be out on Christmas Day. |
| 0:31.1 | So we've got a special guest in. |
| 0:32.5 | He is the star of Pappies. |
| 0:34.0 | He's the star of XFM. |
| 0:35.3 | But for me, he'll always be the star of the Beckingham |
| 0:38.1 | Firework Display. Welcome, Matthew Crosby. The fireworks are the star, Chris, as well you know. |
| 0:45.8 | The fireworks are the star. I'm just there as a cheerleader. But it's great to be here. |
| 0:49.9 | Thank you for joining us, Crosby. Let's just get into that straight away. It's so cool. Every year, |
| 0:54.9 | you get to MC or local fireworks display, which incidentally is not something I was aware that |
| 1:00.8 | happened. I've never seen an MC of fireworks display before, but you get to do it. Yeah, I mean, |
| 1:05.6 | MC is a strong term. Yeah, I was going to say, it's a term more associated with the UK garage |
| 1:10.5 | scene than it is with fireworks displays. Even described myself as a master term. Yeah, I was going to say it's a term more associated with the UK garage scene |
| 1:10.9 | than it is with fireworks displays. Even described myself as a master of ceremonies, I think that's |
| 1:16.8 | still, that's still too strong. Basically, the jobs I do is a 20 minute, a 10 minute, a five minute |
| 1:22.9 | call for the fireworks. I tell people to go and use all the street stalls and all that kind of stuff and get |
| 1:28.6 | some food. I sort of keep, I keep spirits up. I also do this competition, which I do it every year, |
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