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Elis James and John Robins

#99 - Micro Pigs, Rude Rugby and Le Great Yarmouth

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

With backroom production staff dropping like flies, show vibes were a little looser than usual today. Still, what is live radio if backs aren't firmly against the wall for the entirety of the broadcast? Enjoy the chaos.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.5

OK, we are recording the intro to the show, Dave,

0:07.8

have you been fielding calls?

0:09.9

What do you mean? Have you had texts from top brass?

0:12.6

No, not yet.

0:13.8

You mean not?

0:14.8

Yeah, she's a worry, because I wonder whether it's just what they come to expect.

0:18.8

Suffice to say, today's show is a little bit of an obstacle course of a show.

0:23.2

That's a nice way of putting it. Yeah.

0:25.4

I mean, you can be very diplomatic with your language in terms of.

0:29.1

Well, you know how you can get away with one mistake every show.

0:34.0

I think that's the sort of show we could only get away with once maybe a year.

0:38.1

Well, if that happened again,

0:39.7

it would perhaps raise a right smile with BBC Top Brass,

0:43.6

but I think it happened again next week, there would be like,

0:46.5

there would be a problem.

0:48.1

Just, oh, we do mention this on the show,

0:50.8

but we lost our producer and our studio manager at Radicalistie Short Notice.

0:57.0

So round of applause and lots of credit for the studio manager and producer

1:01.6

who sat in with seconds to spare, because they hadn't done the show before.

1:07.1

Obviously, there are tricky things to navigate,

1:09.9

and we had one or two bumps in the road.

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