EP.76 - CHARLIE BROOKER

THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST

Adam Buxton

Comedy

4.8 • 20.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Adam talks with British writer, producer and presenter Charlie Brooker.

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS LANGUAGE AND THEMES THAT HAVE OFFENDED IN THE PAST AND MAY OFFEND AGAIN.

There was a problem with one of the mics on this episode hence roomy sound from back up recording. Apologies for any emotional scarring this may cause.

Hello. Adam here with a few notes and links related to this episode for you.

My rambly conversation with Charlie was recorded in March of 2018, in the west London house where he lives with his wife Connie and their two young children.

Charlie started his media career writing about video games in the 90s and we began by reminiscing about our childhood fascination with those blocky virtual worlds.

We also talked about Nathan Barley (Channel 4, 2005), Black Mirror (Channel 4, Netflix, 2011 - present), how comedic fury can be taken at face value, smoking, defecating, and how we would cope if we were on reality TV or facing armageddon and didn’t have Bear Grylls to advise us. Charlie also does a very good impression of comedian Jimmy Carr’s laugh.

Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support.

Music and jingles by Adam Buxton

ADAM BUXTON’S OLD BITS DVD/DOWNLOAD

ADAM & JOE - PEOPLE PLACE

TV GO HOME WEBSITE

NATHAN BARELY EP 1

‘WAKE IN FRIGHT’ 2012 ARTICLE IN THE NEW YORKER

‘WAKE IN FRIGHT’ HOW WAS THE KANGAROO SLAUGHTER FILMED?

ARISTON AD FEATURING ROBOCOP VIDEO GAME MUSIC

PYE CORNER AUDIO YOUTUBE PLAYLIST

Q.E.D. - A GUIDE TO ARMAGEDDON

PROTECT AND SURVIVE - 70s UK PUBLIC INFORMATION FILMS ABOUT NUCLEAR WAR

‘CHARLIE SAYS’ DON’T TALK TO STRANGERS

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0:00.0	This is a paid advertisement for BetterHelp Therapy Online.
0:03.3	Thought I'd bring my guitar along for the walk today was yes I noticed. Can I play you a song I just wrote?
0:10.9	Yeah great.
0:12.9	Sometimes I feel in the worst person in the world selfish and boring and everybody knows it.
0:20.9	I'm sick and tired of living in my head it's like a stinky ear from sewer and I really want to dance it.
0:28.9	Yeah I liked party pom pom. Why don't you do another one like that?
0:32.9	I'm bearing my soul.
0:34.9	Well that's very vulnerable of you but if that's really the way you feel about yourself.
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1:12.9	Oh yes they do do. At betterhelp.com slash boxed in.
1:17.9	Alright thanks Rosie. Let's get back on the road. Alright Mr Hendrix.
1:36.9	I took my microphone and found some human folk. Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke.
1:45.9	My name is Adam Baxter and I'm a man. I want you to enjoy this. That's the plan.
1:55.9	There she goes the hairy bullet. How you doing pod cats? Adam Baxter here. Welcome to podcast number 76.
2:11.9	It is the middle of May thereabouts 2018. I am walking down a track as you may be able to hear in the countryside out in the east.
2:23.9	It is a Sunday afternoon where there is a little bit of blood. But you know it could be a lot worse.
2:32.9	I'm not complaining. I don't want you to think I'm complaining. I'm lucky. I know it.
2:36.9	And so is Rosie my dog friend. She leads the good life out here. She's not even on a leash. There's no one around really in these fields.
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