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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Faster than a hangman - 10 Jun 15

Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.3808 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Just for the podcasters - a little bit extra from the acerbic wit of London's longest-serving talkshow host!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

0:05.9

Morning, everybody, welcome along to your...

0:07.3

Do you know, it's like a conveyor belt here?

0:09.3

Seriously, it's like a conveyor, but we seamlessly flow from one program.

0:12.8

You listen to this as a standalone program, ladies and gentlemen.

0:15.9

Whereas, in effect, if you saw this on the internet,

0:18.8

we have two studios operating at the moment, which I quite like.

0:22.4

You know, the studio we're in, we have the super duper deluxe studio downstairs, available in one size, and it's enormous.

0:28.7

I feel kind of lost in it, but it's lovely working in it.

0:31.5

And then we've got little cosy studio upstairs.

0:35.2

So, Darren Adam comes from downstairs, and then we can set this studio up up here.

0:40.1

And so we finished doing the program at half past, well just before half past six, which is then

0:46.7

taken over by downstairs. So they make downstairs studio live. This one then goes offline and

0:52.0

Will will say to me, okay, we're out. I then push three little buttons in here.

0:55.9

And then he holds his thumb up and I go straight into, welcome to today's podcast.

1:00.5

And it works as fast as that.

1:04.1

15 seconds.

1:05.4

Do you know, people got hanged slower than that.

1:09.1

Albert Pierpoint could get them, actually, no, he was

1:11.1

faster. He reckoned he could get somebody down in seven seconds. Seven seconds was fast, and that

1:17.5

involved, that was when they were actually on the scaffold. Bearing mind, he'd been there the night,

1:22.3

I don't know, I've gotten to this one. It's nice to wander, isn't it? Thank God for drugs.

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