Gecko Calling!

Radio 1’s All Day Breakfast with Greg James

BBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

A doctor in Hawaii was concerned when she saw 9 voicemails from a number – it was a gecko calling her! The gecko didn’t sound how Greg thought it would and called some listeners with the gecko. Also another edition of The Fact Controller which includes ham birds and cash dispensing video games.

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:04.6	My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
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0:39.0	Hello from London's Trendy Argyll Street. I left the office about 10 minutes ago and
0:46.3	realized I didn't do a podcast before I left. Now I want to be clear that I am
0:49.8	actually going back in later, but I just thought instead of running back to do this on the
0:55.0	mic now I thought I just do it on my phone because I care about you okay I'm a nice
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1:16.0	Anyway, hello and welcome to Tuesday's podcast. A bouncy fun show of joy today, even though it's Tuesday, which is the worst day of the week,
1:28.0	statistically. Lots of fun stuff happened.
1:33.0	What I'm going to bring you first is today's Fact Controller.
1:37.0	Dotty from the One Eighth to Breakfast Show is here.
1:39.0	Hello!
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1:42.8	Morning.
1:43.4	Shall we?
1:44.4	Let's do it.
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