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Christmassy stuff
By Will last year, at the end of December Add your comment below
Happy Christmas.
Sometimes, there’s something worth watching on TV over Christmas. Not often, unless you class Victoria Wood and Catherine Tate as quality entertainment. Oh – and the Queen of course. She gets top billing for the 52nd consecutive year. Top effort from the uppercase Q; she’s rarely offered much flair or dynamism, apart from the 1992 season’s round-up (“Annus horribilis”), but she’s provided annual consistency when those around her simply cannot be relied upon.
Sorry. Been on the port.
Anyway, thought I’d mention a couple of radio shows I’ve listened to which are worth your time. The first is written by Ian Hislop and stars Jack Dee and Peter Capaldi – the fuck-man of The Thick Of It – along with Chris Addison, called The News At Bedtime. It wasn’t groundbreaking but still enjoyable, though it did make me think of Chris Morris’s On The Hour which really was breaking new ground.
The second is Andy Zaltzman’s History of the Third Millennium, though I’m slightly biased as I was the pest who lured the big AZ to Cricinfo. It’s bloody good, though.
The Zaltzmans are conquering the world of podcasts. Long before I met Andy and even listened to The Bugle, I was a big fan of Helen and Olly’s Answer Me This. It only occurred to me after I’d met Andy that Helen was his sister. Anyway, Helen and Olly are on Five Live next Thursday, which is a pretty cool gig, so keep your ears peeled for that.
And of course, there’s TMS for Boxing Day.
Listened to anything good yourself lately?
Tags: andy zaltzman, answer me this, chris addison, chris morris, christmas, comedy, helen zaltzman, ian hislop, on the hour, peter capaldi, podcasts, radio, the bugle, the news at bedtime, the queen |
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December 25th, 2009 at 9.23 am
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