Down the Line

[flossietoo]

Back for a new series in the comedy slot on Radio 4 on Wednesday. Ooh - and there is a 'new' Paul Temple story running across every day on 4-Extra. I confess to having a bit of a crush on Mr Temple, however improbable the plot in which he finds himself.

 

[Gramaisc]

Back for a new series in the comedy slot on Radio 4 on Wednesday. Ooh - and there is a 'new' Paul Temple story running across every day on 4-Extra. I confess to having a bit of a crush on Mr Temple, however improbable the plot in which he finds himself.

Down the Line can be almost painfully funny, it's too real.

I recall the contestants in an episode of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue being asked to modernise old proverbs and As Mad As... became As Mad As A Phone-In Caller...

I have a stack of Paul Temple CDs that I use for long journeys - mostly to Holyhead.

 

[flossietoo]

Down the Line can be almost painfully funny, it's too real.

I recall the contestants in an episode of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue being asked to modernise old proverbs and As Mad As... became As Mad As A Phone-In Caller...

I have a stack of Paul Temple CDs that I use for long journeys - mostly to Holyhead.

I try to avoid long car journeys anywhere but I too have a stack of Paul Temple CDs. I transferred them onto my laptop and thence to my MP3 player. Often when I am walking the dogs or on the bike I am lost in a wonderful, daft, 1950's world.

 

[Gramaisc]

I try to avoid long car journeys anywhere but I too have a stack of Paul Temple CDs. I transferred them onto my laptop and thence to my MP3 player. Often when I am walking the dogs or on the bike I am lost in a wonderful, daft, 1950's world.

 

[flossietoo]

By Timothy it's Paul!

I am particularly fond of the VanDyke Affair because of the frankly astonishing portrayal of a 'gay' character. I suspect Paul had very little experience of alternative lifestyles. He has enough trouble with foreigners.

 

[Gramaisc]

By Timothy it's Paul!

I am particularly fond of the VanDyke Affair because of the frankly astonishing portrayal of a 'gay' character. I suspect Paul had very little experience of alternative lifestyles. He has enough trouble with foreigners.

Send for Paul Temple was first broadcast way back in 1938..

Foreigners are not to be trusted.

Van Dyke? Gay? Hardly a co-incidence...

 

[Gramaisc]

I too have a stack of Paul Temple CDs.

Do you have an unabridged Paul Temple Intervenes? There is a six CD package, read by Toby Stevens, in The Works for £3.99. There's one left, on the first table on the left as a you go in, on the rear side of the table.

 

[flossietoo]

Coincidentally at the time you posted this, I was looking at pictures of Maggie Smith and a very young Toby Stevens within the brilliant Dave Allen documentary a friend had saved for me.

Thanks for the heads-up about the CDs.

 

[Gramaisc]

It's hidden in the pile of James Bond audio-books, you may have to dig for it...

 

[Withnail]

On a slightly more related note, i hadn't heard any previous of this so tuned in last Wed - found it a bit hit 'n' miss as might be expected of any 'sketch' show, but can relate that there were genuine lolz to be had.

Particularly enjoyed the stilted laugh of the lady that would eat squid but not calamari *too many syllables* - will certainly tune in again.

 

[Gramaisc]

On a slightly more related note, i hadn't heard any previous of this so tuned in last Wed - found it a bit hit 'n' miss as might be expected of any 'sketch' show, but can relate that there were genuine lolz to be had.

Particularly enjoyed the stilted laugh of the lady that would eat squid but not calamari *too many syllables* - will certainly tune in again.

As with many similar things, the first series was the best..

...try listening to Any Answers afterwards...

 

[flossietoo]

As with many similar things, the first series was the best..

...try listening to Any Answers afterwards...

That's exactly what I do - listen to Jeremy Vine the next day. It is particularly good when, as they so often do, his callers get onto the subject of capital punishment. Then I derive a great deal of pleasure from imagining that the Down the Line team are secretly invading other broadcasts.

 

[Gramaisc]

That's exactly what I do - listen to Jeremy Vine the next day. It is particularly good when, as they so often do, his callers get onto the subject of capital punishment. Then I derive a great deal of pleasure from imagining that the Down the Line team are secretly invading other broadcasts.

I just can't listen to Jeremy Vine - it's like going on one of those Victorian Lunatic Asylum tours....

They have him on in the Hospice Shop by the old Post office - I have to time my visits to avoid him.

I never thought that anything could be worse than Jimmy Young.

From Round the Horne, 1965.

Phone rings.

Kenneth Horne. Hello, BBC here.

Betty Marsden. Oh, hello. Would you be Jimmy Young?

KH. Certainly not! Would you?

BM. No, not for a million pounds.

Fifty years on and it still continues......

 

[Withnail]

You know, now i think about it, i'm not sure that i have seen a pencil in France.

Flossietoo, surely the time has come to give up the spaniels in favour of the badgerhound. Half pit bull, half rottweiler, half mastiff - what's not to like?

 

[flossietoo]

A total nutter but really good with the kids next door.

 

[flossietoo]

When I'm out protesting against the badger cull this Summer I will, of course, look out for people who only want to kick them.

 

[Withnail]

If they be Maasai they should be reasonably easy to spot.

 

[Gramaisc]

..is back on, now - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zf1zy .

 

[Gramaisc]

This is fantastic....

..where's Gary Bellamy when you need him..?

I'm fairly confident that we're talking about Viscount biscuits here.

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[flossietoo]

I have just returned from a walking holiday. Cold and soaked through. Even the insides of my ears were full of rain.

And then I listened to this.

And cried with laughter.

Thank you.

(I wouldn't like the minty ones at all. I'd give those to the neighbour and keep the orange ones for myself)