notes.husk.org. tagged radio 4.

2010-12-21

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“ During one round of the game, Stephen Fry suggested that ‘countryside’ should mean ‘to kill Piers Morgan’. ”

From the section on the Uxbridge English Dictionary in Wikipedia’s List of games on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue.

2010-12-03

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Thanks last.fm for that (by Daniel Catt)

2010-07-26

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Writter (by russelldavies)

2010-01-08

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Afternoon Play: The Killing of the TSR2 on the BBC Radio 4 programmes site.

“ If by accident you tune into Radio 4 and you’re normal, it just sounds like complete gobbledegook to you. The fact that a Radio 4 audience may not recognise that that’s a normal reaction to hearing Radio 4 to most people in Britain is I think a bit unfortunate because a Radio 4 audience is supposed to be imaginative and interested in this
kind of thing. ”

Professor Danny Dorling, quoted in the transcript of a BBC Radio 4 (where else?) Analysis programme about “the powerful effects of ‘group think’, increased social segregation and our unhealthy tendency to compare ourselves with those who are better off (but not those worse off) than ourselves.”

2009-06-19

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“ Didn’t Pizza Hut get rebranded as Pasta Hut last year? Or was that an UK only thing? ”

iamdanw on Pizza Hut’s possible rebranding to “The Hut” (via Lee, marco)

Yes, this was just a UK thing, and more to the point, it was pretty much a naked publicity stunt. Entirely unsurprisingly, a poll after a few months (on Facebook, if I’m remembering correctly) resulted in the name reverting, with a huge majority for the Pizza Hut brand.

This is all remembered from last week’s episode of Radio 4’s Bottom Line, which featured Jens Hofma, chief executive of Pizza Hut UK, and which you can still hear with Listen Again (possibly only in the UK). He doesn’t quite admit it was all done for the coverage, but he doesn’t exactly deny it either.

2009-03-25

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I’m on a plane to San Francisco. See you on the other side.

This lovely picture is from the BBC’s programme page for Lost Voices: Harry Fainlight: Soul on Fire.

notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.