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Just in case you want to go to bed listening to Joanna Page, she’s reading Mari Strachan’s children’s detective story The Earth Hums in B Flat every night this week on Radio 4 at 10.45pm.
Thought I’d mention it.
Dragons’ Den, BBC2’s investment reality show, is very, very popular. Not content with having four ‘Dragons’ to vet business propositions and sink their own money into ventures, the show now has two online Dragons, whom you can pitch to on the Dragons’ Den web site. In fact, you can view some pitches already.
Here, Dominic Byrne, more famous to radio listeners for producing Chris Moyles’ breakfast show but who’s the online version of Evan Davis for this, interviews the two online Dragons, Julie Meyer and Shaf Rasul:
I’m not really a big fan of Chris Moyles (translation: I find him irritating), but Gary Barlow recently did a birthday song for him, based on a famous Take That hit, that’s quite funny and has a nice video to go with it. So here it is.
[via lovely wife]
As Radio 4 comedies go, Safety Catch is an odd little show. Starring Darren Boyd (Green Wing, Smack the Pony), Joanna Page (Gavin and Stacey), Brigit Forsyth (The Likely Lads), Lewis McLeod (Look Around You) and Sarah Smart (Wallander), it’s aimed at the same kind of liberal, middle class audience as more obvious fare like Claire in the Community.
But it’s about a man who makes a living from mass murder, gun running and selling weapons to child soldiers ("putting the infant in infantry").
No wonder then that yet again it’s been marooned in the 11.30pm slot when it returns for its second series on 1st April.
But, hey, I went to see two episodes being recorded last Sunday. Here’s what that was like.
Happy birthday, lovely wife!
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