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gains the idiosyncratic speech patterns and propensity to injury that became his defining traits, and Mike Stand is effectively reinvented as a completely new character, changing from an old-school rock DJ in the first series, to a giggling, infantile children's presenter. Although he would come to be regarded as a main character, Martin Brown is not introduced until series 4, and was originally intended as a one-off character (he is so incompetent that during his first show, the station's other presenters are revealed to be listening in another studio and laying bets on how long it will take for Sir Norman to fire him – which duly happens at the end of the episode) but was so well-received that a brief appearance by the character was added to the final episode of the series, before he was brought back as a regular in the fifth series.
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could be revived in the same manner, with the stage show presented as a mock radio recording. The surviving original cast members subsequently appeared at the Fringe in August 2016 in a show using two radio scripts, "David Chizzlenut" and "Did You Catch It?". The "David Chizzlenut" section, recorded
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largely unchanged from their radio incarnations, including Mike Channel, Mike Flex, Anna Daptor and Martin Brown, who formed the central presentation team for KYTV's programmes; other characters including Anna Rabies and the Right Reverend Reverend Wright also transferred across. Phillip Pope's main
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The show is based on a fictional radio station (described as "Britain's first national local radio station") and the programmes that it might transmit. Initially the radio station concept was used simply as a loose framing device for otherwise unlinked sketches and songs, but as the show developed,
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The third episode of series 7 ("The God Alone Knows Show") caused many complaints on its first transmission and so was edited for the mid-week repeat and all later broadcasts. In particular, in the broadcast church service near the start of the episode, the inability of any of the congregation to
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An LP of sketches from the second and third series was released by BBC Records in 1983, with a cassette featuring the episodes "David Chizzlenut" and "Mega Phone-In" following in 1993 as part of the BBC Canned Laughter range. A CD of the first series was released in 2010 on the BBC Classic Radio
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The second series sees the characters become more defined, with Mike Channel revealed as the station's longest-serving presenter and resentful of the more popular younger hosts, especially Mike Flex, whom Channel frequently complained had taken "his" mid-morning show. At the same time, Nigel Pry
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The "commercials" feature many parodies of current TV adverts and other running jokes, including conversations between housewives Mary (Fenton Stevens putting on a high-pitched voice) and June (Atkinson-Wood); goods and services of dubious legality offered by "Honest Ron – the others are a con"
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broadcaster, and a number of new features and scenarios which parodied television convention were added. Spoof commercials continued to broadcast, along with parodies of the self-promotions and branding which were a common feature of television stations at this point.
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The programmes often pitch the "modern-media" regular characters against older stereotypes of foreigners and "establishment types" such as generals and politicians, though the programme rarely strays into the
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usually give a performance with wild misreadings of the scripts ("She's seriously one hundred and eleven. (Pause). She's seriously ill.") and miscued sound effects.
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scripts and/or plot devices originally heard on the radio series were reused for the TV show, though the central setting changed from a local radio station to a
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the episodes became more thematically focused, each one lampooning a different broadcasting genre and sometimes even a specific programme such as
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Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins wrote most of the material. The first series was credited as written by Deayton, Perkins and
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Mike Flex presides over the rigged "Master Quiz" with ever-changing rules and format, although the prize remains the same: a
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special) between 1989 and 1993. The TV show was written, produced and performed by largely the same team as had worked on
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poster) was deleted completely. To make up the lost time, the preceding article was lengthened with a few extra lines.
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were changed to remove two which were originally of a sexual nature (replaced by "thou shalt not listen to the
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student drama community, especially in the musical parodies of Philip Pope, which were regularly featured on
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Episodes from the series were repeated on Radio 4 in late 2002, and again on classic comedy radio station
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The series theme tune is "Out To Lunch" by The Client, a 1979 RCA single (PB5214), originally used for a
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The Radio Active team performed the same two episodes on a UK tour in 2019, with extra material added.
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Most of the original characters on the show are named after pieces of sound equipment, including:
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Comedy label, with some minor music edits to "The Midday Show with Anna Daptor". A tie-in book,
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Each programme starts and ends with a comical handover to the Radio 4 continuity announcer.
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between 1980 and 1988 (as detailed in the table below). One special from the same team (
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correctly was replaced with a request for two girls in the front row to turn off their
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Remake of Series 4 Episode 8, performed at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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at the Fringe, was also broadcast as a one-off special on Radio 4.
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Pope was also responsible for the very long and very contemporary
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Broadcast on Radio 2. Geoffrey Perkins absent; guest presenter
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in 2003, late 2004, early 2005 and mid-2006 and again in 2007.
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at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2015, Deayton felt that
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was virtually limited to the phrase "and on with the music"
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In 2014, Angus Deayton appeared on the Radio 4 series
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The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book
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Index

Sketch show
BBC Radio 4
KYTV
Angus Deayton
Geoffrey Perkins
Michael Fenton Stevens
Helen Atkinson-Wood
Philip Pope
Angus Deayton
Geoffrey Perkins
Richard Curtis
Jimmy Mulville
David Tyler
radio comedy
BBC Radio 4
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Oxford Revue
Angus Deayton
Geoffrey Perkins
Michael Fenton Stevens
Helen Atkinson-Wood
Philip Pope
Down Your Way
In at the Deep End
Crimewatch
alternative comedy
investigative journalism
Cambridge Five
Spycatcher
Zircon affair

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