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As the days get longer, live lambing is on the TV (yeah we weren’t really a fan either), and April paints draws ever closer, it must be time for something big.
No, much bigger than that. Massive in fact. HUGE!
ThornburyFM is no more!
It’s died, and gone to community radio station heaven, never to be heard again.
We’ve cried, sent flowers and condolence cards, and Mr Lettuce did a personal reading, stood…well….umm…err…PLACED upon the Thornbury pump.
However, as when all mob bosses pass on, a young pretender has walked into the joint and claimed the studio equipment as its own. Even the microphone windshields, and that teddy bear that seemingly doesn’t belong to anyone. That collective, is known as GlossFM.
Website: www.glossfm.org
Twitter: @glossfm
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GlossFM is all new, bigger, stronger, faster, better than ever bef…oh..ok – they’ve just changed their name to show that the station now broadcasts to a much larger area than just Thornbury. You can now listen from Stoke Gifford to Wanswell. From Chepstow to Chipping Sodbury.
Ben, James and Stephen are all back, 8-10pm on Wednesdays, starting from 21st April 2010, with another 4-part series of The Music and Waffle Show. Please listen.
Ben’s lost a Weetabix. But where is it?
We put that question to our listeners.
“HipHop Classics” – our feature where we play a classic hip hop record that we get from the safe – isn’t happening this time, because the safe is jammed shut. We’ve booked an engineer, but they’re not going to get here in time. What the hell are we going to do instead?
Donald McDonald Donald is back with all the latest news regarding big bloggers, the world’s best facials, and celebrities spotted locally.
Ben’s been to Chippenham this week. His girlfriend’s sister owns a house that is opposite the one where Ben grew up. Spooky.
Still, he didn’t have as bad a time in Chippenham as James did last time he was there.
We’ve had some constructive criticism regarding several parts of last week’s show. Always the professionals, we debate this live on air, and Stephen donates some money to charity.
Jim Borehamwood is back with a preview of another club banger. You heard it here first.
We round off with Dr Ben who phoned in from LA. He’s got some helpful advice for a listener.
Podcast Timings
00:00 – Intro, and “previously”
02:33 – Weetabix, and what’s on this show?
05:01 – Chippenham, spooky, BIG criticism of the show,
11:23 – Donald McDonald Donald
15:36 – Our profiles, James’ spooky coincidence down under
18:24 – The station name change, we start the listener phone in, and Will Ferrell
23:01 – HipHop Classics’ replacement, and James gropes Stephen
26:37 – Listener responses to our question,
28:20 – Start of second live hour, what’s left in the show, shopping, christmas cards and Leona Lewis
31:49 – More Leona Lewis, glamour models, and diets,
35:20 – Jim Borehamwood, and Stephen donates some money,
41:40 – More listener coincidences, Mika gets bitten in the eye,
44:47 – James sits down, tells everyone how to get into us, and Ben plays an exclusive remix he’s made on FM radio for the first time ever,
46:48 – Mariah Carey or James. Which is the bigger diva?
49:22 – Dr Ben, goodbyes, and who was on after us, when we did this live?
57:06 – END
Where did James go on his week off? Turns out he’s been hanging out with the old-money rich folk.
Turns out that Belle de Jour in real life, is a doctor working in Bristol. Well done us, for bagging a big celebrity.
James and Stephen clearly weren’t that bothered, as they kept interrupting Ben while he was talking about it, but we asked our listeners, who they would be, if they could be anybody from a book/film or TV show.
Donald McDonald has some massive local news about a new local currency, hacking, and religious figures showing up in fried breakfasts.
Stephen sends Ben off to find a record for HipHop Classics, but Ben isn’t able to get it after all. He did find a massive wheel in the car park though.
We also forgot to play the opening jingle at the start, but we don’t think anyone noticed.
What’s the big new word of the year? Some etymologists have got together, to decide.
Talking of things people are no longer using in general society, whatever happened to Jedward dolls?
Poor pelicans. They swoop, and get the blame for major car crashes.
Dr Ben phones in to help a listener with their tricky love problem, but Stephen doesn’t think much to the great doctor’s methods.
Podcast timings
00:00 – Intro, and “previously”
02:37 – James’ week off, and what’s on this show?
05:10 – Jack Penate facts, Belle de Jour, and today’s listener phone-in
08:52 – Donald McDonald Donald
12:53 – Listener suggestions on our phone-in
14:09 – HipHop Classics
17:10 – Start of the second BIG hour, what’s left in the show?
18:53 – Etymology, and we put our second question to the listeners
24:13 – Jim Borehamwood,
30:26 – Listener replies re action figures
32:17 – Bugatti Veyron crash story
34:50 – Dr Ben
42:04 – END, goodbyes, and the new name of the new station?
We started this show with some problems.
First, Stephen deafening the entire audience, and everyone in the studio.
And his £2,000 fake-sheepskin coat has been ruined in the rain. Apparently.
Then we all start clapping like Steve Wright’s gang.
James has some time off from his main job, and he’s worried he’ll just waste it, like Stephen and Ben have been doing for the last few months.
When a CD player refuses to play a disc live on-air, Ben and James jump to the defence of Stephen’s choice of CDs. Touching, really.
Donald McDonald brings you all the latest local news, including stories about police wrongdoing, big lottery winners, and driving tests.
There’s a feature called Hip Hop Classics this week. Unfortunately, Ben has to go and get the CD from the vault, during the feature.*
*And the song has also been cut from the podcast.
Jim Borehamwood has come in to tell us about the biggest club bangers right now.
And to give a shout out to two other presenters on the station.
There has been some ridiculously big lottery wins this week.
But what would you buy if you won a stupidly huge amount of money?
Breast implants? Panties? A house?
Ben wants to play a Kirsty MacColl remix. Sadly, we’ve only got an old classic one we’ve played before.
Dr Ben phones in from LA (the American one – not Long Ashton) to help with another listener problem. Despite postal strikes, listener letters are somehow still getting to us.
Podcast Timings
00:00 – Intro, previously on the show, and what’s on the show?
05:53 – Radiohead, James’ free time, and Stephen’s problematic CD
10:01 – Matchstick fines, and listener suggestion (singular) about James’ time
13:30 – Donald McDonald Donald
17:50 – James’ vertical challenges, and another listener suggestion re his time off
19:35 – Hip Hop Classics and more suggestions for James’ time off
24:28 – What’s left in the show?
27:38 – Big huge massive news, and what would you do it you won millions?
32:51 – Jim Borehamwood
38:44 – Listener suggestions on spending millions, and Ben wants to play Kirsty MacColl,
42:31 – Kirsty MacColl – New England, remix, and more listener suggestions of ways to spend millions
49:28 – Dr Ben.
56:39 – Jaffa Cakes, Andy Scott-Lee, Peter Andre, and goodbye.
Since we started podcasting our hospital radio shows online a few years ago, it has been up to Ben to record/edit/upload them.
Eagle-eared (is that even a correct term?) listeners might have noticed, that lately there hasn’t been shows updated online quite as regularly as there once was.
This is because Ben has got himself a job working nights in a petrol station, and doesn’t have enough time to do that, the show and everything else he has to do in general life.
Which is why…. this is dedicated after 8.5 years, Ben has decided not to continue doing Requestline on a Thursday anymore. He’d rather not do it, if he can’t put the proper amount of effort into making it a good show.
For the sickly in hospital, Requestline will still continue. It’ll still go out as normal every Thursday at 8.30pm on the Hospedia (aka Patientline) bedside radio units.
However, as Ben won’t be there, it won’t be recorded or edited, and there won’t be an online podcast version.
Good news though – the Music and Waffle Show is live every Wednesday night at 8pm, on www.thornburyfm.org for the rest of November.
After that, who knows what the future might hold?
Next year could be the greatest year of our lives. Staaaaaay close to me, whooaaaaa.
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