Bittersweet

posted by Rob on February 20, 2010 07:26 AM

Well, in radio terms, the almost unthinkable has happened. A new series of Fags, Mags and Bags has started and I've already missed a week. It's my favourite thing on radio, so that's quite a blow. BBC iPlayer will let me grab episode 2, but episode 1 is already lost to the ether. 10 days after broadcast the wavefront of the program will be around 260 billion kilometers from Earth, well beyond the orbit of Pluto. My chances of getting a radio and a tape recorder out there in order to record the programme are slim. So unless the BBC rebroadcasts it, or someone else on planet Earth decides to share their copy, I'll have to make do with the other five episodes of this series. But still, five episodes of radio comedy gold is cause for celebration. Unless something else goes wrong...

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Comments: 4


Rob, Rob, Rob.

Fags, Mags and Bags is all very well but there is something much better on R4 (not at the moment, though, I'm afraid).

Count Arthur Strong.

Absolutely brilliant. Far better than FM&B. We love it.


Technically, of course, you'd have to exceed the speed of light to get your tape recorder ahead of the currently expanding wavefront of Episode 1. Exceeding "c" is, of course, generally not approved of (unless Capt. Picard stops by).


Have put episode one in the Onix Central DropBox for you to grab - Had been set on Radioshift to record.


This one is sure to be a radio hit, it's great.

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