You couldn't make it up
A new series of the excellent phone-in comedy Down the Line started last week. This time Radio 4 are making no attempt to conceal that it's a spoof phone-in show, unlike the first series which was aired with no warning or explanation, causing more than a few calls of complaint to the BBC from Enraged of Tumbridge Wells!
Actually, the reason that the Fast Show crew have given up pretending that Gary Bellamy's callers are fictional is probably that compared to many real life callers to radio phone-ins, they're no more ridiculous.
Take for example this snatch of Jeremy Vine's show that I caught at lunch time. They were debating the morality of this news story about a couple who want a posthumous child for their dead son via impregnating a woman he never met.
A caller phoned in to support them, saying:
"If I died tomorrow, I'd want my wife to take my liver, kidneys, heart, etcetera, and put them into someone else. If that's okay, why not sperm?"
Actually, the reason that the Fast Show crew have given up pretending that Gary Bellamy's callers are fictional is probably that compared to many real life callers to radio phone-ins, they're no more ridiculous.
Take for example this snatch of Jeremy Vine's show that I caught at lunch time. They were debating the morality of this news story about a couple who want a posthumous child for their dead son via impregnating a woman he never met.
A caller phoned in to support them, saying:
"If I died tomorrow, I'd want my wife to take my liver, kidneys, heart, etcetera, and put them into someone else. If that's okay, why not sperm?"
...A quick google and they're all archived here - how about that!
Do check out I'm 89 and Millenium Dome (two of my favourites - both from the album Thermos Explorer) - the mysteries of pinnies and washing dollies explained!
Again, the mashup isn't entirely dissimilar from the real calls you get on local radio. :-)
Though for some reason I didn't yesterday reach for the off button as quickly as usual and heard, in response to the discussion on the church and adoption row, one female caller indicate that a lesbian couple would be ok but insinuate that a gay couple would be almost certain to abuse the child.
As I was at work I managed to restrain myself from shouting at the radio.
to be honest, I'd be more worried about leaving my child with a Catholic Priest than with a gay couple....
/me waits for the inevitable complaint from and passing catholic... :-p
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