Radio 4 as an antidote to Twitter panel games
For the last few months there have been a rash of quite ancient comedy parlour games being where groups of friends devise, in 140 characters of course, punnery and wordplay around film and tv titles. Just in the last month (eg: The Italian Jobless), (eg: You've Got Chain Mail) have had their moment in the sun. In response a small group of Radio 4 fans including a lot of the Twitter regulars working here have had minutes of fun of an evening adapting these memes to our favourite national speech network; CreditCrunchRadio4 spawned for example the rather bleak The Pip. My best attempt at medievalradio4 was You and Your Serf (sorry). However none so far had generated more than a brief flurry of interest.
But then Radio 4 announcer; found herself on a train journey home yesterday evening was bored and ...
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Jem Stone is Communities Executive, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Audio & Music Interactive.