Dead Ringers

Comedy/Humour
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Listening to Dead Ringers this lunchtime I was amused by a spoof on a tv programme about football (I have no interest and don’t watch it). The main, or only, guest was a rather thick sounding bloke with a very deep voice. I had no idea who this person was.

Just then the programme was interrupted by a sign saying that the signal had been lost.

Now I should explain here, on Saturdays I use Humax in order to make sure everything is ok to record my late night Danish thriller ‘The Killing’. The rest of the week I use the Manhattan because it is better and I don’t need to record.

I was annoyed but not surprised, the Humax is known for doing this from time to time so I just moved the channel one step and up came 5 Live broadcasting normally. Forgetting for a moment that I had changed channels I continued to listen to this excellent DR spoof. It was only when I looked up to change back that I realised that I had been listening to someone really interviewing Rio Ferdinand. :astonished: :laughing:

DR can be good and it can be less good, but this was brilliant. :rofl:

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Life imitating art?

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My problem with Dead Ringers used to be that most of the impersonations began by people saying whom they were impersonating. I assume this is because most members of the Cabinet are instantly forgettable non-entities

However, it’s not a problem anymore as out of exasperation at bias, I’ve stopped listening to R4 and indeed to the BBC (tho’ might sneak back for recordings of Bragg’s In our Time).

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DR is not as good as it used to be, and I didn’t realise this was on, just happened to be here, but I couldn’t give up R4, it is on all day long, sometimes in the background though. In Our Time I like as long as it is a subject I am interested in, often it is not.

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I think that is the point of In our Time. It covers such a broad base of subjects and gives you an insight into something you might never have come across before.

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Ah ha, but what of those things you have come across before, indeed might have good knowledge of, but do not find interesting? :wink: :slightly_smiling_face: