2 posts tagged “the now show”
I quite enjoy BBC Radio 4's The Now Show because their jokes are often different from the sort of thing you hear elsewhere else. This week I was pleased to hear Robin Ince get a big laugh with a Dickens joke but my favourite part was Mitch Benn's musical theme for human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell.
It was a work of genius and well worth a couple of listens, even if only for the fantastic line "He doesn't mince his words; he doesn't mince at all."
If you're quick you can find it about 24 minutes into the podcast of the show, which is available for download for a few days, here.
Not many people know this but I was used to work on a farm. Not for long. In fact, just just for an hour or two, really. I helped stock a few sheds with day-old baby chickens that would be on a sanitary towel and under wrap in a chiller cabinet six weeks later. This is what they look like when they're a day old.
We all know what they look like at the other end.
Which is why I was so happy to hear Marcus Brigstocke's rant about chicken on this evening's Now Show. (~18 minutes in). It was superbly offensive but made a point that really needs making. It's more important to eat a small amount of something that tasty that you made yourself than to gorge on plastic-wrapped packet food. I'm glad I was eating a crispy, tart apple while I listened.
I loved the beard joke, too.
Hurry and download it. It's a topical show and the MP3 will disappear in a week if it's not picked up an archived by the wonderful Speechification blog.
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I published and straight away noticed this great post from penguinmad. I am incredibly jealous. I always wanted to keep chickens when I was a kid but my parents didn't let me because we had so many foxes in the garden. Now I live in a 5th floor apartment I can't keep chickens.
