h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

>>William Franklyn fans can regularly find him reading the quotations on Radio 4's 'Quote, Unquote', should they so wish.<<

Yes, but why would we want to do that? Dreadful, dreadful programme. I'm with Humphrey Littleton, whose castigation of Quote Unqute is second only to his tirades of abuse of the Post Office. Has me in tears on the floor. And why is it that a series of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue seems to last about 3 weeks but QU and Just A Minute last about five years?

I've no idea, but Just a Minute, certainly deserves it.

Just a Minute over ISIHAC? Ho nonono!

parrferris,

"Can anyone tell me if it was Franklyn who voiced DM in the pilot episode of 'Dangermouse', though? It certainly sounds like him."

You are not alone in that belief:
http://www.tvtome.com/DangerMouse/
"William Franklyn - Voice Of Dangermouse(Pilot Episode Only)"

Sad to say, I never saw an episode of DM. My daughter was too small to work the large remote control of the video, and my wife didn't understand it.

fords,

"Just a Minute over ISIHAC? Ho nonono!"

Yeah, I only listen out of respect for the memory of Peter Jones .... but .... Stephen Fry and Tony Hawks have conspired with Paul Merton to make the show bearable, except for the chairperson.

Plaguesville, you can buy DM on DVD for a fiver out of most good music and video shops

I quite like 'the Chairperson', as anybody who can send himself up so much is OK by me. Remember the Renault 5 Nightmare Advert? Or 'Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door' by the Comic Strip, where they set out to assassinate Nicholas Parsons? The man doesn't take himself at all seriously.

I think it's a double bluff.

What, Nicholas Parsons really is a smug conceited selfsatisfied hoity-toity git??
Surely not!
Actually I can bear JAM but it ain't a patch on ISIHAC.
Curiously the same people turn up as guest team members on the latter - I'm sure Fry, Merton & Hawks have featured, but the real stars are Jeremy Hardy and Bill Bailey, with Sandy Toksvig a close third. Absolutely wonderful and not on the radio enough. Thank god for Radio 7 re-runs, just a shame they overlap with the Archers and I only hear the second half. Any Radio 7 programmers here?!

"Listen Again"...

of course!
But I'd have to get round to it. I'm not nearly but not quite a member of the Royal h2g2 Procrastination Society for nothing, you know!

whats taken so long beeb? oh well good news anyway im gonna make sure my work rota takes this in to account

Snack Seller walking in
"Peanuts for sale!

Peanuts for sale! "

Have you got any ice creams, Traveller?

Snack Seller calling for 'Ice Creams' in the freezer
"They talk back, does that matter? "

*Frantically tries to convert BST into CET so as not to miss it*

Travaller in Time on the watch
"for short some five hours from now! "

Traveller in Time on his head
"Is there a radio frequency for radio 4 ?

Otherwise I will have to open the internet on the kids computer to listen to radio 4 in the living room."

Traveller in Time tuning internet radio 4?_
"Two and a half hour to go . . . . "

92.4-94.6 fm for Radio 4, at 18:30 GMT.