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- Saturday Live is on BBC Radio 4, Sat 9-10am
Saturday Live is a place on Radio 4 where you are welcome to jump in and join us - or to simply lie on the side and listen. It's full of stuff that matters.
You know what? The best thing you can do is just to give us a listen...
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- Newsletter 19th November 2009
Hello peoples,
I hope, as ever, that this finds you well.
I know that many of you enjoyed last week’s studio guest star enormously – and it was a treat for me too – we shall ask the wonderful William Boyd back in 2010. As your emails revealed, many of you love his books because of the way he manages to impart wisdom in the midst of telling a cracking story. I’m sure I’m not alone in having quoted several of his best lines, metaphors and aphorisms over the years. I’m also sure that sometimes I may not have attributed them to him. I doubt if it has been a deliberate attempt to nick his thought patterns - it might just be that after a while I have omitted to say ‘I read this fantastic line in a William Boyd novel the other day....’ before quoting whatever nugget it was. And this week on the show we are going to talk about the same kind of thing happening in the world of comedy.
Does a joke always belong to the person who told it first? When does it become the property of all of the people who laugh at it and go on to retell it? How much is a good one liner worth and if one comedian can make you laugh with a punchline, but another one can’t, then whose line is it anyway? Nick Wilty is a comedy writer and performer and we’re going to pose all of these questions to him.
We also meet a man who had a stroke when he was just 29 – before that he spoke with a strong Brummie accent – he had to teach himself to speak all over again and found that he had a strange French accent, that then slipped into a Russian accent and is now hovering somewhere over Eastern Europe.
The actor Robert Lindsay is our studio guest star, the wonderful Shirley Williams shares her Inheritance Tracks with us and John O’Farrell sneaks around with JP and tells him about his Secret Life.
It’s nice to be meeting so many of you on Facebook – we aim to make our page brighter and better with every week passing. Don’t forget that if you want a lifelong reminder of our show so far you can bid for our Guest Book, in aid of Children in Need…just copy and past this link:
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Thankyou to all of you who are kind enough to ask about the wellbeing of the under three foots in the Glover-Jones household. They are doing fine. Hector is on a learning curve right now – he has been studying Diwali and Guys Fawkes night over the last couple of weeks. He reported back to me that ‘Guy Fawkes filled the washing machine with powder to blow up all the houses, but the Hindus came along and saved everybody’.
I keep telling him that everything gets clearer the more you learn in life. I’m not so sure though, but do treat Saturday Live as the windscreen wipers on your rain soaked world and join us on Saturday morning if you can.
xfi
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