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BBC Radio 7 (known until 4 October 2008 as BBC 7) is a British digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and children's programming nationally 24 hours a day. It is the principal broadcasting outlet for the BBC's vast archive of spoken-word entertainment, and was established specifically to enable the contents of the BBC Sound Archives to be broadcast. It is the most listened to BBC digital radio station, with 834,000 listening to it in the second quarter of 2009.
Programmes qualify for broadcast on Radio 7 if they are either three years old or more, or if they have previously been broadcast twice on their original station. However, even if a programme fulfils these criteria, there may be copyright issues preventing it from appearing on BBC Radio 7. However, programmes made exclusively for the station are exempt from this rule.
The schedule spans the decades, from The Goon Show (1950s) and Round the Horne (1960s), through Radio 2 favourites like The News Huddlines, Castle's On The Air and Listen to Les to recent Radio 4 shows such as Little Britain and Dead Ringers.
As a speech network, BBC Radio 7 was unique from the start in carrying no news, with the exception of a daily bulletin aimed at younger listeners presented by the Newsround team at 07:55 on weekdays. Adopting a very informal style of presentation, its continuity announcing team are associated with themed blocks of programming and are promoted as personalities & presenters in their own right. This was taken one step further on 14 February 2005, when an hour long strand of comedy was introduced between 08:00 and 09:00, initially presented by Richard Bacon, now with sister station 5 Live. Current regular presenters are Penny Haslam, Jim Lee, Etholle George, Joanna Pinnock, Alex Riley and Michaela Saunders, with cover presenters Alan Smith and Helen Aitken.
There is speculative fiction of various kinds, science fiction, fantasy or horror seven days a week in a regular slot called The 7th Dimension which is broadcast on Radio 7 twice a day, at 18:00 and midnight. In early 2007, this slot featured a series of original Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor.
Paul Merton launched the station at 20:00 on 15 December 2002 in a simulcast with Radio 4. It was originally codenamed Network Z.
The station's remit requires it to carry children's programming, which, until 2007, came in the form of two daily shows: The Little Toe Radio Show which was aimed at younger children and consisted of short serials, stories and rhymes that ran from 07:00 to 08:00 and was repeated at 15:00 to 16:00. Big names like Roger McGough were regular contributors; and The Big Toe Radio Show which aired from 16:00 to 18:00 and consisted of phone-ins, quizzes as well as stories intended for the 8+ age group. In February 2007 the schedule changed and Big Toe Books took over the 07:00 slot, but dropped the phone-ins and quizzes for children aged 8 and up while Cbeebies Radio replaced The Little Toe Show and now runs in a longer slot from 14:00 to 17:00. These programmes consist almost entirely of original material.
Radio 7 also broadcasts some original programming. Spanking New on Seven is a stand-up comedy programme, and they have broadcast the BBC New Comedy Competition, a competition for new stand up comedians. People who have taken part in BBC comedy competitions have gone on to have their own series on Radio 7, such as John-Luke Roberts with Spats and Miriam Elia with A Series of Psychotic Episodes. The Mitch Benn Music Show features comedy songs introduced by Mitch Benn. Colin and Fergus' Digi Radio is a comedy sketch show which ran for two series in 2005–2006. Serious About Comedy was a weekly show, now decommissioned, presented by Robin Ince where comedians and comedy critics discuss comedy television, radio, DVDs, and films from the last week. Tilt is a satirical sketch show which looks at the week's news of views other than the norm. Knocker is a sitcom about a market researcher, written by and starring Neil Edmond.
The flagship comedy section on Radio 7 is The Comedy Club, hosted by Alex Riley (Monday to Friday) and Penny Haslam (Sunday) . Pitched as "two hours of contemporary comedy", it is broadcast from 22:00 to midnight Sunday to Friday, and repeated between 03:00 and 05:00 the following morning. Comedy that has previously been commercially available as cassettes on the Laughing Stock label is also broadcast.
The network also features output from North America such as the American series Garrison Keillor's Radio Show and The Twilight Zone, and Stuart McLean's Vinyl Cafe from Canada.
BBC 7 won the Sony Radio Academy Award for Station Sound in 2003, was nominated for the Promo Award in 2004, and in 2005 received a Silver for the Short-Form award, plus nominations in the Speech Award and Digital Terrestrial Station Of The Year Award.
The station can be heard worldwide on the Internet, across northern Europe via the Astra 2A satellite (including via Freesat and Sky), and in the UK on DAB digital radio, cable television, IPTV and Freeview digital terrestrial television.
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BBC Radio 7 (known until 4 October 2008 as BBC 7) is a British digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and children's programming nationally 24 hours a day. It is the principal broadcasting outlet for the BBC's vast archive of spoken-word entertainment, and was established specifically to enable the contents of the BBC Sound Archives to be broadcast. It is the most listened to BBC digital radio station, with 834,000 listening to it in the second quarter of 2009.
Programmes qualify for broadcast on Radio 7 if they are either three years old or more, or if they have previously been broadcast twice on their original station. However, even if a programme fulfils these criteria, there may be copyright issues preventing it from appearing on BBC Radio 7. However, programmes made exclusively for the station are exempt from this rule.
The schedule spans the decades, from The Goon Show (1950s) and Round the Horne (1960s), through Radio 2 favourites like The News Huddlines, Castle's On The Air and Listen to Les to recent Radio 4 shows such as Little Britain and Dead Ringers.
As a speech network, BBC Radio 7 was unique from the start in carrying no news, with the exception of a daily bulletin aimed at younger listeners presented by the Newsround team at 07:55 on weekdays. Adopting a very informal style of presentation, its continuity announcing team are associated with themed blocks of programming and are promoted as personalities & presenters in their own right. This was taken one step further on 14 February 2005, when an hour long strand of comedy was introduced between 08:00 and 09:00, initially presented by Richard Bacon, now with sister station 5 Live. Current regular presenters are Penny Haslam, Jim Lee, Etholle George, Joanna Pinnock, Alex Riley and Michaela Saunders, with cover presenters Alan Smith and Helen Aitken.
There is speculative fiction of various kinds, science fiction, fantasy or horror seven days a week in a regular slot called The 7th Dimension which is broadcast on Radio 7 twice a day, at 18:00 and midnight. In early 2007, this slot featured a series of original Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor.
Paul Merton launched the station at 20:00 on 15 December 2002 in a simulcast with Radio 4. It was originally codenamed Network Z.
The station's remit requires it to carry children's programming, which, until 2007, came in the form of two daily shows: The Little Toe Radio Show which was aimed at younger children and consisted of short serials, stories and rhymes that ran from 07:00 to 08:00 and was repeated at 15:00 to 16:00. Big names like Roger McGough were regular contributors; and The Big Toe Radio Show which aired from 16:00 to 18:00 and consisted of phone-ins, quizzes as well as stories intended for the 8+ age group. In February 2007 the schedule changed and Big Toe Books took over the 07:00 slot, but dropped the phone-ins and quizzes for children aged 8 and up while Cbeebies Radio replaced The Little Toe Show and now runs in a longer slot from 14:00 to 17:00. These programmes consist almost entirely of original material.
Radio 7 also broadcasts some original programming. Spanking New on Seven is a stand-up comedy programme, and they have broadcast the BBC New Comedy Competition, a competition for new stand up comedians. People who have taken part in BBC comedy competitions have gone on to have their own series on Radio 7, such as John-Luke Roberts with Spats and Miriam Elia with A Series of Psychotic Episodes. The Mitch Benn Music Show features comedy songs introduced by Mitch Benn. Colin and Fergus' Digi Radio is a comedy sketch show which ran for two series in 2005–2006. Serious About Comedy was a weekly show, now decommissioned, presented by Robin Ince where comedians and comedy critics discuss comedy television, radio, DVDs, and films from the last week. Tilt is a satirical sketch show which looks at the week's news of views other than the norm. Knocker is a sitcom about a market researcher, written by and starring Neil Edmond.
The flagship comedy section on Radio 7 is The Comedy Club, hosted by Alex Riley (Monday to Friday) and Penny Haslam (Sunday) . Pitched as "two hours of contemporary comedy", it is broadcast from 22:00 to midnight Sunday to Friday, and repeated between 03:00 and 05:00 the following morning. Comedy that has previously been commercially available as cassettes on the Laughing Stock label is also broadcast.
The network also features output from North America such as the American series Garrison Keillor's Radio Show and The Twilight Zone, and Stuart McLean's Vinyl Cafe from Canada.
BBC 7 won the Sony Radio Academy Award for Station Sound in 2003, was nominated for the Promo Award in 2004, and in 2005 received a Silver for the Short-Form award, plus nominations in the Speech Award and Digital Terrestrial Station Of The Year Award.
The station can be heard worldwide on the Internet, across northern Europe via the Astra 2A satellite (including via Freesat and Sky), and in the UK on DAB digital radio, cable television, IPTV and Freeview digital terrestrial television.
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@nickdellow6073
Wonderful uploads of my favourite panel game. Thank you so much. I have a few JAMs on BBC Transcription Services LPs, including a nice clean stereo version of Episode 12 (9th May 1978), as uploaded here.
@SirWhig-esq.
After Kenneth, Derek is my favourite of the ‘Gang of Four’.
[❤Janet Brown & June Whitfield]
@nathelondon3719
Kenneth Williams was the publics favourite ( and is mine forever) RIP
@MrBazda
I chill out listening to these.
@stephenmerriman5620
Thanks again I really appreciate this.
@londonwestman1
This is - the first episode here with Sheila Hancock - is a difficult one. Yes, Kenneth Williams might be a genius - or very close to it - but in this episode all is not well. Some of his remarks cross the rather blurry line from playing a pastiche of a sexist to actually saying genuinely sexist things under the guise of there being some kind of comedic licence.
He's presented the Beeb with something of a challenge. With hindsight, they probably should have an extra round each week so that they can drop an entire round to the editing room floor. But I don't think they did have an extra round, and anyway it would have been quite difficult. Kenneth Williams keeps coming back to the issue in a rather unsettling way. In fact Nicholas Parsons doesn't do such a bad job of trying to rein him in. But it wasn't enough.
I think today, they might bin the whole episode. But it's right to keep it here. Sheila Hancock did make a fairly oblique reference to sexism in the show many years later and it's good to have an idea of what she was talking about.
She too handled the thing pretty well on the night. She would perhaps have been justified in stopping the recording, but that would have been a very major and expensive move as I think once stopped, the recording couldn't realistically be restarted.
@JohnDavis-ed5sg
This was 1978, when political correctness was just a lunatic dream, to grow like a cancer on free thought and free speech until now it is about to kill a society. Kenneth Williams clearly had little room for women in his life, was probably frightened of their mysteries, and anyone with a bit of common sense would just accept his stance as harmless exaggeration. Nowadays, common sense and proportion are entirely absent from the public arena on every subject, however, and only now are women beginning to see the price of artificial equality in their gradual realisation that the old values - family, home, stable relationships, a role in a self-ordered society - had lasting benefits not conferred by hook-ups, sparkling careers, 18th floor flats, and a cat.