Doctor Who was on form tonight with an episode written by Russell T Davies who's recieved an OBE in the Queen's birthday honours. This weeks episode involved the Doctor and a set of people trapped on a plane on the Planet Midnight, where one of the characters got caught in a daze which resulted in her repeating everything that everyone said and then speaking at exactly the same time as everyone else.
Bizarre but entertaining as always.
Next week Billie Piper makes a return as Rose after a few short appearances throughout the series in a plot which has been kept underwraps for a while but looks set to be interesting.
Beforehand there was a Weakest Link special involving Blue Peter presenters past and present such as John Noakes, Janet Ellis, Peter Purves, Simon Groom as well as a few of the more recent presenters such as Zoe Salmon and Andy Akinwolere.
John Noakes was once again reduced to tears when Anne Robinson asked him about
Shep dying and Simon Groom once again got some stick about when he had to do a feature on two door knockers which prompted the line
"what a beautiful pair of knockers".
As the programme's celebrating 50 years this year this was a more than appropriate enough reunion and very entertaining at the least.
I'm very near the end of my look back of Refresher Week 2008 where amongst the other shows on offer on the Friday were Matt and Rupert with another "Challenge" based feature "Challenge Deidre" which made use of the "Challenge Anneka" theme
to introduce it.
This feature however involved Matt trying to give his advice to problems written in the Dear Deirdre section of a popular newspaper.
The show wasn't really the same as it was minus producer James who I'd say adds the wit amongst the pairs dry banter but luckily I've got a few of their podcasts which they did later on in the semester and won them the award for "Best Podcast" at this years awards.
Goodlass and Marshall were also in action where Ross Tilley was on phone to the pair from the O2 Arena waiting to see the Spice Girls where he was given the tag "Big Spice" with rather embarrasing results.
I was then all set to do my first soul show of the year but it didn't really go as to plan due to my CD mistracking at the beginning of the show and the radio rooms being completely dead with the exception of the first years editing the podcasts for that week meaning that they couldn't actually hear the show which was discouraging.
Even Caroline who got to do a two hour long Back To The Future show later on was better than me where she played a selection of her favourite tunes from 2007.
Something I could have done if I'd put enough effort into it and I feel that I need to include a few more newer tracks on the show this year.
Listening back to her show I learnt that Kate Nash's boyfriend is Ryan Jarman from the Cribs who is better known to me for his rather colourful appearances on Never Mind The Buzzcocks including one where he claimed to have invented Live 8.
If I remember correctly I went home that weekend coming back on the Sunday and didn't really get any better for quite a while after that. It probably explains the lack of blog posts during January and Feburary of this year.
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