The over 30s answer to Blue Peter made a return to our screens tonight although Adrian Chiles was stranded in Miami, leaving Christine Bleakley to present the show on her own. Pretty much the usual bog standard stuff although later this week they've got Robin Gibb making a guest appearance, encouraging viewers to send in their own video renditions of Bee Gees tunes.
Which reminds me that I've not seen Barry on television for a long while although that's probably because he looked the most offended when the band appeared on
Clive Anderson's chat show in 1997 when he made a dodgy joke about the band's former name "Le Tosseurs".
Apart from that incident the trio were up for any other sort of parody
such as this example when DJ Howard Stern organised a telethon to raise money
for the re-attachment of John Wayne Bobbitt's penis, and the Bee Gees were amongst the stars who made appeals to raise awarness, with an amusing version of one of their original hits.
The clip was shown by Chris Tarrant on "Tarrant On TV" where he described the concept of a telethon as "Fifteen minutes of entertainment squeezed into 24 hours".
Ironically on the first ITV Telethon in 1988 the Tiswas cast reunited as part of the fundraising although it was also the final televised appearance of the team from its successor "Number 73" or "7T3" as it was now known.
With Sundays mornings now prioritised by Robbie Vincent on Jazz FM, I have to make sure I hear the Monday night comedy on Radio 4 on it's original transmission, with
Just A Minute currently filling the slot.
Tonight's show featured Paul Merton, Graham Norton, Shappi Khorsandi who I met at a comedy night at the Undercroft, and Charles Collingwood who is known to Radio 4 listeners as Brian Aldridge in the Archers but more familiar to me as the scorer on
Telly Addicts with Noel Edmonds.
One of the subjects they had to talk about was "Voiceovers" where Paul Merton made a reference to the late Bill Mitchell who's voice was heard on many commercial radio stations during the 70s and early 80s, as well as on Robbie Vincent's classic liner
"If It Moves, Funk It".
A selection of his voice work can be heard here with examples for Capital Radio and that above line but done for erstwhile jingle collector Pete Wilson.
I remember a story told by Aston McNeil that at Sheffield's Radio Hallam in the early 80s, one of the presenters just starting didn't have a liner from Bill so he spent the night drinking and smoking heavilly in order to record one himself by putting on his voice!
Not long to go before I head for the Undercroft after 9pm and I'm hoping to see a few familiar faces in addition to Stewart who will be pulling the pints.
It should be good fun.
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