[peel] John Peel - It makes me laugh 16 May 1981 - Download

[Eddie Duffy]

Thanks again, Bill. And I have to say I agree with you on Viv and Monty 
being the highlights here. The other passages, good as they may have 
been on paper, suffered from having to be read out by the Radio 4 
voiceover "artistes" of the day. Insufferably over-the-top Bee-Bee-See 
voices for anything that has the sniff of "highbrow literature" about 
it, and "comedy" regional accents adopted whenever the author happens to 
have had the temerity to have been born outside Knightsbridge. Eminently 
slappable, the pair of 'em.

On a related point, I've never really like Peel reading his own words. I 
love his natural speech, and his writing (and am looking forward to The 
Olivetti Chronicles). But for some reason he always loses something when 
reading out stuff he's written himself. Even his voiceover stuff comes 
across better. Can't quite explain it but the magic is lost somewhere.

billfromnorthwales wrote:
>
> Here is a BBC Radio 4 programme from, 16-5-81 which was part of a
> series.
>
> This week it's music loving Johnny Plee, who tells us what makes him
> laugh.
>
> This was recorded on Saturday 16th May 1981 at 11:15 AM. I let the tape
> roll before and after, so you can time warp if you want.
> I cut out the religeous sermon programme before, though
>
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> No belly laughs by a long way, and listening to the first half made me
> realise the gulf betwewen the public school JP went to, and the
> Secondary Modern I fell out of.
>
> We were not in the same universe of humour influences, let alone the
> same planet.
>
> Pan can get his coat and leave, before he gets a smack in the face.
>
> However, it picks up when Viv and Monty come along.
>
> You know, you never know what you are going to get, and you don't
> always get what you want, but what you do get is always surprising.
>
> Well, if he can say that about Mark E Smith, I can say it about Peel.
>
> Esoteric, or I'm a Greek.
>
> (now who did he say that about?)
>
> Bill
>
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