Selected & edited by Mark B. Thanks for Jason at The Shrine, Percy Clapham (where more of the cantankerous Bob Staunton can be found) & AudioClick et al, for hosting original clips.
Tags: BBC Southern Counties, bob staunton, fight, on air punch up
Selected & edited by Mark B. Thanks for Jason at The Shrine, Percy Clapham (where more of the cantankerous Bob Staunton can be found) & AudioClick et al, for hosting original clips.
Tags: BBC Southern Counties, bob staunton, fight, on air punch up
December 17, 2009 at 7:59 am |
I suspect a great number of listeners guessed the true nature of Staunton quite early on in his SCR career. Mind you, those listeners weren’t the ones he was designed to bait…!
December 17, 2009 at 8:11 am |
I think you could detect my voice and accent easily enough. He ran for a year though.
I once considered him applying for a slot with TalkSport.
December 17, 2009 at 4:38 pm |
I only recently heard the bob Staunton and was fooled by the fight,I think Alison played it really well to pull it off.when I found out I could here the tommy in the first few shows but the character was tight after that in fact I think the e4 voice over man has nicked the voice! Gotta say it is genius radio and sundeep is the ultimate character(hello bob) and Alison does a superb job there too-what with this and the time you tricked the haters with the famous silent trick you are a genius and bit of a social anarchist-legend!
December 17, 2009 at 9:32 am |
Ha, ha, ha…
Well staged Tommy! You sounded like you were spitting teeth! If I didn’t know any better, I’d think it was a pantomime!!!
Was the elderly lady for real or was she part of the act?
Bob Staunton and you should be an act on “Live at the Apollo!”
Very entertaining…
December 17, 2009 at 10:16 am |
Yes, just to be clear, only 3 of the 4 voices you hear are real.
December 17, 2009 at 11:56 am |
Tommy, just out of interest, I listened to your audio for the second time and I started to think that there was a bit of clever editing going on with the elderly lady, which was a recording from a previous show of yours!!
Am I correct?
December 17, 2009 at 12:00 pm |
Monique – nope, that cantankerous lady did call in that evening, as far as I know, but she was actually the aforementioned travel girl affecting a more mature, raspy, voice ; )
Ok, maybe not.
-Mark
December 17, 2009 at 8:24 pm |
So Mark, I’m intrigued to know which one of the four voices was fake?
Have a Merry Christmas to you and yours
Monique
December 20, 2009 at 10:42 am
Aw c’mon Monique, you must know which one is a fiction?
December 20, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Am I missing something here cause I haven’t got a clue? As a guess, is it when you come into the studio demanding Bob to get off your chair?
I’ve only bothered with your blog – never been on others. I am, after-all, a follower of you! Anyhow, I haven’t got time for other blogs – as it is, you’re already a distraction, but an interesting one or else I wouldn’t be here!! It would be a shame if you should remove your blog, but if you did, I would get more art work done…
I think both you & Bob should definitely send out an audition tape to a few BBC stations…you never know until you try…!!
Good luck with that.
Monique
December 18, 2009 at 12:39 am |
Staunton is/was a legend. There was always one really big guffaw, several titters and at least one sharp intake of breath in the Play Radio shows. Top-shelf entertainment.
December 20, 2009 at 10:44 am |
Should Bob send out an audition tape to a few BBC stations?
December 20, 2009 at 9:41 pm
I think yes, but the audition tape and the ensuing replies should be posted here. Names blanked, of course… =D
December 18, 2009 at 7:21 am |
thanks for sharing, that is one beautiful piece of radio right there ^_^
December 18, 2009 at 8:37 am |
Funny, when I do these things I always feel it could have been a lot better, but listening back the first time for years I was pleased. Then I listened again and heard all the things I could have done a bit better. Is it the same for everyone with their work?
December 18, 2009 at 9:13 am
Yes, I always seem to have a narrower view when in the creative process…..focus? It’s only when you come back to something with an open mind and a fresh ear that you see it from other perspectives.
However I think there is something charming about the small flaws we make or in this case being able to tell it’s not real….you laugh along with it / feel part of it more than you can with something done with clinical execution.
For me it’s knowing how someone did something that makes you appreciate how good it is…
December 18, 2009 at 9:21 am
Tommy – we’re all our own worst critic! I’d like to meet someone who isn’t… it’s how we progress and go forward!
I asked Mark which one of the voices was fake and still haven’t had an answer?
December 18, 2009 at 6:20 pm |
I find that all the time, especially when applied to something creative or artistic. I’ve spent so much time re-writing music that I’m recording, constantly going back and changing the mix or recording new parts.
I’d say that being self-critical or revisiting past work for lessons learned can be one of the best ways to be inspired. Great ideas can be found by looking at the things you didn’t do, or the things you could have done in a different way.
I think that it’s one of the key defining things about being a better human being though, the need to improve and change. On a micro and macro level it’s the best way to evolve the species.
December 19, 2009 at 1:14 pm |
They can’t get enough of archive Boyd on the LBC Audio Advent Calender, here you are again on day 19: http://www.lbc.co.uk/19th-december—tommy-boyds-nightline-jingle-16904
December 20, 2009 at 9:43 pm |
You would think that would tip them off to something, wouldn’t you?
December 19, 2009 at 11:10 pm |
Hi tommy,not having worked for a long time I find it hard to comment,I’ve mostly had rubbish jobs that I cared little for working for bosses who I cared even less about(you may have come across this particular breed of man, a product of promotion on the grounds of most coffees bought for the boss and for want of a better phrase ass kissing!)
yet still I have always found times when would get stuck right in and set and break targets,push myself to the limit and be the top man just to prove I could do it.it must be an unbuilt pride thing but I do wonder what I could achieve if I was working for and with people who had maybe read a book in their lives,travelled or didn’t have extra fingers( an east Anglian thing)
in conclusion”gis a job”!