Inevitable Groin

On tonight's programme, I'll be playing playing tracks by The Slute, The Slot, The Groan, Exploding Truss, The Blues Bastards, one from The Geckos, Hubert And His Pile-Tones, The Ear, The Nose, The Throat, the Cassowaries From Hell are here; and Inevitable Groin.

TMS Ask The Umpire with John Holder - Caught?

TMS Ask The Umpire with John Holder - Pitch Invasion

Alan Moore - Today Programme Thought For The Day 31st December 2011

For anyone who missed it.

Peter Sellers - So Little Time

From 1959's George Martin produced 'Songs For Swingin' Sellers' and also the source of my YouTube account name.
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Traditional values are much vaunted as this time of year so I like to have a reminder of them...

Christmas day at the workhouse

#terrywaitesez Not your usual bootleg - Terry Waite talking about his time as a hostage in Beriut from June 2001

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I've had harder gigs but none where I've seen an audience so engrossed throughout. And that was one man talking for two hours - please note modern content providers who feel people have the attention span of an immature gnat.

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#awesomewelles Orson Welles has a few issues with a Findus Foods script

Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis advertise their new movie, The Caddy (1953)

The Ballad Of Eskimo Nell - A quest for the definitive text.

*WARNING* this is about as bawdy as bawdy can be!

Probably recorded in the fifties or sixties. By cricket commentators
by the sound of it.

Authorship attributed to Noel Coward amongst others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Eskimo_Nell


Unfortunately the 5" reel of tape this came from wasn't in the best of
nick so I've cleaned the sound up as well as I could.

Sir Harry Secombe helpfully translates Je t'aime... moi non plus as recorded by Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg

The possibility has been raised that this might actually be Michael Bentine.