Current favourite jokes

[Bryn]

I do not think this listings mess was intended to be a joke, but it is one:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jvhx

[oddoneout]

I do not think this listings mess was intended to be a joke, but it is one:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jvhx

Not so much 'all the right notes...' as 'all the right pieces - just in the wrong concert'?

[Bryn]

Not so much 'all the right notes...' as 'all the right pieces - just in the wrong concert'?

The 'upside' is that both the concert and the commercial recordings in the appended list may be listened to via that page.

[Dave2002]

The 'upside' is that both the concert and the commercial recordings in the appended list may be listened to via that page.

When are they going to put back the markers in the time line which used to be present in the earlier radio players, so that we can identify at least the start of each piece, or preferably each movement?

Another case of earlier versions were an improvement on the latest! Doesn't anybody at the BBC read these comments, and ACT on them?

[Bryn]

On Dead Ringers on BBCR4 this weekend:
'And now let's go over to Peterborough and get reaction to the result. Ann Widdicombe, what do you think of the result of the By-election?'
'I think it's ridiculous. Why can't we just have a straight election?'

Re Dead Ringers, tonight's seems very fine. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jx56

[MrGongGong]

I'm I right in thinking the statue of Winston Churchill has been replaced by one of Boris Johnson hiding in a fridge?

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm I right in thinking the statue of Winston Churchill has been replaced by one of Boris Johnson hiding in a fridge?
I think that's one of those new pop-up pavement toilets, Gomgers.

I think that's one of those new pop-up pavement toilets, Gongers. Seen from behind.

[Edgy 2]

[LMcD]

I'm I right in thinking the statue of Winston Churchill has been replaced by one of Boris Johnson hiding in a fridge?

It's actually a key scene in the latest Netflix movie- '2021 A Further Space Oddity - The Revenge Of The Monolith'

[johncorrigan]

I'm I right in thinking the statue of Winston Churchill has been replaced by one of Boris Johnson hiding in a fridge?

His darkest hour!

[johncorrigan]

Thought I'd break the habit of a lunchtime and do a bit of DIY. So I phoned B&Q to check they were open. While I was on I asked, 'What size is the queue?' 'Same size as the B,' came the reply.

[Padraig]

Thought I'd break the habit of a lunchtime and do a bit of DIY. So I phoned B&Q to check they were open. While I was on I asked, 'What size is the queue?' 'Same size as the B,' came the reply.

Sorry John. I won't stand for that.

[johncorrigan]

Sorry John. I won't stand for that.

What, Padraig? The Queue?

[Serial_Apologist]

What, Padraig? The Queue?

Standing in line?

[ardcarp]

Re Dead Ringers, tonight's seems very fine. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jx56

Best bit for me was the send-up of Auden/Britten 'Night Train'. Brilliant.