BUG OUT – Yashviney (8/1/12)
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1:13:19 – Entertainium by the ton!! Â The Magic Island!! Â Doc Sleaze helps with Cricket!! Â Music from 8 Bit Betty: Â Cut and Paste / A Quick Hello (Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivs)!! Â The Soulful Sounds of Stephen Jules Rubin Ranting!! Â Classic episode of Quiet Please – ‘Inquest’!! Â Mr F Le Mur!! Â PQ Ribber is in charge (a sure sign of utter chaos)!!
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Released August 2012, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and often clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and recombinant productions, thereof.
Glad to have clarified the cricket situation for you (although I suspect I confused myself in the process).
The ‘political incorectness’ of old pop culture like the Greyfriars stories is, I think, one of those things we just have to accept about the past – it was different and popular attitudes were different then. No matter how offensive some of the racial epithets they used or attitudes displayed might seem to us now, we cannot falsify the past. These stories are an artefact of their era and, as such, give us a fascinating insight into how much attitudes have changed.
On the subject of the Greyfriars stories, whilst searching for something else entirely on archive.org, I stumbled across a page devoted to Billy Bunter-related recordings. I’m sure you are way ahead of me and have already listened to them, but if you haven’t, they are at http://archive.org/details/Billy_Bunter. Whilst the dramatisations are, I’m sure, still in copyright (I think they’re 1980s and 90s BBC productions), the bulk of the recordings are reminisences by Charles Hamilton (aka ‘Frank Richards’) himself, made prior to his death in 1961, so might well be in the public domain. Those I’ve listened to are pretty interesting.
Comment by Doc Sleaze — August 6, 2012 @ 3:39 pm
Thanks!! Somehow I had missed this completely. Am up to the 27th of 1380 ‘novels’ (theyre shorter than a real book), and fascinated by the material.
Comment by PQ Ribber — August 6, 2012 @ 4:02 pm