Oct. 11th, 2006

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In the context of 'stuff like this just happens to me', we've been offered our own radio show. It's on a net-based radio station, 'broadcasting' in the UK and the US (and anywhere else, for that matter - their webmaster is based in Chile).

It's being set up by a guy who wants to establish Glastonbury Radio - he already runs a stream of other radio stations and this show will be specifically esoteric. The first programme will probably go out around midnight in early December and run once a week. Working title is the Witching Hour, which is highly unoriginal but, OTOH, does what it says on the tin.

I'll probably be doing the brunt of the first show because one half of us can't talk very well at the moment, but more as and when - they still need funding, so we may find that the project gets abruptly curtailed.

It's an odd thing to happen - I am a radio listener (I listen to far more radio than I watch TV) and have done a reasonable amount of it over the years, for both local and national radio, but I've never considered having my own show. (For someone with a degree in AI, I am such a non-tech head that I still call it the 'wireless.') The people involved have been chasing us, however. So why not?

It'll probably be like a broadcast version of this LJ, but without added Dog.
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A friend of ours cracked me up last night during a discussion on having limited funds - he went through a skint period some years ago and rather than ignore his utility bills, sent everyone a letter which read:

'Due to insufficient funds, we cannot pay electricity/water/gas/council tax all together this month and so you - yes, you! - have been entered in our household lottery. Unfortunately, this week, you have not been successful, but stay tuned! You might be our lucky winner next week!'

He got a call back from British Gas to say that they hadn't laughed so much in weeks and was there any way they could help him out with a modified payment scheme?

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