A great man once said: “If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer”. That was Clement Freud: Liberal MP, ‘celebrity chef’ over half a century before the term was coined, TV star, night club owner and an award winning culinary journalist. He was [...]
Dastardly, pastry-faced, bedragel-toothed, rancid mawed Kilimanjaro ‘hero’ (if you can call being virtually dragged up by a dozen sherpas ‘heroic’) Chris Moyles has been rapped on the knuckles by Ofcom for taking the micky out of our poor Will Young on the the singer’s 30th birthday. Moyles apparently changed some lyrics in Leave Right Now [...]
I was recently offended when the makers of Lesbian Vampire Killers took a steaming dump on my love of horror and films in general and then tried to sell it back to me as entertainment. Wound me right up it did and, as a man who’s proud of his hard earned cheese threshold, that takes [...]
Now & then I hear something that makes me disappointed with BBC Radio 5 Live all over again. This morning it was a story about child neglect (as opposed to abuse) and how the latest poll from the charity ‘Action for Children’ has discovered that a quarter of adults have worried that a child they know may [...]
If you like our podcasts in any way you may also be interested in this two hour pilot from an ex-flatmate of a friend of mine. It contains a great deal of music – jingly jangly, beaty weaty, drum and basey arsefeta – that I frankly can’t abide, but in-between are spoof sketches - Shaun Ryder on Dragon’s Den with his Meat Sunlounger, a kids gameshow forcing five [...]
Here at the roomyverse, where we have our own Mastermind Championship on the go, we like to keep abreast of any developments in the original TV show. We also like to keep our antennas tuned for any evidence that BBC Radio Five Live’s Victoria Derbyshire may really be a mere vibrating husk of a radio ‘personality’, and so [...]
