On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 09:41:06 +0000 (UTC), [email]ifefm@gmail.com[/email] wrote:
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>Capital Radio DJs have been "in on it" from. the start. One of the first
>things I heard in the summer of 1990 was. from a Capital DJ who said, "If
>he listens to Capital then he can't be. all bad" (supportive, you see. We're
>not bastards). Much of what came over the radio. in 1990 is now so far away
>the precise details have been. obliterated by time. No diary was kept of the
>details, and. although archives if they exist may give pointers, the
>ambiguity of what broadcasters said would. leave that open to
>re-interpretation.
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>In spring 1994, Chris Tarrant on his Capital morning show made an aside. to
>someone else in the studio, about a person he didn't identify.. He said,
>"You know this bloke? He says we're trying to kill. him. We should be done
>for. attempted manslaughter".
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>That. mirrored something I had said a day or two before. What Tarrant said
>was understood by. the staff member in the studio he was saying it to; they
>said, "Oh no, don't say that". to Tarrant. If any archives exist of the
>morning show (probably unlikely) then it could be found. there; what he said
>was so. out of context that he would be very hard put to find an explanation.
>A couple of days later, someone at. the site where I was working repeated the
>remark although in a different. way; they said there had been people in a
>computer. room when automatic fire extinguishers went off and those people
>were "thinking. of suing for attempted manslaughter".
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>Finally, this isn't confined to the established radio stations.. In 1990
>after I had listened to a pirate radio station in. South London for about
>half. an hour, there was an audible phone call in the background, followed
>by total silence for a few moments,. then shrieks of laughter. "So what are
>we supposed to. say now? Deadly torture? He's going to talk to us now, isn't
>he?",. which meant that they could hear what I would say in my room.
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Oh dear spammers at it again call Ivor quickly and get him to come
here and have a rant at them again .