Entertainment For Lively Minds
BBC 6Music infiltrates The Archers
Posted by pocket.calculator on 19 March 2010 - 11:19am.
Anyone else hear this? Last night's episode of The Archers was suddenly interrupted by The Undertones' Teenage Kicks, a jingle for 6Music and part of another tune I didn't recognise. At first, as I was driving through south Tottenham, I thought it was one of the regular pirate station flashes - but those usually go something like 'Boom chik chikki-chikki boom bap HEAR ME NOW!' 'ooh, that Linda Snell thinks she's the Queen of Sheba, doesn't she, Mrs Antrobus?'
Total flash time about five minutes. Bit of a shock, as 6Music's only available on digital and my car's not DAB-equipped. Charlotte Green apologised for the interruption, 'due to a technical problem'.
- More from pocket.calculator.
- Login or register to post comments
-
Guerilla warfare inside the BBC
Man (and woman and other) the barricades!
Double entry
Please delete this one, sorry
I only just started with the Archers
But I had no idea it could be this exciting. I am still reeeling from the shock of Jill making alan eat a bowl of stew when he was supposed to be under canvass for Lent. Phew!
Glad you posted this
We, err, record the archers on our nice Humax freeview box and were convinced it was the box playing up (wouldn't be the first time).
I enjoyed it in fact - haven't heard Wednesday Week for ages...
Opt
Apparently it was to do with 6music switching from London to Manchester studios, they accidentally added Radio 4 in the process. The people at Radio 4 didn't know initially because they were listening from to the audio before it went for broadcast rather than from what was actually broadcast
Undertones
...shame there was a sensible reason for it. I was working on a "Ghost of John Peel" rationale.