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June 18, 2009

Radio comedy update

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I've got a sketch being broadcast in the first episode of BBC Radio 7's new topical comedy series: listen on the iPlayer for a while longer here, or there's also a podcast. It's the one about the thrift expert.

**Update** Also sketches on Episodes 4 and 6: Gordon Brown on the plinth and Thought for the Day - the last written while I had swine flu, if it seems a bit feverish.

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November 11, 2007

Eavesdropping on the Past

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Sweet Thunder has a collection of home recording tapes found in charity shops, which are fascinating for the glimpses they give into private and work lives, some of them decades ago. There are stalacpipe organ recordings and astrology readings, but strangely the most interesting are the more mundane moments: a legal secretary practising her pronunciation of legal terms ("Pun-i-tive damages. Quaa-ash"), some drunk men talking about spreadsheets, and a surgical needle sales meeting.

Best of all is the conversation between an elderly couple, where he ruefully admits to falling for her April Fools Day joke yet again:
"In 51 years I've never missed an April Fool. I can get you ten times in a day!"
"The thing is I think you're so sincere about everything. Trick after trick after trick!"
"April Fools Day I lie all day long."

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Emma Payne is a writer based in London. She has written for theatre, television and radio, and published in a number of magazines you've never heard of. This is her stuff. You can contact her
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