Radio Fore - A Spoof Radio Show
by Laurence Peacock
In the winter of 2007, under conditions of utmost secrecy, BBC managers created a now mothballed sister station for ‘Radio 4′.Supposed to be a fresh start, a bolder, less middle-class approach to talk radio, it all went terribly wrong. Evan Davies lost a leg, Charlotte Green needed counseling and Marcus Brigstocke was never seen again. Now, in the basement passages of Broadcasting House stalks a lumpen, ghoulish, benighted creature, known as ‘Radio Fore’, the ill-shapen bastard offspring of its elder sibling, kept secret from the public. Until now…
Episodes
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Radio Fore - Witches
In today’s cultural exploration of all things beyond the wall, ‘The Desolate North’ has been invited to spend the day with Priscilla and Margaret, two alternative healers from Sheffield, who share their conversation about good manners, their profession, and the importance of biscuits. Listeners...
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Radio Fore - Money Talks
In today’s Money Talks we meet workshop inspirer, life facilitator, and disambiguation artist, Lynn Pecker. Who explains how introducing individuals to themselves through a process of dynamic personality integration can help create a toxic working environment by subtly undermining employees’...
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Radio Fore - Outside the Box
The work of Marcel Proust amounts to a masterpiece of world literature; a remarkable output which explores every facet of the human experience. So, as he is famous for writing a single book that no-one now reads, we’ve asked him to re-write Fifty Shades of Grey, the single book that no-one should...
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Radio Fore - Komsomol Kids
‘Archive on Fore’ examines the origins, impact and legacy of Komsomolkids, a forgotten classic of children’s television. Combining the endearing animation of other children’s programming of the period, with an unremitting Marxist-Leninist analysis of capitalist power structures, Komsomolkids…
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Radio Fore - Romantics in Recession
As part of an ongoing strand, ‘Radio Fore’ is exploring how the current economic crisis is affecting Britain’s Romantic poet community and today on ‘Romantics in Recession’, Theo Ensworth talks to Romantic poet John Keats about his recent experience of redundancy, his encounters at the job…
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Radio Fore - Unusual Lives: Brian Parker
Brian Parker is a Druid. He is 39 years old and lives in Tinsley. As well as fulfilling his duties as High Seer of the Light for the Tinsley Circle of Druids & Wood Dwellers, he also works at a local call centre, dealing with customer complaints for a well known ISP. We visited Brian last…
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About this show
In the winter of 2007, under conditions of utmost secrecy, BBC managers created a now mothballed sister station for ‘Radio 4′.Supposed to be a fresh start, a bolder, less middle-class approach to talk radio, it all went terribly wrong. Evan Davies lost a leg, Charlotte Green needed counseling and Marcus Brigstocke was never seen again. Now, in the basement passages of Broadcasting House stalks a lumpen, ghoulish, benighted creature, known as ‘Radio Fore’, the ill-shapen bastard offspring of its elder sibling, kept secret from the public. Until now…
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Laurence Peacock
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