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slanderhour
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A weekly pre-sleep, post-thought audio play investigating the nature of latent boredom and the strip-mining of emotional bereavement. Semi is written & performed by Mark Simpson, Garth Simmons and Jim-John Harkness, and is produced by Stephen Landerhour for BBC Sounds.
Episodes
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Semi - Time
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it--it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what?Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk. And if sometimes, on the…
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Semi - Mood
Dearest Stephen, I regret to inform you that, after much thought, I have decided to resign. Please accept this letter as a formal notice of my resignation. I am more than happy to fulfil the terms of my contract, which require me to remain in my current position for an additional four weeks from...
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Semi - Scabies
Along with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Chin Laden organized the September 11 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people. This resulted in the U.S. invading Afghanistan and launching the war on terror. Chin Laden became the subject of a nearly decade-long international manhunt led by the U.S. During…
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Semi - Crack
What’s the last time you were in a police station? In LA, about 42 years ago. At two in the morning, I was driving in the Valley and stopped a police car to ask the way. They said, “Have you been drinking, sir?” I said, “Of course I’ve had a drink; it’s two in the morning.” [They took me in], but...
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Semi - Vote
When speaking to all of my 11 uncles, they all tell me the same thing: "Them politicians are all the same. If I were in charge I'd sort them out!" To find out exactly what this means and more, listen to this week's episode of Slanderhour. Only on BBC Sounds
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Semi - Bore
They sit at the round table and do not look at one another. The fire is warm but it does not help. Someone laughs too loudly. Someone else watches the laugh. In the morning there was trust. By night it is a thin thing, like frost on the grass outside the castle. They speak of loyalty as if it…
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Phillip K Dick
Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
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Semi - Panto
The smoke from a pipe Frozen solid by sunshine; a different soap in the bathroom and the scent of wintering apples. The house stands like a single word on an empty page with its long flat views and memories of waves breaking on the hills. Never at television, Just the crooning happy faced radio...
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Semi - Setting
They set it yesterday. I watched them pourThe wobbling liquid into its glass mould,Translucent, promising: The recipe called forPatience, and a larder running cold. But jellies fail. Mine's still a slop of red,Refusing to cohere, to find its form.The other's jelly trembles, perfectly deadTo…
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Semi - Pepper
Pepper, I know you're going to be upset 'Cause I was always your little girl But you should know by now, I'm not a baby You always taught me right from wrong I need your help, daddy, please be strong I may be young at heart, but I know what I'm saying The one you warned me all about The one you...
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Semi - Reason
and in the moment of silence, i search for my forsaken voice, buried somewhere, far and adrift, under the summit of sufferings, the rivers of rage, under trampled dreams, under the mottled page, the voice so aloof, i have forgotten it so well, the past of calamity, only if i had a voice; i could...
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Semi - Stoicism
You are as The silver moonlight Which with its grace Dances on the surface of this lake. You, who penetrates my depths And ripples into my being Causing waves to quake. I will be your shelter, In my open arms I will be your rest. I will be as the caves of old, Within me you may find peace From…
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Michael Barrymore Vs Pete Doherty - Episode Four - That's Light Entertainment
In smoky halls where shadows dance, There strides a man with flair and stance. With saxophone in hand, he's seen, Shane Ritchie, the jazz machine. His fingers glide on keys so fine, A melody born from his mind's design. Each note he plays, a tale untold, In his jazz world, he's bold and bold. His...
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Michael Barrymore Vs Pete Doherty - Episode Three - Liberteen
There once was a scientist named Kelly Whose name was made famous quite quickly He spoke on the radio About WMDs, you know But then he was found dead in on a hilly
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Michael Barrymore Vs Pete Doherty - Episode Two - Body to Body
In childhood's realm, young Barrymore did dwell, A world apart, where trials and hardships swelled. No tender hands to guide him on life's path, Alone he wandered, facing nature's wrath. With naught but strength and grit as his allies, He forged ahead beneath the open skies. No sheltered haven…
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Michael Barrymore Vs Pete Doherty
In the spotlight's gaze, Michael Barrymore stood, A figure of laughter, a king of the hood. With charm and wit, he graced the TV screen, A maestro of entertainment, a living dream. His laughter contagious, a gift he shared, A jester of joy, he truly cared. From game shows to variety, his talents...
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Semi - Convo
So it goes, dear listener, that among the myriad of things that sets man apart from his animal counterparts is the gift of gab and the mastery of language. To be a man is to be a creature of speech and discourse. The art of conversation holds a significant role in our lives. It can ease our…
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Semi - Priest
Garth meets a priest. Public transport drama. Garth and his friend have a difference of opinion. Exploring the SUBconscious Other things
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Semi - Exposition
Your face did not rot like the others—the co-pilot, for example, I saw him yesterday. His face is corn- mush: his wife and daughter, the poor ignorant people, stare as if he will compose soon. He was more wronged than Job. But your face did not rot like the others—it grew dark, and hard like…
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Semi - Sub
Love me, use me, Never let me go. Quench this unbearable thirst, this fire in my soul. ... Use me, hate me, ravage me, destroy me, As long as in the end you promise to hold me in your arms and love me. ... Grab my neck and pull my hair only keens and moans will be gotten from there. ... Stroke me...
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Semi - Setting
The jolt that comes to bones inside a tumbled streetcar is what the painter considers as she strokes her- self into story. There is less to the jolt that comes as he shuts his eyes before the monitor, save what he imagines—a lightning bolt, a god tapping the shoulder. He imagines the sky swelling...
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Semi - Skip
I took my life and threw it on the skip, Reckoning the next-door neighbours wouldn’t mind If my life hitched a lift to the council tip With their dry rot and rubble. What you find With skips is – the whole community joins in. Old mattresses appear, doors kind of drift Along with all that won’t…
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Semi - Late
Breaktime, I'll write something for you Breakfast or lunch, I think of you Birds outside the window, chirp at me Birds of the same feather, follow me Be it short or long, poem I write you Braided or craze, your hair, I describe you Below or over my head I scribble for you Beaten or scrambled egg,...
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Semi - Town
Earlestown is named after Sir Hardman Earle (11 July 1792 – 25 January 1877) a slave owner whose family was steeped in the slave trade. He was the Chairman of the London and North Western Railway. Earlestown Town Hall is an imposing building, fronted by a war memorial. In 1962 the Beatles visited...
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Semi - Character
How little it takes to stain the character. A single drop of ink is a very small thing, yet dipped into a tumbler of clean water, it blackens the whole. And so the first oath, the first lie, the first glass of drink, seem very small things, yet leave a dark stain upon the character. Look out for...
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Semi - Chicken
When first I came down Yorkshire, Not many years ago. I met with a little Yorkshire lass, And I'd have you know, That she was so blithe, so buxom, So beautiful and gay, Now listen while I tell you, What he Daddy used to say. Oh treat me daughter decent, Don't do her any harm. And when I die I'll...
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Semi - Large
the clearing was large enough to fit about twelve of your Lion King themed picnic blankets without coming close to the forest’s edge. I thought about bringing you out there and telling you that and then I remembered that you got rid of the blanket 2 months ago when your new boyfriend said that…
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Semi - Bros
My brother, is a wonderful guy. Even though he’s a little bit shy My brother, is a wonderful guy. He’s funny and smart, I cannot deny. He understands, the art of the of persuasion. And is ready to use it, at every occasion. He’s one of those guys, that is interesting and unique. With his original...
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Semi - Shrewd
Oh Venerable Zeus, grant Persephone’s petition to retain Adonis! I, as Queen of the Underworld, can Protect his charming body from vicious men It is here where he found his safest den Here I’ll protect his flesh from being stricken Oh Venerable Zeus, grant Persephone’s petition to retain Adonis!…
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Semi - Bunker
A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home. Ross Kemp
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Semi - Builders
An old man going a lone highway, Came, at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and deep and wide. Through which was flowing a sullen tide The old man crossed in the twilight dim, The sullen stream had no fear for him; But he turned when safe on the other side And built a bridge to span the...
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Semi - Don't
Don't Don't do, Don't, do Don't do that. Don't pull faces, Don't tease the cat. Don't pick your ears, Don't be rude at school. Who do they think I am? Some kind of fool? One day they'll say Don't put toffee in my coffee don't pour gravy on the baby don't put beer in his ear don't stick your toes…
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Kallidus - Luminary
A rare transcript salvaged from Kallidus - Post cataclysm.
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Semi - Spiderman
in my mind you are my friend swinging from the buildings that pierce the sky masked in privacy but shining of honesty you know who I am without my mask every night you take off your suit to mend every night I check my suit of pretend diving headfirst to be a part of your story looking from a...
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Semi - Empathy
We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.
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Thomas Pynchon
Love never goes away, Never completely dies, Always some souvenir Takes us by sad surprise. You went away from me, One rose was left behind — pressed in my Book of Hours, That is the rose I find … Though it’s another year, though it’s another me, under the rose is a drying tear, Under my linden...
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Semi - Wall
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone,...
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Semi - Film
Adam Woodyatt is living in a field full of COWS while on a break from soap. Ian Beale actor Adam has moved into a mobile home after this split from wife of 22 weeks Beverley Sharp. He is living in Yorkshire ahead of an upcoming theatre role in Bradford. Adam and opera star Lesley Garrett will...
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Semi - Telly
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set - Or better still, just don't install The idiotic thing at all. In almost every house we've been, We've watched them gaping at the screen. They loll and slop and…
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Semi - Gone
In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy thinks A beautiful and silent Sphinx has watched me through the shifting gloom. Inviolate and immobile she does not rise she does not stir For silver moons are naught to her and naught to her the suns that reel. Red follows grey across the air,...
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Semi - Rep
Even Solomon. A fame torn apart a name blotted honor dissipates by mere act the villain, women, The Victim Solomon, The acts, Lust. bevies of licentious libidinous passerby in ambuscade hunting destiny Even Solomon, Reputation buried in-between thighs A king captured Indelible stigma women got him.
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Kallidus - Gitz
Gitz is the biggest search for teenage and pre-teen singers, with prizes and opportunities for young artists looking to develop and enlarge their talents. With industry judges including TV scouts, Record Label A&R, Management companies and more, Gitz is a great place to for young artists to get...
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Kallidus - Museum
In Kallidus, seaside kitsch is uber-cool. Visit and celebrate age-old resort-town traditions – sand beaches, fish, metalwork stalls and shore-side rides, all with a hip new twist. Capture a sunset whilst settled on the steps or a seafront bar, cafe or restaurant.
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Kallidus - Sail
The weather of Kallidus is governed by winds that blow through the strait from easterly or westerly directions. In summer, the mainly dry season, the wind from the east or ‘levante’ brings warm and humid conditions and generates a rather persistent 'Rock top' cloud that hangs over the city area....
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Semi - Sorry
I was crazy To hurl curses I was nasty For all the abuses But now I regret I am at shame For all the troubles I am to blame I promise you I will turn a new leaf Never again, will I ever Give you grief I am sorry
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Semi - Dine
Soprano is a 1958 American animated short film directed by David Chase and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black and white by Warner Brothers and was released by Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the debut of Tony Soprano and his girlfriend Carmella, although both characters appeared...
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Semi - Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, also known as Kurt Vonnegut Jr, is an Italian fictional character in the 1883 novel Slaughterhouse 5 by Carlo Collodi. Kurt Vonnegut is an elderly, impoverished woodcarver and the creator (and thus 'father') of Billy Pilgrim. He wears a yellow wig resembling cornmeal mush (called...
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Semi - Stay
Don't stray Don't ever go away I should be much too smart for this You know it gets the better of me Sometimes When you and I collide I fall into an ocean of you Pull me out in time Don't let me drown Let me down I say it's all because of you And here I go Losing myControl I'm practicing your…
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Semi - Funeral
Who can I blame when everyone is facing ! It will take time But it will always get better When all we need is to be understood Why do we expect an explanation What we ruin is this moment Where this journey is destined isn't a matter When one journey is all we have Who can I blame when everyone is...
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Semi - Goggle
I sit in the dark freezing abyss Waiting You sip your coffee desperately for warmth like a cub with his mother While I wait I refuse to move, despite the sound coverage of both the wind and machines outside Because I’m waiting Waiting for you And for them A truck approaches the entrance you guard...
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A weekly pre-sleep, post-thought audio play investigating the nature of latent boredom and the strip-mining of emotional bereavement. Semi is written & performed by Mark Simpson, Garth Simmons and Jim-John Harkness, and is produced by Stephen Landerhour for BBC Sounds.
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