The Fo' Show Review

On Tuesday night I went to see a recording of a comedy panel show for Cam FM (the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University radio station) and reviewed it for one of the student newspaper's websites. Here is the link to the review for anyone who's interested:

http://www.varsity.co.uk/reviews/3043

I really liked it so you should probably also listen to the show as well as read the review. If you're really lucky you might be able to hear me laughing loudly at inappropriate moments unless they've edited that out. I think I may also groan a few times when Pierre talks about spiders. This is mainly because mentioning spiders alongside food brought up images of one of my greatest and most oddly specific fears, that of finding said creatures crawling on a dish of my favourite food, stuffed pasta.

I've Never Seen Star Wars

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hcr5l/Ive_Never_Seen_Star_Wars_Series_2_Barry_Cryer/

Lately I've been listening to repeats of I've Never Seen Star Wars on Radio 4. I quite like the concept of the show (although it is dangerously similar to Room 101) where each week Marcus Brigstocke invites a celebrity guest to try a variety of new experiences and mark them out of 10. (The title of the programme stems from the fact that the creator and producer Bill Dare had never seen any of the Star Wars films.)

Marcus Brigstocke is consistently funny as the host and the experiences often contrast amusingly with the guest's public persona, for example Suggs was asked to read A Brief History of Time, however this doesn't necessarily guarantee good radio. As although trying to picture Sandi Toksvig stilt walking is a fun exercise of the imagination trying to picture Jan Ravens having her eyebrows threaded isn't quite so compelling.

Overall the concept of the programme, although interesting, does seem more suited to television and has in fact been adapted for BBC Four. However as a welcome break from variations of the comedy panel show format such as Heresy and The Unbelievable Truth, I've Never Seen Star Wars is an entertaining listen, if a little over demanding on the imagination.