Croydon telephone directory ‘inspired choice’ for Book At Bedtime
BBC Radio 4 producers have been pleasantly surprised by reaction to their unusual choice for Book At Bedtime this week. The distinctive tones of Stephen Fry reading the Croydon Telephone Directory has had listeners enthralled with many calling for other volumes in the series to be featured.
Posted: May 29th, 2009
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Four hundred elderly women have today been freed from a factory in the Midlands where they were employed to ‘knit’ Shreddies for a pittance. Police were tipped off that the ‘Nanas’, made famous by recent advertising were being forced to work sixteen hour days seven days a week in atrocious conditions. When police raided the factory, they found many women close to death and several had to be put to sleep at their workstations as they became violent when officers tried to bring them to safety. One woman lashed out with her knitting needles and badly injured one officer, she was eventually cornered in a toilet cubicle and shot in the head.
Posted: May 29th, 2009
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‘John handed over the right amount to the toll guy, thanked him and drove on’.
Posted: May 28th, 2009
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The Home Office has revealed that the paramilitary wing of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, has been active in Britain for decades, quietly refusing to cause any suffering or engage in serious terrorist activity.
Posted: May 28th, 2009
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Producers at the Discovery Channel are said to be holding crisis talks following the cancellation of the third consecutive ‘Shark Week’, after it emerged that they had broadcast everything there is to know about the marine predators.
Posted: May 28th, 2009
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