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Re: trivia

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Dean BedfordDec 8, 2007
 

 
Some trivia about the first Victoria Wood appearance that I don't think
I've relayed before.

The 1982 recording was to feature Kenneth, Derek and Peter with a
different guest for each show. The two guests were due to be Victoria
Wood and Benny Green, a broadcaster, writer and jazz musician. There's
quite a good wikipedia entry on him if you're interested
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Green

Amazingly, neither of the guests had turned up by the time the shows
were due to start. After waiting for a while it was decided that Ian
Messiter would go on the panel for the first show, and that in the
second Ian would take the chair with Nicholas going on the panel. That's
how it came to be that Ian appeared once as a panellist
http://deanbedford.tripod.com/jam507.html

But during the first show, Victoria arrived so the idea of Ian chairing
the second show with Nicholas on the panel was abandoned.

It was a similar scenario that led to Ian chairing a show in 1977. The
panel for the show was to be Kenneth, Clement, Derek and Peter. But
Clement was running late so Nicholas moved to the panel with Ian
chairing. http://deanbedford.tripod.com/jam37.html Clement arrived
during the recording and so took part in the second show. Apparently he
was surprised how well Nicholas did as a panellist - he ended up winning
the game.

 
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