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Re: Brief but Memorable

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DaveFeb 6, 2007
 

 
Wow, I hope a BBC archivist is listening in and sneaks a copy out and
onto the net for us! Blackmarket JAM bootleg episodes .... sounds
good to me.

--- In just-a-minute@..., Robert Torres
<bobbyshaddoe3004@...> wrote:

>
> here's a bit of trivia, there was one occasion, according to my

buddy Dean where a woman actually left the studio in tears rather
than put up with Kenneth's tirades. that episode was never broadcast
for obvious reasons.

>
> Sarah Falk <minerva.moon@...> wrote: Kenneth Williams got

so worked up about these things! Such strong

> language. I was listening to a Kenneth episode last night and

remarked

> that I'd have been afraid to challenge him lest I get slapped or
> something--not that he would, you know, but he sure had a short fuse
> at times. My roommate (not a JAM fan but finds them enjoyable when I
> have them playing) is very frightened of him.
>
> --- In just-a-minute@..., Dean Bedford <dbedford@>

wrote:

>
> > The subject was "Macready" and Kenneth was so upset he mentioned

it in

> > his diary written when he got home. But as so often with Kenneth
> when he
> > was really genuinely aggrieved after an initial burst he actually
> sulked
> > rather than keeping on about it.
> >
> > This is the diary entry.
> >
> > Friday 29 October 1976
> >
> > Went to the Paris Studio for JAM. It was awful. Patrick Moore
> > successfully challenging my line on Macready: "one of the great
> > actor-managers of England" by saying "England's never been

managed."

> And
> > the idiot Parsons allowing it! Oh my loathing for this rotten

game!

> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On the last sentence it should be noted that Kenneth's view of

the show

> > was inconsistent - this was his entry for Monday 2 August 1976,

just a

> > couple of months earlier...
> >
> > Got the contract for JAM and thought "bless the BBC" before I

posted

> > it...
> >
>
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> ---------------------------------
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