Hello all,
I've uploaded my MP3s of "The Unbelievable Truth" to MediaFire. If anyone is interested, the link is
http://tinyurl.com/cmvl34 - I'll also add it to the links section of the group. The folder contains the first two series in full, all the episodes of Series 3 that have been broadcast so far plus the pilot and a Christmas special.
My personal favourite is Series 3, Episode 2. The show is more mature in Series 3 and this episode has Tony Hawkes (a JaM regular of course) in good form and even a short piece of JaM banter when Tony makes a play for a Nicholas-style bonus point.
I also quite like Series 1, Episode 6 which has Sandy Toksvig "corpsing" as she does regularly on radio panel games and Jo Caulfield completely forgetting how to play the game. Both occasional JaM contestants as well.
The one that Dean didn't like is Series 3, Episode 4 (the most recent one) and, as I said before, I do agree that it's probably the weakest show so far. I quite like Will Self normally but I think he turned this one a bit too high brow and his "lecture" was almost impossible to follow. The only thing I worry about is that if, like "Clue", they record two episodes at once then we potentially have another similarly weak one left to be broadcast.
I do agree that The Unelievable Truth has elements of Call My Bluff and Just a Minute, but I guess it's fairly hard to come up with a genuinely unique panel game for radio these days.
Hopefully people will be able to spare the time to listen - I do think there's more good than bad in this series.
I will upload my "Banter" collection as well for the group's entertainment over the next day or so.
Hope this helps
kJ
--- In just-a-minute@..., Dean Bedford <dbedford@...> wrote:
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> fair enough, I'll give them another try. :)
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