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Re: Live Recording

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PaulJan 25, 2011
 

 
You can have further idea of what Clue recordings are like by buying the "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Live", which contains four shows, or if you prefer, two recording nights. I don't think the same thing for "Just a Minute" is currently available.

Paul

--- In just-a-minute@..., "kj.naughton" <kj.naughton@...> wrote:
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> Hello David,
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> I can't say about JaM but I have been to three Clue (ISIHAC) recordings.
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> Clue recordings are normally in theatres so the performers are up on stage. The stage layout is a table in the centre front of the stage where the chairman sits (Humph, when I saw them) with the scorer (the delightful Samantha). On either side are two more tables at a slight angle - so the whole thing forms an open "U" shape. The panellists sit here. Each table has a light blue tablecloth over it with "Radio 4" emblazoned plus the microphones, water bottles, etc.
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> The producer comes on (Jon Naithsmith) and does a very brief warm-up and a sound check for the "man in the van" as well as doing housekeeping announcements - how long the interval is, where the fire exits are, the importance of laughing even if it's not funny, etc. He then introduces Colin Sell, whose piano is behind the tables at the back of the stage, and the panellists who come on one at a time. Finally he introduces Humph.
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> And then the show kicks off. Two are recorded in each evening with an interval between. They tend to run for around 45 minutes to allow for editing down to 28 minutes for radio. In Clue's case there tends to be an extra round recorded that usually doesn't get broadcast (unless it makes it to a Christmas special).
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> Once the show's finished, the producer comes on and gets people to re-do any scripted parts that they'd fluffed. Almost always that was Humph.
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> And that's it.
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> There is a bootleg MP3 of a Clue recording made by an audience member kicking around which gives an idea of what gets dropped in the edit. If it's not in the group library and anyone's interested then I'll see if I can find it on one of my old hard disks.
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> Cheers
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> kJ
>
> --- In just-a-minute@..., "drling0" <drling0@> wrote:
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> > I am sorry if this has been answered before but can anybody tell us what a live recording of Just a Minute (or ISIHAC) is like.
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> > I left England over 20 years ago so the chances of me going to an actual recording would seem pretty slim.
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> > Love as always, David
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