Just A Minute

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Chris Williams <spellingerrors@...> wrote:

Hi James,

I would love a copy of your complete version of 462 - Goose. Thanks very much.

I have often thought to do the same kind of thing but I lack the technical skills required.

I think we all appreciate your efforts.

Chris W.

 

 

From: James R Curry <scratchy@...>
To: "just-a-minute@..." <just-a-minute@...>
Sent: Thursday, 15 August 2013 1:38 PM
Subject: [just-a-minute] 462 - Goose - a new edit

 

Hello, JAMfolk!

I'll keep the interesting bit at the top and the stuff you can ignore below.

So, slowly making good on my promise to sort through the World Service episodes, I compared the crisp if low-bitrate World Service copy of #462, Goose, to the version in my collection.  The prior version in my collection is quite muffled, so as always, let me know if you have a better source.

THE INTERESTING BIT

I've made a new edit of #462, using the World Service recording and splicing in two bits from the old recording that weren't in the world service copy.  35 seconds of material.  This gives us a full copy of the episode in a mostly better quality than I believe we had before.

It's available in my usual stash, which I won't post here.  If you don't have it and you're a regular poster, email me.THE LESS INTERESTING DETAILS

Oh, to be a World Service editor.  I'm honestly not sure if the World Service edits are trimmed down from the domestic broadcast, or if both edits start with the same source material and are created independently.  There are a lot of timing differences, when in one edit the studio audience laughter will be shorter (it's kind of white noise, so I imagine easy for them to make that sort of cut) or speech will be tightened with a pause between words shortened here and there.  It's actually kind of interesting the first time you play the edits on top of each other, and they seem perfectly in sync for a little while, and then all of a sudden one has jumped ahead because of these edits. In this case, the World Service edit was actually the longer one for the first couple of minutes.  Then, after that, the original broadcast was consistently longer due to these non-content edits.  They gained 32 seconds like this, in fact.

There are two actual content edits in this episode, and these are the bits I restored (I really don't care about the non-content changes).  From Dean's incredibly helpful site, here's the first of them: NP: 23 seconds for you, salad days starting now.

CF: Good challenge, yes.

NP: I think it's a good challenge, yes, Clement. Definitely. And I gave my reason and I think I was justified. Derek you have the subject,Obviously non-essential talk that's cut for time, but I do hate missing banter, especially with the original team.  It's part of the great character of the show.

The other edit was likely for content:DN: I once saw an untouchable in Bombay with a terrible carbuncle and I went to the local hospital and said "would you please give this poor man a dressing?" Now as he was of the wrong caste they wouldn't apply a dressing to him. Now I thought it was a tragedy...

BUZZ

NP: Paul Merton challenged.

PM: Oh sorry, I was... dressing!

NP: Dressing is the subject.

PM: Sorry.

NP: You can repeat the subject on the card, yes, it is easily done. Thirty-one seconds still with you Derek.

As I've observed before, the World Service edits do tend to drop any content that may be considered sensitive, so I can see why this was excised.

Anyhow, hope someone other than me enjoys the edit - I've encoded it back at a higher quality than any of the sources to try to stem generational loss.

-- James R Curry

scratchy@...

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