Message to Paul Roome

[Spare Mousie]

Bonjour, Jacqueline!

The programme used to be 15 minutes long, five days a week, is how I understood it and was condensed to an hour in the omnibus. I believe they deliberately recorded ‘fillers’ that could easily be removed. (Perhaps that was the origin of ‘change counting’ so beloved on the old BBC messageboard.) I suppose the removal of the opening music for all but the first episode and the closing music for all but the last would have helped cut it down.

[jenniferexile]

Yes, I sometimes used to amuse myself by guessing which bits would be cut out. How sad was that?

[Paul Roome]

Hello Jacqueline and all. Yes I recall that weekday episodes were longer, then slightly reduced in length when the Sunday episode was added and omnibus lengthened to include all the episodes with no cutting of the fluff. The accordion music and Tom Forrest’s preamble also make me all nostalgic. Now I listen to podcasts on my phone mainly apart from occasional live snippets. Progress…

[Kosmo]

I can remember becoming aware of this and listening for duplicated information and then checking that one of the two conversations did not appear in the omnibus.

Does anyone else recall the extra Saturday morning stereo test transmission?

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