8^th Jan 2016

The Decline and Fall of the Popular Song by Anna Russell and the miserable five.

…now Tugby, once a village of 300 people, boasts a Cycle Cafe serving lattes, cappuccinos and panini. Across country, via a gated road to Goadby, Glooston and Church Langton to Market Harborough; the Oxfam record shop, comedy and spoken word section; grown up music by Paddy Roberts, and an LP which inspired today’s programme: Anna Russell with Jimmy Carroll and his miserable five, interwoven with tracks by Florence Jenkins, and the opera scene from Citizen Kane, so some played for laughs, some inadvertently funny and some just deluded. Introduced by The Big Dee Jay by Paddy Roberts and Winkle Picker Shoes by Bernard Cribbins, the flip side of Hole in the Ground. English comedy, I feel a series coming on…