What a great show that was.
It was probably in the top 5…well…10. Ok, ok, maybe top 75 Requestline shows of all time.
We’ve done worse.
Some of it can never be topped, nor repeated. Probably.

Sadly, what with Ben’s hectic and erratic working schedule, he wasn’t there to record it. Which is unfortunate really.

Another live Requestline show should go out next Thursday (22nd October), which SHOULD have a podcast for our online listeners following ashamedly along behind it, with its tail between its legs.

Or not.
It was Ben’s fault, yet again.

The fool is doing a time-consuming one-day-per-week college course trying to better himself, which means he has to spend most of Thursday daytime admiring curvy students.
However, he’s working the whole of Thursday night (til the early hours of Friday morning), which means he doesn’t have enough time to sleep, do a paid job, AND do a show.

That’s the long-winded excuse he gave us anyway.

Ben wasn’t prepared to stay up 24 hours straight in order to produce a hospital radio show for the listeners, so nothing got produced, recorded, or uploaded here. Frankly, his selfishness knows no bounds.

There was a live concert this week on Thursday night at the Colston Hall. BHBS re-broadcast the whole thing to the patients, which means if there is a Requestline show, it’s about 20minutes long, instead of the usual 90minutes, and the show before ours doesn’t exist at all.

Given that Ben had to be somewhere else an hour after the show finishes, and James hadn’t prepared anything much to do a show about, we decided not to do a Requestline show.

Normal service really might be resumed next week.

The night of colossal Ben #FAIL and general all-round lack of communication

James took the night off, and notified Ben and Stephen.
Ben assumed (incorrectly) that Stephen would stay the full night to act as producer/station manager, then Ben turned up late, after notifying Stephen (who wasn’t at the studio anymore), causing the station’s automated backup show to kick in.

Regular Requestline show members Ed and Steff were unable to present a show, as neither has done their demo yet, and unfortunately for everyone, management were around to see what looks like several members of staff not turning up, while they were busily slating Stephen’s show.

So, when Ben eventually bumped into Ed, Steff, and Ian Pinkney (who presents the show before Ben’s), there was little point actually continuing en-route to the studio, as there was nothing to be done, except for a lot of explaining.

IF Ben had been slightly earlier, IF he hadn’t known about the management situation, and IF he had gone in, sat down and started talking, we’re not sure what he’d have talked about anyway, given his chosen topics. If management don’t like Stephen and Bones chatting amongst themselves and offering subjects they think the other might be interested in (which may or may not be of interest to the demographic), they’re not likely to enjoy what Ben had on his hospital radio running order.

This is what Ben had on his “stuff to talk about” list

- Derren Brown’s reveal – does anyone actually think it’s possible?
- Zoo Magazine – isn’t it sh*t? (Re: Frankenstein woman in recent issue)
- Product placement – good idea/bad idea? (Silly examples of bad ones)
- Lowlight of the week – two of Ben’s housemates moving out
- There was a minute’s silence for Patrick Swayze. If you were going to get a minute of something in honour of you, what would it be? Ben thinks his might be flatulence.
- Kanye West – what a c**t
(He’d also planned to play an unedited version of a song which has the F-bomb in the chorus)