It’s the last in this series of the Music and Waffle Show. I can’t believe it’s over. I watched the whole thing fall, and I never saw the writing that was… yeah.. enough Michael Buble.

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It’s the last in this series of the Music and Waffle Show. I can’t believe it’s over. I watched the whole thing fall, and I never saw the writing that was… yeah.. enough Michael Buble.

We’ve got a new remix of Kirsty MacColl. Well, no.. it’s 2.5 years old actually. But it’s good to hear it again (unless you’re a fanatical obsessive fan and you hate us repeating old features, in which case, sorry).

We’ve had a slight problem with our ‘guess how many’ competition The Magic Number this week, in that someone has stolen our bag and balls. However, our listeners can win some great prizes, if they can tell us how many nuts are in the sack. It’s easy – you can even look at it on the webcam. Probably.

Amazingly, Britain has come first in something. Well done us. Well, not me, James and Stephen. But well done to the others who put in some effort.

James has been using the toilet in an incorrect manner. But what have our listeners been doing wrong?

Local newsreader Donald McDonald is possibly not giving the reading of news his full attention this week, although it does feature grapes, Yorkshire, and a chicken.

James has been watching endless dross on TV, so he’s here to put together a roundup for us, and also to give you tips on who to put money on, for winning The Young Apprentice and XFactor.

Ben has finally found someone else who disliked The Hangover as much as he did, and Stephen adds another food to his “the tools of Lucifer” list.

There’s another episode of The Only Way is Bradley Stoke. Everyone is preparing themselves for the local Need For Quickness car race. Come on, Joey!

After forgetting about it for the first two weeks, and promising it the third and running out of time, we’ve finally managed to get Tweet of the Week together for the final show.

We were a bit rushed at the end of the show, so sorry about that. You’ll hardly notice really. I don’t know why I mentioned it, to be honest. As you were.

Podcast Timings

00:00 – Intro, previously, and what’s on today’s show
05:33 – Britain wins something, James’ political manifesto, and his struggles with something
11:31 – Wilso’s Reality Check
17:22 – Donald McDonald Donald
22:03 – What has Ben been doing wrong? And the listeners?
24:22 – Top 5 stories of the week
28:36 – The National Day of today
29:50 – The Magic Number competition
33:00 – Star Trek, Christian Bale, and other movie news
36:24 – TOWIBS
42:09 – Magic Number guesses
43:54 – Kirsty MacColl remix
48:16 – Tweet of the week, world marriage news
49:47 – The Magic Number final guesses and goodbye.

This is the end of the series, so we’re all off for a bit now. Thanks for listening (if you have been).

It’s the penultimate week of this series. We’ve made an intro, in the style of an oldskool one that some of our long-time listeners might remember. For the rest of you – it’s completely original and new.

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It’s the penultimate week of this series. We’ve made an intro, in the style of an oldskool one that some of our long-time listeners might remember. For the rest of you – it’s completely original and new.

James and Stephen are missing a football match being televised while we’re live. But they hardly mention it, at all. (Ben: And certainly not off air, while every record is on. At all.)

Ben’s been putting some things off until he can do it no longer. But what about the listeners?

Donald McDonald Donald has all the latest local news on payrises, name changes, and sightings of bigfoot.

The Magic Number is yet another rollover, with an ever-expanding list of prizes to be won. But just wow many balls are in that bag?

The drama…erm.. reality.. real..unscripted..drama, continues in The Only Way is Bradley Stoke aka TOWIBS.

Sadly there wasn’t time for “Tweet of the week” as advertised by Stephen. Never mind.

Podcast Timings

00:00 – New intro, previously, what’s on this show?
05:06 – Trips to London, and what Ben’s been putting off,
10:21 – Wilso’s Reality Check
15:04 – Donald McDonald Donald
18:55 – Berlusconi’s love songs, listener responses,
21:33 – Top 5 stories of the week
27:47 – Half time – what’s left on this show?
28:40 – The Magic Number
31:45 – Uma has it, viral videos,
34:13 – Dirge, GOHARD, sexiest males
35:58 – TOWIBS
42:21 – The Steve Jobs biopic, bad musical collaborations,
45:55 – Kerry Katona, Magic Number guesses, psychic horses, and goodbye.

We all sound a bit tired today. Ben’s been busy, but not as busy as Stephen. James…well…who knows what he’s been doing?

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We all sound a bit tired today. Ben’s been busy, but not as busy as Stephen. James…well…who knows what he’s been doing?

There’s a few things that annoy Ben. Luckily he’s had a few days to calm down since his effing-and-blinding-outside-the-supermarket breakdown.
But what annoys the listeners? There’s only one way to find out. Erm, ask them.. yeah?

James has a big update on all the reality TV shows. Well…only The Young Apprentice and Xfactor really, but “Wilso’s Apprentice+Xfactor Check” doesn’t really work as a name.

Donald McDonald is here with all the latest news headlines, about gold, Almondsbury super groups, and the location of the best place in the world.

The Magic Number is back, but how many balls are in that bag? If live listeners let us know, they can win some big big prizes.

We’ve got some about-average TV news. 10 o Clock Live is back. We keep calling it “The 10 o Clock Show” for some reason.

There’s also a gold Kirsty MacColl and gold Dr Ben (repeats, in other words).

Podcast Timings

We’re back. Stephen sounds terrible. We managed 15 minutes before we got a complaint.

James has his finger on the pulse of reality TV dross, and he brings it to the listeners in his ‘Reality Check’.

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We’re back. Stephen sounds terrible. We managed 15 minutes before we got a complaint.

James has his finger on the pulse of reality TV dross, and he brings it to the listeners in his ‘Reality Check’.

But never mind national reality shows. What’s happening on a local level? South-West? No, even more local than that! Find out in our award-winning* The Only Way is Bradley Stoke.
(*Hasn’t actually won any awards.)

Donald McDonald is back with the factual local news (not that TOWIBS isn’t factual, obviously), packaged and brutally grafted for the listeners.

What do you have an irritating uncontrollable obsession about? We put this question to our listeners.

If you’ve not read any newspapers, online news sites, not heard the radio, or watched any TV this week, what are the top 5 most important news stories you should hear about? We do a round up for you.

We’ve got a big competition where you can win** some great prizes. It’s called The Magic Number, and it’s simple but brilliant.
(**Live listeners only. Podcast listeners: it’s just for fun.)

You’ve got a million songs. 10 million. 100 million. How do you pick enough music for a 2 hour show though? We use The Randomizer – an enormous wheel covered in numbers. Unfortunately we edit all music we don’t have permission to use, out, so you don’t get to hear it. But never mind.

Podcast Timings

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The video for Oban’s fireworks display

It starts Sunday 6th November, 2-4pm, and is then on every Sunday in November.

We’ve produced this promo for you to enjoy:

It’s currently not available [...]]]> That’s right. We’re back for another 4 episodes in the exciting tales of The Music and Waffle Show.

It starts Sunday 6th November, 2-4pm, and is then on every Sunday in November.

We’ve produced this promo for you to enjoy:

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It’s currently not available anywhere except this website, which makes it some sort of online exclusive! (It’s also only available here due to boring technical reasons, about the order of our iTunes feed, so Ben tells us.)

It’s the last in the series. Doesn’t it feel like it comes around so quick every time? No? Oh.well..err…ok…. moving on.

In a cultured week, Ben and Stephen have both been to the theatre. Different theatres. Stephen saw Shakespeare. Ben..err…didn’t. Stephen held up [...]]]> Right click here and ‘save target as’ or ‘save link as’ to download show (56:57, 78.2mb)

It’s the last in the series. Doesn’t it feel like it comes around so quick every time? No? Oh.well..err…ok…. moving on.

In a cultured week, Ben and Stephen have both been to the theatre. Different theatres. Stephen saw Shakespeare. Ben..err…didn’t. Stephen held up the performance, then made a lot of noise to distract the actors.

Talking of acting, the local friendly pirates have had enough of pirating, and try out at a talent show.

Newsreader Donald McDonald has got all the important local news including stories about pimped-out tractors, flower show ticket touts, and a secret local extraterrestrial area.

The Golden Minute is our big competition which should have a massive prize for the winner. Sadly, Ben has eaten it. There’s always the prestige of getting the right answer, I guess.

It’s the season finale of The Only Way is Bradley Stoke. Will the mayors luncheon be a success?

Our anonymous undercover investigator known only as ‘Richard Cook’ has sent us another audio recording. This one isn’t as clear to understand as some of the others. We hope he’s OK. Get well soon, Richard.

Podcast Timings

00:00 – Intro, what’s on today’s show?
02:19 – Obama, Shakespeare, malted milk biscuits, theatre, end of the world
08:35 – Pirate Britain’s Got Talent
13:06 – Pop Up Video,
14:42 – Donald McDonald
18:54 – Obscure songwriters, overly long songs
20:50 – What’s left on the show?
22:27 – Top 5 Stories of the Week
26:23 – Cheryl Cole
28:40 – The Golden Minute
31:02 – TOWIBS, voiceover work, guesses at the Golden Minute year,
36:39 – Lady Gaga, Rastamouse
38:02 – GlossFM’s toilets, Ringo Starr vs the Beatles, listener guesses at the Golden Minute
41:41 – Kirsty MacColl’s New England, winner of Golden Minute competition
49:47 – Adele
51:18 – The Richard Report
55:47 – Well done, head-butting microphones and goodbye.

Ben is back, audible, and in front of various microphones. He’s on the show. That’s what I mean. Apparently the world is ending. We’re not 100% sure when, although the guy who told us may have taken the details from an REM [...]]]> Right click here and ‘save target as’ or ‘save link as’ to download show (51:01, 70.1mb)

Ben is back, audible, and in front of various microphones. He’s on the show. That’s what I mean.
Apparently the world is ending. We’re not 100% sure when, although the guy who told us may have taken the details from an REM song. We just hope it doesn’t happen before the end of the podcast.

Newsreader Donald McDonald is trying to plan a holiday, but you’ll hardly notice as he doesn’t bring his personal life to work with him, for goodness sake. He’s a professional.

The Golden Minute is back, where you can’t win some great prizes. As either Stephen or Ben forgot to get one. Oops.

The Only Way is Bradley Stoke’s storyline..erm.. real-world…not written..reality..line..continues with gripping stories about important life-changing things such as hair waxing.

Ben gets his Kirsty MacColl track played, but it was so good, it made the rest of the Kirsty MacColl remixes look bad. It’ll take some beating.

Richard Cook looks into grant assistance in the local area, and probes deeply into non-profit organisations’ finances.

Podcast Timings

00:00 – Intro, and what’s on the show?
03:17 – Hip Hop Idol,
05:19 – The world ending
10:11 – Donald McDonald
14:20 – Katy Perry, Mariah Carey, diva requests,
18:30 – Top 5 Stories of the Week
24:07 – The Golden Minute
26:24 – TOWIBS
31:11 – Oxford university speakers, gangland shootings, Golden Minute listener guesses,
33:54 – The horse story
36:14 – Kirsty MacColl’s New England
42:54 – Golden Minute winners,
44:18 – Lady Gaga on Twitter
45:59 – The Richard Report, goodbye.

It’s a first. Not only is James not present this week, but Ben is absent from most of the show. Busy behind the scenes, if you like.

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It’s a first. Not only is James not present this week, but Ben is absent from most of the show. Busy behind the scenes, if you like.

But Stephen doesn’t have to keep the show going entirely on his own. Randy Lightpurple is helping him out by covering some of the local sport, live.
And Donald McDonald has all the local news, of course.

We’ve got a big competition, in the form of The Golden Minute. 4 songs from the same year, 1 minute. Just guess the year. There’s no prize as it’s been stolen, but a big competition nonetheless.

This week has 1 main presenter, 2 news presenters, but there’s no cutbacks elsewhere. There’s still the Top 5 Stories of the Week, don’t you worry.

Reality TV is massive. But we’re the only one doing reality radio about the lives of local residents. The Only Way is Bradley Stoke, continues.

Ben’s wasn’t even listening to this show, and Stephen still played his favourite record of all time. What a nice man Mr Gardner is.

We’ve also got another audio recording from the elusive Richard Cook, delving into the hidden issues happening in the local area, that nobody else is reporting on.

Podcast Timings

00:00 – Intro, what’s on the show?
02:35 – Randy Lightpurple
03:31 – Top Gear, Dragon’s Den
06:03 – More Randy Lightpurple
07:09 – Eurovision, Jedward,
09:32 – Donald McDonald Donald,
13:40 – What else is on the show?
14:49 – Top 5 Stories of the Week
18:18 – The Golden Minute
20:57 – TOWIBS, and listener guesses at The Golden Minute
26:30 – National return to work week, and what’s left in the show?
28:22 – Movie news,
30:05 – Kirsty MacColl’s New England, and the winner of the Golden Minute,
37:39 – Twitter news,
39:14 – The Richard Report
43:08 – Bad losers, and goodbye.

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If you were interested, the picture of the Top Gear presenters Stephen was looking at was probably either
one from here or one from here.

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It’s the final part of this series of the Music and Waffle Show, so it’s only right that we go out with a bang. Starting a bit too literally, we begin by blowing up the Wilso-matic machine.

Our newsreader Donald McDonald is enjoying the work of the hilarious Andy Capp. However, he finds the time to write the morning’s important local news, to keep the listeners up to date.

In another feature that doesn’t work very well in a podcast form (especially when it isn’t edited and uploaded for nearly 9 months), we have a big long debate about The Apprentice and the X-Factor 2010 – as part Wilso’s Reality Check.

What lies have you been told?
We’ve lied during off-air moments of the show, we’ve been lied to from someone else at the station, and Stephen has even been lied to in a foreign language.

Have you missed the big news of the week? No? Well..err…have you missed those crap little ‘Sun Spot’ type stories? You’re in luck. We’ve got the lot, in our feature – Top 5 Stories of the Week.

There’s a huge disagreement over music taste half way through the show. Luckily, we’ve got a professional who can tell us what is and isn’t good, in the form of club DJ Nigel Westmidlandwood.

Stephen tells a theatre horror story, and uses it as a big excuse to plug his play.

How big are the jugs? If our listeners can guess this in “The Magic Number” competition, they can win a prize.

Stephen hasn’t heard the record from The Randomizer in years. Our podcast listeners won’t get to hear it now, either.

Podcast Timings

00:00 – What’s on this show?
04:01 – The replacement third presenter, fake watches, and we put a question to the listeners
08:51 – Donald McDonald’s local news
13:00 – Wilso’s Reality Check
19:29 – Listener replies to our question
22:39 – Top 5 stories of the week
27:17 – A huge disagreement over music taste, and what’s left in the show?
33:42 – Nigel Westmidlandwood
39:29 – Stephen plugs his play
42:58 – The Magic Number competition, and listener guesses
48:06 – The Randomizer, more listener guesses to the competition, and goodbye.