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[lady_schrapnell]

Just heard on Radio 4 that Alan Coren died today, which is such sad news. I couldn't find it on a quick look at the BBC news website, so don't know if he was known to be ill or not.

I first encountered him via his books ages ago, when my nice BF* in uni. gave me Golfing for Cats.  It was lovely to re-encounter Coren on various Radio 4 comedy shows in the last few years. 

*Had to specify the nice bf as there was also the AB (awful boyfriend) of Diana Wynne Jones AB-level awfulness.  And she does very good ABs, as we agreed on a list-discussion some time ago!

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Re: anecdotal Alan

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all the wonderful links! I was a late-comer to Radio 4, and hadn't much time to hear Linda Smith before hearing that she'd died. I'd missed Alan Coren on pipes altogether.

Re: anecdotal Alan

[fascicle.livejournal.com]

I probably have quite a lot of incidental Alan on mp2 archive files,
& I know I have all of _A Brief History of Timewasting_ somewhere,
but that it is in half-hour blocs too big to email (I have to put
breaks in shows in order to email chunks of audio).

Re: anecdotal Alan

[fascicle.livejournal.com]

If you hurry, there's still a podcast of last week's Alan-tribute
News Quiz up on the r4 site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/fricomedy/
(a generic link: new show goes up Friday night)

I downloaded it: if you miss it, we can work out some transfer, but
it would be easier if you got it yourself.

Also, Linda Smith is a guest on schadenfreude-show _It's Been A Bad
Week_ currently passing through BBC7 (it'll be on "Listen Again"
tomorrow, being broadcast tonight in the Comedy Club slots at
22.00 & 03.00). I might make mp2 archive chunks of that: Mitchell
& Webb's latest series is repeated in the late r4 slot tonight, too,
having been broadcast at 18.30 earlier in the year. Yay, fun.

Re: anecdotal Alan

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you - I did catch the News Quiz tribute - it was wonderful. Thanks for the tip about the Linda Smith one too - Charlie's coming in today and we might catch it together!