S01E05 - Ant & Dec Fan Interview - Pete & Barry
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S01E05 - Ant & Dec Fan Interview

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Pete & Barry

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The Least Worst Bits

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Just as birds fly south for winter, aspiring comedians take the train up to Edinburgh in the summer. So with Pete away at the Festival for a week during August of 2011, and with little desire to present our show solo, I enlisted the help of three friends as co-hosts. None of them had any radio experience but, as Pete and I had quickly come to realise, with OnFM that really didn’t matter.

With that in mind, here’s an excerpt from that show of an ‘interview’ I did with Ant & Dec’s biggest fan.

S01E00 - Movie Pitch - Pete & Barry
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S01E00 - Movie Pitch

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Pete & Barry

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The Least Worst Bits

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In mid-July last year I, along with Pete, a fellow Den of Geeker, started broadcasting our very own radio show. That’s ‘radio’ used in its loosest sense - the show aired on OnFM; a ramshackle local community station based in Hammersmith.

We called an end to the experiment in September because we felt a little disheartened by the whole operation. After nine shows we’d never received any feedback; we weren’t allowed to bring in our own music to play; and we’d been emailed a sample running order inferring that our show needed to be scripted down to the minute. This clearly wasn’t going to work for A Couple of Nerds which had, by then, mostly evolved into us shouting at each other for an hour.

Here’s a clip from our never-before-podcast pilot show, with Pete quite conscious that we needed to prove to the duty manager that we could do responsible radio like grown-ups.