‘We Are Purple Bicycle Pumps!’ Says Radio 4’s Today Team
Iain Dale gets the hat-tip for breaking the fantastic news that Yoko Ono is to edit an edition of the Today programme, on BBC Radio 4. The first pictures have been released of rehearsals for the show, which Ono promises will be the first attempt to fuse contemporary art with a news magazine. ‘This is so much fun, John would have loved it,’ she said, before spray painting presenter James Naughtie silver and asking him to recite Wallace Stevens‘ ‘Anecdote of the Jar’ with an egg whisk in his ear. Speaking after he spent much of the morning riding a specially trained art chicken, John Humphries admitted to feeling a bit nervous. ‘The chicken is harder to control than a government minister set on full spin,’ he said, ‘but at least it doesn’t leave its droppings all over the studio.’
October 19th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
A government minister should be easier to control than a chicken - but then I suppose you are talking about Earth chickens… No self-respecting Novapulsian would ever allow him/herself to be ridden. What an outrage! Ba-kaaaak!
October 19th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
Atyllah, I never spotted the chicken angle. LOL.
I’m so sorry to have ruffled your feathers, though I suppose it’s Yoko who should apologise. So surprising since I thought in her plastic days she once sang
I am the eggman
they are the eggmen
I am the chicken
Goo goo g’ joob.
October 21st, 2006 at 2:39 am
Now you have gone too far, leave Radio4 alone, back away and put the 4 down… slowly and keep your hands where we can see them…nice and easy. So speaks a member of the nicey-nicey-wishy-washy we’re nice church (militant wing)