Congratulations Craig. You kept quiet about that. Is this instead of the film, or as well as?

As well, I hope!

I have been sworn to secrecy for months. They finished recording today.

So Dr Who is playing you?

I saw Dr who playing Hamlet, I found it very confusing. Because I kept thinking he was Dr Who going.

Perhaps you should consider it a regeneration…

@Arsalan

There’s an idea. How about Craig for the next Dr. Who and Nadira for his attractive side-kick? But I guess little Cameron will keep you too busy for that sort of thing..

I hope you’re not getting licence payers money for any of this.

You won’t be able to criticise New Labour if you do.

Hey, that’s great. Aren’t you the quiet one!

A licenspaper -

Yes I am getting licensepayer’s money for this. Writers deserve to be paid. Why that should mean I can’t criticise New Labour is beyond me.

Didn’t you know? If anyone gets paid by anyone to do anything, they’re not allowed to criticise the government.

cool

I hope it leads to prosperity for you, beginning with a resurgence in sales of your book, and perhaps invitations to give lectures, or be a consultant on issues related to international diplomacy afterwards.

I hope you get a tardis out of it, or at least of of those telepone boxes?

If you see Dr Who, tell him my Son really likes him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shJRm4sNuhE

Hey Craig, I look forward to this!

Hey that was class

We obviously have real time editors here.

Look I wasn’t slagging him off, but I guess I shouldn’t have mentioned his real name.

Anyway, the musicians name is also Tony

What did I say wrong?

Maybe I posted it in the wrong thread?

Normally, I copy and paste what I write on here due to the very strict censorship rules, but as the censorshop has recently been dramaticaly reduced such that you can be so off topic, that you can request a recipe about how to cook frozen salmon – and get a very sensible reply – I didn’t

So Craig – Is The Radio Broadcast – It is Radio right? – You Know People Talking Into These Big Microphones – Like The Goons…

Will Cameras Be Allowed Too?

I mean there is nothing wrong with Radio

I listen to far more Radio than I watch TV, but I think Your Show May Be Rather Good

I will have to get My Broken Thomson Sky+ HD Box Repaired – Yes it Does Radio Too

Tony

I hope David Hare has done a good job in picking out the more important details from the book.

Should be an very interesting play whatever.

I have a love/hate relationship with Radio 4 myself. More love than I have for most radio stations though.

If this play has not already been recorded, I can turn up with two High Definition Video Cameras and External Microphones, because I expect the BBC to be too tight to give a direct aural feed.

Of course I could not accept or want any payment for doing the Visuals…

And of course The BBC could not possibly agree to my Terms and Conditions

We Don’t Do FREE

But the offer is There

I do realise that you probably have absolutely no editorial control, but if you post the date, when it is going to be done, I will see if I can make myself available

Times are tough at the BBC

(Except That is Not What My Daughter Said)

She Couldn’t Fucking Believe It

Tony

Tony,

No, they wouldn’t allow it. They finished recording today.

They need to try to maintain some semblance of credibility Craig.

PS. Yes – this is a good and effective way.

Hope he plays you with more sublety and nuance than that dreadful final performance of Dr Who. By the way blah blah NuLabour Zanu blah blah BBC fascist stooges blah blah Protocols of Zion blah blah Bliar and so on.

Hope he plays you with more sublety and nuance than that dreadful final performance of Dr Who. By the way blah blah NuLabour Zanu blah blah BBC fascist stooges blah blah Protocols of Zion blah blah Bliar and so on.

They need to try to maintain some semblance of credibility Craig.

PS. Yes – this is a good and effective way.

Oh, fantastic.

This is as good a chance as I’ll ever get, to say :- the first time I saw MiS, was in the local library. It was on a shelf labelled “History: USA”.

Well, it made me laugh.

“Rather Then The More Sophisticated Parts Like Oldham”

Now, that’s not a phrase I hear very often.

“I have to confess to being a Dr Who fan ever since William Hartnell.

I remember the first episode about cave men (crap). The second episode was a vast improvement (The one with the spaceship that looked like a pair of dumbbells).

Always liked the adventures of Robin Hood starring Richard Greene the best. There again the thought of taken from the rich and given to the poor always did appeal to me.

George

I remember the second episode. Think I missed the first one.

Altogether now

Robin Hood, Robin Hood

Riding throgh the Glen

Robin Hood, Robin Hood

With his band of men,

Feared by the bad…

“I remember the second episode. Think I missed the first one.”

Lucky you.

Craig

We could do a modern day version of Robin Hood. You as Robin Hood, Jack Straw as the sheriff of Nottingham…No acting required.

Tony…bit OTT old boy..though I do enjoy your rants and raves, try to stick to the subject….I am sure there are other forums for bulshitting at 5am…

“I actually knitted myself a Tom Baker scarf! ”

I for one did not see any of this coming.

Off-topic, but something peculiar has suddenly happened to the layout of this website. Some pages are not filling the screen width (e.g. this one), while others are up to twice the width of the screen (e.g. “David Kelly’s Murder”). I’m finding this is the same across different computers and also different browsers. Before, the page width has always been just right. What gives? Is anyone else seeing this?

David

Its caused by people including long urls in their comments.

David Tennant eh? Anything to do with you turning up at the BBC with a Dalek?

Ugh… on the David Kelly page it is caused by a long unbroken string of ‘+’s in the comment at 1:32 AM.

That is excellent news and well before a general election.

As for David tennants looks, my missis fancies him for reasons I have yet to figure, must be the acting and as you said he does make for a good, hungry looking Hamlet, haven’t asked her who she fancies more, mind you she has not met David Tennant.

Thanks to radio, our fancies will grow in our brains, I very much appreciate that fact, couldn’t stand a movie being made about it, unless its done by Ken Loach, Danny Boyle or Werner Herzog.

Would love to intone Richard Conroy, mind you, he did not say much in you book and died in secrecy, he alone could inspire a whole movie about the drugs trade.

Shall make some publicity for the event and have some friends round for plov, they will want to read the book afterwards.

I think it would be a good idea to have a strategic pile of books for the aftermath, ready to be dispatched. looking forward to it, must have been hard to cramm the book into a single play.

far from being snippy, my missis only fanices david tennant (:-)

Re the formatting of the Kelly post -

“Its caused by people including long urls in their comments.”

But your article at the top of the page ends with a very long url, which formats fine in the main page

“Ugh… on the David Kelly page it is caused by a long unbroken string of ‘+’s in the comment at 1:32 AM.”

I think this is right – save the whole comments page to a local file, open it in an editor, remove that one line, reload into browser. Problem gone.

Which shows us all another way in which conversation here can be made more difficult, should anybody wish to be disruptive.

I love Jemima Rooper! (and Mr. Darcy I still wish there was more to go of Lost in Austen.

@ingo – if you can find out what Billie Piper’s nickname for David T is, from that you’ll work out maybe why all the ladies like him. Still, not all rumours are true )