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that Morris's initial intention was indeed to show how the public would believe anything if it were delivered with a straight face. It did fool many people, with some listeners ringing in to complain about how the anchor treated his guests. The programme also utilised editing of out-of-context sound-clips and prank phone calls, heightening its surreal quality.
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As in much of Morris's work, surrealism was an important part of the programme, the nonsense in the content ("De-frocked cleric eats car park", "Borrowed dog finds Scotland", etc.) delivered in the same straight-faced manner with which contemporary news stories are dealt, and it has often been quoted
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is 100% news!", "Arise, Sir News!" and "These facts are ear-shaped, let's ram them home!" Morris frequently talks over his guests and does not realise or will not admit when he has the wrong person on the other end of the phone. He "interviews" real-life politicians, whose responses are edited from
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since its inception in 2002 as BBC7 (later BBC Radio 7), although most of these differ from the original broadcast versions. The final two episodes from series 1 are aired in their 30-minute form, taken from extended repeats broadcast in 1991, whilst series 2 transmissions are based on the edited
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in November 2008, in their original episodic form. Series 1 was uncut, although five out of six episodes of series 2 were presented in their significantly edited repeat versions. The only uncut series 2 episode — the then-still-missing episode 5 - was included from an off-air cassette. The
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who appears in several news reports; his surname is referred to interchangeably as "Cosgrave" and "Cosgrove." Lionel's age varies according to each report – sometimes he is a youngster, at other times middle-aged. Lionel is usually presented as a victim (of police corruption and brutality;
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Christmas episode included on the series 1 set is the 1992 version. The original version, first broadcast on 24 December 1991, featured a satirical overview of the year 1991; this overview was replaced by material parodying the events of 1992 for the episode's repeat on 31 December 1992.
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Continuity Announcer (Chris Morris): Often called upon to present news or announce the station's scheduling, the Continuity Announcer speaks with a deep, nasal voice, and can be heard shuffling paperwork before he speaks. Morris later used the Continuity Announcer's voice for the
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Barbara Wintergreen (Rebecca Front): Correspondent on the American channel CBN. Speaking with an exaggerated American accent and making use of convoluted puns, her reports include a Christmas-themed prison execution, prenatal makeovers, a re-enactment of
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pre-recorded material to render them nonsensical, as well as the public, who give baffled or earnest responses to absurd questions such as, "Which is worse, a horizontal disease or a vertical disease?" Morris reprised his newsman persona for
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Roger Blatt/Michael Blatt (Chris Morris): Roger Blatt is the "Disaster correspondent" for a train crash report; the identically-voiced Michael Blatt is the "Strategy correspondent" for the
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Christopher Morris (Chris Morris): The anchor. Combative and over-zealous, he believes in the infallibility of the news, bombastically delivering slogans like "Man is only 90% water, but
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Jacques Œuf (Chris Morris): Appears in two episodes as a French counterpart to Wayne Carr, primarily reporting on celebrity incidents, including a series of photos featuring celebrities
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starred Morris as the overzealous and self-important principal anchor (for which he used his own full name). He was accompanied by a regular cast assembled by Iannucci, comprising
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Twelve episodes were made (including a Christmas special, of which two versions exist) and broadcast in 1991 and 1992. A regular feature in Series One (episodes 1-6) was the
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The programme satirised broadcasting within news programmes by emphasising that it was reporting the news, repeating the show's title, and using such aspects as news speak,
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Rosy May (Rebecca Front): Environmental correspondent. Rosy presents absurd environmentally themed news in the segment "Green Desk." This segment is accompanied by
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Kevin Smear (Patrick Marber): Correspondent who appears in several episodes and is later referred to as the winner of the "Golden Fist Award" for his reporting.
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Owing to the dispute with Lee and Herring mentioned above, the show was initially only commercially available as a two-hour audio compilation on
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with a penchant for contracting words. Wayne's reports include inappropriately upbeat coverage of a train crash disaster, an exposé on
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Donna Doubtfire (Doon Mackichan), as well as various characters played by Steve Coogan. Barbara Wintergreen later appeared in
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The Fully Authorised History of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: The Clue Bible from Footlights to Mornington Crescent
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closed with Morris introducing a set of headlines with the line "And there is still just time to part the
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in May 1992; the "Resurrection Cattle" sketch (intended to be slipped into the Radio 4 series
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for himself, his subject(s), or both. He also makes condescending remarks towards women and
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Extra tracks include the untransmitted pilot episode; a remastered needledrop of the
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on tomorrow's news." Running throughout the final episode was the announcement that
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as "the show that changed everything" and wrote "only a complete arse would call
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team (minus Lee and Herring due to creative/legal disputes, who were replaced by
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DJs throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, the principal inspiration is based on
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The original impetus for On The Hour came from producer Armando Iannucci
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would be taking over all of Radio 4 to transmit 24-hour "Perma-News."
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Monsignor Treeb-Lopez (Patrick Marber): Contributes trite, religious
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of the modern era, but I am a complete arse, so here goes:
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Geoffrey Baym; Jeffrey P. Jones (13 September 2013).
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featured the first appearance of Coogan's character
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BBC Radio 4
Christopher Morris
radio
parodied
BBC Radio 4
Chris Morris
Armando Iannucci
Steven Wells
Stewart Lee
Richard Herring
David Quantick
Steve Coogan
Rebecca Front
Doon Mackichan
Patrick Marber
David Schneider
Alan Partridge
media manipulation
Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan
Prince Edward
Christian Fundamentalist
beef curtains
British Comedy Awards
Writers' Guild of Great Britain
Peter Baynham
Graham Linehan
Arthur Mathews
The Day Today
Brass Eye

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