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Radio 1 presenter today: congratulations faille, you have won a trip to london to meet girls aloud!

faille: (breathlessly) ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod!!!!

Radio 1 presenter yesterday: congratulations andrea, you have won a private gig from coldplay for you and 9 of your friends!

andrea: (breathlessly) ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod!!!!

radio 1 presenter the day before yesterday: congratulations jane you have won a trip to paris to see U2 with your boyfriend!

jane: (breathlessly) ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod!!!!

radio 1 presenter 3 days ago: congratulations helen you have won, (oh I forget, a date with ken c or something)

helen: (breathlessly) pwnmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod!!!!

WTF? Do they actually give all these prizes to the same person or something?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

moral of listening to afternoon radio

don't listen to radio 1

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

there is no alternative when I'm driving my van! (most of these were in the morning, one was that creep scott mills on the way home - they do this in the afternoon w/coling & edoth as well?)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

I think radio, in general, was fed up with prize winners going "Ah, thanks" and basically tell all callers that they might lose the prize if they are not excited enough.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

i'd be like that, if someone fixed it for me to meet girls aloud.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

i like the ginger one.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

NO, it's just silly people. People don't squeal on Jonathan Ross when they win, but give the same prize to a R1 winner and out comes the Hollyoaks-lite emoting.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

people who listen to jonathan ross don't got no reason to live.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

As opposed to people who get excited at the prospect of having a private gig from Coldplay?

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes they replay the same enthusiastic caller over and over, at least here in the US.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

from being on the presenter's end I can tell you that we tape the calls, do our best to provoke the winner into being excited, then edit them to only play the most excited bits. Play a good excited call and the listeners get the idea that that's the way they should act, it feeds itself.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

ha ha, 'pwnmygod'

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Teeny, IOW, you made full use of the listener-as-lab-rat model of radio programming.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Teeny is currently taping and editing her baby's gurgling and coos to play them back at him, the better to assure he does that and does not scream.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

All those winners are actually ilxors.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

who likes the ginger one??

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

She's okay, she sang the best when I saw them live.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

i don't know what they look like.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Well you should. Go and stand in the corner.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Why? are they there?

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Maybe, it's a surprise.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

A surprise!

(breathlessly) ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod!!!!

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

On Radio Two it's the other way round - Steve bloody Wright playing endless cheers and whistles and making his sycophants clap and SHOUTING EVERYTHING!! LATER WE HAVE MARIELLA FROSTRUP AND JOE PASQUALE plugging their dreadful Xmas cash-in books WOOOOO!! And carrying on HIL-AAAARIOUS coversations with the records he's playing. "You want to give that horse a name, mate!" And then playing another round of tinned clapping and cheering.

And then his contestants are quite reserved and bashful and vaguely chummy, as though they're calling from a Sunday afternoon pub lunch.

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

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