The Big Muddler
The Big Muddler
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Stand by your beds! The Big Muddler is here, delivering a delicious dose of old-style radio comedy. Sketches ... silly songs ... improbable stories, corralled by the unusual mind of Matthew Crampton. It's a variety of nonsense - and we all need variety.
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The show primarily focuses on comedy through sketches, music, and humorous storytelling, with specific episodes exploring themes like the fictional truths of Stonehenge, unusual outcomes at mating laboratories, and fantastical narratives involving soap opera characters. It also intersperses musical performances and witty commentary, enhancing the entertainment value while addressing fantastical and ridiculous scenarios.
Stand by your beds! The Big Muddler is here, delivering a delicious dose of old-style radio comedy. Sketches … silly songs … improbable stories, corralled by the unusual mind of Matthew Crampton. It’s a variety of nonsense – and we all need variety.
We're back in the forest – this time somewhere tropical and eastern – to eavesdrop on the local bigwig's grand departure. But things do not go as planned. Ah well. This season finale gathers many of the show's usual suspects. On The Rest is Jollity, Worthy and Mellers are filling airtime with a monologue song called They Tell Me There's a Lot of It About. Then we're back to the afternoon radio phone-in, plagued by classic actors spouting classic poetry. Is that really Richard Burton from Port Talbot and John Gielgud from East Cheam? It is! Now seems only fair to return to resident soap Great Crustaceans whose guest, this week, is Laura Tanner from shanty group The Silver Darlings. Loyal listener Laura won the competition from Episode 3.3 to guess which classic British gangster film inspired that episode opener. The answer of course is The Long Good Friday, and her prize was a mention on the show. And what a mention it is… There are plans for a collaboration between rock band Great Crustaceans and shanty group The Silver Darlings. But not if guitarist Ray has his say. This episode concludes with a visit to Muddler Live, where we catch I'll See You in My Dreams serenaded to the Spitalfields faithful.
As usual, the Custodian of the Codswallop is Matthew Crampton, who wrote, performed and edited the show. Pianist Dorian Ford appears in Muddler Live.
Find out more about The Silver Darlings here.
I'll See You in My Dreams (1924 Isham Jones & Gus Kahn) Performed by Matthew Crampton and Dorian Ford, recorded at The English Restaurant (mort), Spitalfields 16h February 2014.
They Tell Me There's a Lot of It About (originally written by Ronnie Barker, substantially re-written by Matthew Crampton).
Go and Catch a Falling Star by John Donne read by Richard Burton on Poetry Classics: Great Voices Alto ALN1918 https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7990331–poetry-classics-great-voices
At the Round Earth's Imagined Corner by John Donne read by Richard Burton on Poetry Classics: Great Voices Alto ALN1918 https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7990331–poetry-classics-great-voices
Sonnets 22 and 27 by William Shakespeare, read by John Gielgud on Favourite Shakespeare Sonnets Alto ALN 1988 https://altocd.com/product/aln1988/
Monkeys howling in the Amazonian Rainforest.wav by laurent — https://freesound.org/s/163355/ — License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0
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