The Burkiss Way
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The Burkiss Way was a BBC Radio 4
sketch comedy
series broadcast from August 1976 to November 1980. It was written by Andrew Marshall
and David Renwick
, with additional material in early episodes by John Mason, Colin Bostock-Smith, Douglas Adams
, John Lloyd
and others. The show starred Denise Coffey
(series 1), Jo Kendall
(series 2 onward), Chris Emmett
, Nigel Rees
and Fred Harris
. The series had three producers, announced as "Simon Brett
of Stepney
", "John Lloyd
of Europe
", and "David 'Hatch of the BBC' Hatch
".
The series had its roots in two half-hour sketch shows entitled Half-Open University which Marshall and Renwick had written with Mason for Radio 3
as a parody of Open University
programmes. The first, broadcast on 25 August 1975, spoofed science
, the second, on 1 December 1975, history
.
In a similar vein, The Burkiss Way was based on fictional correspondence courses by "Professor Emil Burkiss" entitled The Burkiss way to Dynamic Living, and each episode or "lesson" had a number and a title based on one of the course's subjects: "Lesson 1: Peel Bananas the Burkiss Way", "Lesson 2: Pass Examinations the Burkiss Way", and so on. Although the numbers and titles were maintained throughout the run, a rapid change of style early in the second series saw the radio correspondence course become a hook rather than a narrative device, and it was mentioned only in passing. From here on the programme continued in a more obvious sketch format, though it was to use increasingly Pythonesque
devices including surreal, stream-of-consciousness
linking, back-referencing and aggregation. Like the Pythons before them, the writers lampooned and tinkered with the medium on which the show was broadcast. Radio 4's continuity style was spoofed. Many later episodes had false endings, sometimes disguised as genuine continuity announcements. The opening and closing credits
might be anywhere within the show. One show ran backwards from the closing to the opening credits, while another was allegedly dropped, broken and glued together with a tube of BBC coffee, resulting in a disjointed running order with many sketches beginning and ending in mid-sentence.
The show's humour was based on surrealism
and literary and media parodies
, sprinkled with puns.
In the first series Chris Emmett made several appearances as a dirty old man; in episode 2, his character became Prime Minister
thanks to the Burkiss Way. From series 2 this voice became "Eric Pode of Croydon
", one of the show's few recurring characters and the only one not a parody of a real person. He is a man with unsavoury habits, inspired by Round the Horne
's "J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock"
. Each week he is interviewed by Fred Harris's character, who calls him Mister Croydon, is disgusted by his habits and puns, and always remarks, "isn't he a panic". This was one of the show's two catchphrases, the other being "there will now be a short intermission". There was usually a series of linked sketches through each episode, the intermission sketches providing a break.
The fact that Douglas Adams had written for the show did not prevent his becoming a target for satire. He was parodied as Mister Different Adams whose catchphrase is "I see comedy as a kind of..." Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
was also a target; the 1979 Christmas show (Eric Pode of Croydon's Easter Special) closes with Peter Jones
as his HHGTTG character, The Book, attempting to vilify BBC Radio 4
for broadcasting The Burkiss Way, but in typical fashion he is cut off in mid-sentence.
As time went on the show became increasingly surreal, and in several sketches the writers seemed to see how many strange ideas they could cram into a sketch. For example, one later episode contains a sketch about an amoeba employed by the Department of Civil Service Staff Recruitment and Fisheries as a token Desmond Dekker and the Aces
but who keeps reproducing asexually
by mitosis
while singing a Lee Dorsey
song.
The Burkiss Way ran to 47 episodes in six series, but the episode and series numbering are derailed by "Lesson 31" and "Lesson 32", which are a single episode masquerading as two half-episodes, the first of which ends series 3 and the second of which begins series 4. There are two "Lesson 39"s, both entitled "Repeat Yourself the Burkiss Way", which have identical beginnings. The consequence is that "Lesson 33" through the first "Lesson 39" have lesson numbers that are one greater than the cumulative number; from the second "Lesson 39" onward the correct numbering is restored.
A sketch in Lesson 28 featuring unsubtle references to newscaster Reginald Bosanquet
's alcoholism
was cut following the first broadcast and was never reinstated.
The last episode was cut short by 6 minutes on its first repeat transmission, on the instructions of the controller of BBC Radio 4. The missing material lampooned the grovelling approach of Radio 4 to the Queen Mother's 80th birthday celebrations. Repeats on BBC7 are still censored, although a restored version was broadcast in Celebrate The Burkiss Way on BBC7 on Saturday, 4 April 2009.
The show gained a cult following and has several rerun
s on BBC 7
. Listeners complained about some omissions, which may indicate that episodes have been lost or wiped – notably Lesson 6 – and some episodes have been broadcast in mono, suggesting the original stereo masters were wiped. Off-air recordings of the entire run survive in collectors' hands. (Lesson 6 is unique in being only 15 minutes).
A book, Bestseller! The Life and Death of Eric Pode of Croydon, was published by Allen & Unwin in 1981, loosely based on sketches from the series.
A BBC Radio Collection in 1994 contained excerpts rather than complete episodes .
Lessons 31 and 32 were 15-minute episodes transmitted one immediately after the other.
The two lessons numbered 39 were different, but started exactly the same way.
Sources:
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
sketch comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
series broadcast from August 1976 to November 1980. It was written by Andrew Marshall
Andrew Marshall (writer)
Andrew Marshall is an English comedy screenwriter, most noted for the domestic sitcom 2point4 children. He was also the inspiration for Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
and David Renwick
David Renwick
David Peter Renwick is an English television writer, best known for creation of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave and the mystery series Jonathan Creek....
, with additional material in early episodes by John Mason, Colin Bostock-Smith, Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television...
, John Lloyd
John Lloyd (writer)
John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd CBE is a British comedy writer and television producer. He is the great nephew of John Hardress Lloyd.-Early life and career:...
and others. The show starred Denise Coffey
Denise Coffey
Denise Coffey is an English actress, director, and playwright.After training at the Glasgow College of Dramatic Art, Coffey began a career in repertory at the Gateway Theatre in Edinburgh, then moved to the Palladium Theatre there...
(series 1), Jo Kendall
Jo Kendall
Jo Kendall is a British actress.She played Desdemona in a production of Othello at the A.D.C. Theatre, Cambridge in 1962.In August 1963 she appeared in the West End in London, New Zealand and Broadway, in the Cambridge University revue Cambridge Circus directed by Humphrey Barclay, alongside Graham...
(series 2 onward), Chris Emmett
Chris Emmett
Chris Emmett is a British actor and comedian best known for his work in the late 1970s on the BBC Radio 4 comedy The Burkiss Way. He was a regular on various series starring Roy Hudd, including The News Huddlines, The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Huddwinks and Crowned Hudds...
, Nigel Rees
Nigel Rees
Nigel Rees is an English author and presenter, best known for devising and hosting the Radio 4 long running panel game Quote.....
and Fred Harris
Fred Harris (presenter)
Fred Harris is a British comedian and children's television presenter. Formerly a school teacher, he began his television career as a presenter of the BBC children's programme Play School, on which he appeared regularly between 1973 and 1988...
. The series had three producers, announced as "Simon Brett
Simon Brett
Simon Brett is a prolific writer of whodunnits. The son of a chartered surveyor, he was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he got a first-class honours degree in English...
of Stepney
Stepney
Stepney is a district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in London's East End that grew out of a medieval village around St Dunstan's church and the 15th century ribbon development of Mile End Road...
", "John Lloyd
John Lloyd (writer)
John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd CBE is a British comedy writer and television producer. He is the great nephew of John Hardress Lloyd.-Early life and career:...
of Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
", and "David 'Hatch of the BBC' Hatch
David Hatch
Sir David Hatch was involved in production and management at BBC Radio, where he held many executive positions, including Head of Light Entertainment , Controller of BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4 and later Managing Director of BBC Radio.- Education :He attended St John's School, Leatherhead and...
".
The series had its roots in two half-hour sketch shows entitled Half-Open University which Marshall and Renwick had written with Mason for Radio 3
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 is a national radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and its New Generation...
as a parody of Open University
Open University
The Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...
programmes. The first, broadcast on 25 August 1975, spoofed science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, the second, on 1 December 1975, history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
.
In a similar vein, The Burkiss Way was based on fictional correspondence courses by "Professor Emil Burkiss" entitled The Burkiss way to Dynamic Living, and each episode or "lesson" had a number and a title based on one of the course's subjects: "Lesson 1: Peel Bananas the Burkiss Way", "Lesson 2: Pass Examinations the Burkiss Way", and so on. Although the numbers and titles were maintained throughout the run, a rapid change of style early in the second series saw the radio correspondence course become a hook rather than a narrative device, and it was mentioned only in passing. From here on the programme continued in a more obvious sketch format, though it was to use increasingly Pythonesque
Monty Python
Monty Python was a British surreal comedy group who created their influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series...
devices including surreal, stream-of-consciousness
Stream of consciousness
In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode that seeks to portray an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her actions.Stream-of-consciousness writing...
linking, back-referencing and aggregation. Like the Pythons before them, the writers lampooned and tinkered with the medium on which the show was broadcast. Radio 4's continuity style was spoofed. Many later episodes had false endings, sometimes disguised as genuine continuity announcements. The opening and closing credits
Closing credits
Closing credits or end credits are added at the end of a motion picture, television program, or video game to list the cast and crew involved in the production. They usually appear as a list of names in small type, which either flip very quickly from page to page, or move smoothly across the...
might be anywhere within the show. One show ran backwards from the closing to the opening credits, while another was allegedly dropped, broken and glued together with a tube of BBC coffee, resulting in a disjointed running order with many sketches beginning and ending in mid-sentence.
The show's humour was based on surrealism
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
and literary and media parodies
Parody
A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...
, sprinkled with puns.
In the first series Chris Emmett made several appearances as a dirty old man; in episode 2, his character became Prime Minister
Prime minister
A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
thanks to the Burkiss Way. From series 2 this voice became "Eric Pode of Croydon
Croydon
Croydon is a town in South London, England, located within the London Borough of Croydon to which it gives its name. It is situated south of Charing Cross...
", one of the show's few recurring characters and the only one not a parody of a real person. He is a man with unsavoury habits, inspired by Round the Horne
Round the Horne
Round the Horne was a BBC Radio comedy programme, transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The series was created by Barry Took and Marty Feldman - with others contributing to later series after Feldman returned to performing — and starred Kenneth Horne, with Kenneth...
's "J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock"
Kenneth Williams
Kenneth Charles Williams was an English comic actor and comedian. He was one of the main ensemble in 26 of the Carry On films, and appeared in numerous British television shows, and radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne.-Life and career:Kenneth Charles Williams was born on 22 February...
. Each week he is interviewed by Fred Harris's character, who calls him Mister Croydon, is disgusted by his habits and puns, and always remarks, "isn't he a panic". This was one of the show's two catchphrases, the other being "there will now be a short intermission". There was usually a series of linked sketches through each episode, the intermission sketches providing a break.
The fact that Douglas Adams had written for the show did not prevent his becoming a target for satire. He was parodied as Mister Different Adams whose catchphrase is "I see comedy as a kind of..." Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, and over several years it gradually became an international multi-media phenomenon...
was also a target; the 1979 Christmas show (Eric Pode of Croydon's Easter Special) closes with Peter Jones
Peter Jones (actor)
Peter Jones was an English actor, screenwriter and broadcaster.-Early life and career:Jones was born in Wem, Shropshire and he was educated at the Wem Grammar School and Ellesmere College. He made his first appearance as an actor in Wolverhampton at the age of 16 and then appeared in repertory...
as his HHGTTG character, The Book, attempting to vilify BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
for broadcasting The Burkiss Way, but in typical fashion he is cut off in mid-sentence.
As time went on the show became increasingly surreal, and in several sketches the writers seemed to see how many strange ideas they could cram into a sketch. For example, one later episode contains a sketch about an amoeba employed by the Department of Civil Service Staff Recruitment and Fisheries as a token Desmond Dekker and the Aces
Desmond Dekker
Desmond Dekker was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician. Together with his backing group, The Aces , he had one of the first international Jamaican hits with "Israelites". Other hits include "007 " and "It Miek"...
but who keeps reproducing asexually
Asexual reproduction
Asexual reproduction is a mode of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single parent, and inherit the genes of that parent only, it is reproduction which does not involve meiosis, ploidy reduction, or fertilization. A more stringent definition is agamogenesis which is reproduction without...
by mitosis
Mitosis
Mitosis is the process by which a eukaryotic cell separates the chromosomes in its cell nucleus into two identical sets, in two separate nuclei. It is generally followed immediately by cytokinesis, which divides the nuclei, cytoplasm, organelles and cell membrane into two cells containing roughly...
while singing a Lee Dorsey
Lee Dorsey
Lee Dorsey was an African American pop/R&B singer during the 1960s. Much of his work was produced by Allen Toussaint with instrumental backing provided by the Meters.-Career:...
song.
The Burkiss Way ran to 47 episodes in six series, but the episode and series numbering are derailed by "Lesson 31" and "Lesson 32", which are a single episode masquerading as two half-episodes, the first of which ends series 3 and the second of which begins series 4. There are two "Lesson 39"s, both entitled "Repeat Yourself the Burkiss Way", which have identical beginnings. The consequence is that "Lesson 33" through the first "Lesson 39" have lesson numbers that are one greater than the cumulative number; from the second "Lesson 39" onward the correct numbering is restored.
A sketch in Lesson 28 featuring unsubtle references to newscaster Reginald Bosanquet
Reginald Bosanquet
Reginald Bosanquet was a British journalist, best known for presenting ITN news in the 1970s.-Early life:He was the son of the cricketer Bernard Bosanquet, inventor of the "googly" and a cousin of the public relations executive Christopher Bosanquet...
's alcoholism
Alcoholism
Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing...
was cut following the first broadcast and was never reinstated.
The last episode was cut short by 6 minutes on its first repeat transmission, on the instructions of the controller of BBC Radio 4. The missing material lampooned the grovelling approach of Radio 4 to the Queen Mother's 80th birthday celebrations. Repeats on BBC7 are still censored, although a restored version was broadcast in Celebrate The Burkiss Way on BBC7 on Saturday, 4 April 2009.
The show gained a cult following and has several rerun
Rerun
A rerun or repeat is a re-airing of an episode of a radio or television broadcast. The invention of the rerun is generally credited to Desi Arnaz. There are two types of reruns—those that occur during a hiatus, and those that occur when a program is syndicated. Reruns can also be, as the...
s on BBC 7
BBC 7
BBC Radio 4 Extra, formerly known as BBC 7 and BBC Radio 7, is a British digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and children's programming nationally 24 hours a day. It is the principal broadcasting outlet for the BBC's archive of spoken-word entertainment...
. Listeners complained about some omissions, which may indicate that episodes have been lost or wiped – notably Lesson 6 – and some episodes have been broadcast in mono, suggesting the original stereo masters were wiped. Off-air recordings of the entire run survive in collectors' hands. (Lesson 6 is unique in being only 15 minutes).
A book, Bestseller! The Life and Death of Eric Pode of Croydon, was published by Allen & Unwin in 1981, loosely based on sketches from the series.
A BBC Radio Collection in 1994 contained excerpts rather than complete episodes .
Episode list
| Series | Lesson | Title | 1 | 1 | Peel Bananas the Burkiss Way | 27 August 1976 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Pass Examinations the Burkiss Way | 3 September 1976 | ||||
| 3 | Escape from Prison the Burkiss Way also known as "The Burkiss Special The Burke Special The Burke Specials were a TV series broadcast on BBC1 from 1972 to 1976.They starred James Burke and were broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1.-Series Two:8 March 1973 to 19 April 1973 at 8.30 pm to 9 pm on BBC1... with James Burkiss James Burke (science historian) James Burke is a British broadcaster, science historian, author and television producer known amongst other things for his documentary television series Connections and its more philosophical oriented companion production, The Day the Universe Changed , focusing on the history of science and... " |
10 September 1976 | ||||
| 4 | Solve Murders the Burkiss Way | 17 September 1976 | ||||
| 5 | Keep Unfit the Burkiss Way | 24 September 1976 | ||||
| 6 | Win Awards the Burkiss Way | 1 October 1976 | ||||
| 2 | 7 | Influence Friends and Win People How to Win Friends and Influence People How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the first bestselling self-help books ever published. Written by Dale Carnegie and first published in 1936, it has sold 15 million copies world-wide.... the Burkiss Way |
15 December 1976 | |||
| 8 | Plan Christmas Schedules the Burkiss Way | 22 December 1976 | ||||
| 9 | Gain Spiritual Fulfilment the Burkiss Way | 29 December 1976 | ||||
| 10 | Govern Britain the Burkiss Way | 5 January 1977 | ||||
| 11 | Journey into the Unknown Journey to the Unknown Journey To The Unknown was a British TV anthology series made in 1968, by Hammer Film Productions Ltd. It has a fantasy, science fiction and supernatural theme. It featured both British and American actors... the Burkiss Way |
12 January 1977 | ||||
| 12 | Make Short Comedy Programmes the Burkiss Way | 19 January 1977 | ||||
| 13 | Commemorate Jubilee Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II The Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II marked the 25th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other Commonwealth realms... s the Burkiss Way |
26 January 1977 | ||||
| 14 | Do You Know What the Burkiss Way | 2 February 1977 | ||||
| 15 | Skive From School the Burkiss Way | 9 February 1977 | ||||
| 16 | Get Off With Life Life imprisonment Life imprisonment is a sentence of imprisonment for a serious crime under which the convicted person is to remain in jail for the rest of his or her life... the Burkiss Way |
16 February 1977 | ||||
| 17 | This Is Your Life This Is Your Life (UK TV series) This Is Your Life is a British biographical television documentary, based on the 1952 American show of the same name. It was hosted by Eamonn Andrews from 1955 until 1964, and then from 1969 until his death in 1987 aged 64... the Burkiss Way |
23 February 1977 | ||||
| 18 | Become a Rock Star the Burkiss Way | 2 March 1977 | ||||
| 19 | Replace the Burkiss Way | 9 March 1977 | ||||
| 3 | 20 | Discover Gravity the Burkiss Way | 15 November 1977 | |||
| 21 | Get Cut Off the Bur... | 22 November 1977 | ||||
| 22 | Succeed in Business the Burkiss Way | 29 November 1977 | ||||
| 23 | Son of the Burkiss Way | 6 December 1977 | ||||
| 24 | One Hour to the Burkiss Way | 13 December 1977 | ||||
| 25 | Not to be Opened Until Christmas the Burkiss Way | 20 December 1977 | ||||
| 26 | First Prize the Burkiss Way | 27 December 1977 | ||||
| 27 | Around the World Around the World in Eighty Days Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the... the Burkiss Way |
3 January 1978 | ||||
| 28 | Ignore These Programme Titles the Burkiss Way | 10 January 1978 | ||||
| 29 | Complain About the Burkiss Way | 17 January 1978 | ||||
| 30 | Not the Burkiss Way | 24 January 1978 | ||||
| 31 | Bruce Bruce Forsyth Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson, CBE , commonly known as Bruce Forsyth, or Brucie, is an English TV personality... 's Choice |
31 January 1978 | ||||
| 4 | 32 | Start New Series the Burkiss Way | ||||
| 33 | The Last Burkiss Way | 7 February 1978 | ||||
| 34 | The Next to Last Burkiss Way | 14 February 1978 | ||||
| 5 | 35 | Remember the Burkiss Way | 2 April 1979 | |||
| 36 | Rise from the Grave the Burkiss Way | 9 April 1979 | ||||
| 37 | Is Britain Going the Burkiss Way? (part 1) | 16 April 1979 | ||||
| 38 | Is Britain Going the Burkiss Way? (part 2) | 23 April 1979 | ||||
| 39 | Repeat Yourself the Burkiss Way | 30 April 1979 | ||||
| 39 | Repeat Yourself the Burkiss Way | 7 May 1979 | ||||
| 40 | Avoid Like the Plague the Burkiss Way | 14 May 1979 | ||||
| Special | 41 | Eric Pode of Croydon's Easter Special | 26 December 1979 | |||
| 6 | 42 | The Man From The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international espionage and law-enforcement... the Burkiss Way |
11 October 1980 | |||
| 43 | Sack the Burkiss Way | 18 October 1980 | ||||
| 44 | Love Big Brother the Burkiss Way | 25 October 1980 | ||||
| 45 | Write extremely long titles with lots and lots of words in, like this, so that the Radio Times Radio Times Radio Times is a UK weekly television and radio programme listings magazine, owned by the BBC. It has been published since 1923 by BBC Magazines, which also provides an on-line listings service under the same title... will have to allot more space than the measly half a centimetre of billing space we usually get and at least it'll look a bit more prominent on the page, although still nowhere near the 50 column inches they give to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy radio series written by Douglas Adams . It was originally broadcast in the United Kingdom by BBC Radio 4 in 1978, and afterwards on global short wave radio on the BBC World Service, National Public Radio in the U.S. and CBC Radio in... the Burkiss Way also known as "Write Extremely Long Titles the Burkiss Way" |
1 November 1980 | ||||
| 46 | Settle Out Of Court the Burkiss Way | 8 November 1980 | ||||
| 47 | Wave Goodbye to CBE CBE CBE and C.B.E. are abbreviations for "Commander of the Order of the British Empire", a grade in the Order of the British Empire.Other uses include:* Chemical and Biochemical Engineering... s the Burkiss Way |
15 November 1980 | ||||
Lessons 31 and 32 were 15-minute episodes transmitted one immediately after the other.
The two lessons numbered 39 were different, but started exactly the same way.
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