Radio: Heard On Air
It's lovely lullaby. The baby just will not sleep, until the very end, when sleep comes and there's a little Ah!
Ian Partridge
100 Great Singers (R3)
The Bedouin of the Sinai are grateful to God and to the wind for about one inch of water a year.
Itchy Feet (R4)
Republicans have this wonderful capacity of shooting themselves in the foot - while that foot is still in the mouth.
P J O'Rourke
Steve Wright's Saturday Show (R2)
Two famous Pie Jesus in one free concert: got to be good business.
Trail/advertisement (Classic FM)
The worst present I ever received was J-cloths sewn together to make decorative knickers which, when unpicked, became J-cloths.
The Now Show (R4)
Mine was a Corby trouser-press. I thought the box was going to contain Scalectrix.
Ditto
In Norway, if you stay on at your office after 5 o'clock you're perceived to be an inefficient worker.
Outlook (WS)
My final Sylphides brought the house down. And some flats and a car park as well.
Kit and the Widow Voices (R3)
I've brought a sod with me in a bag and I'd like to know the easiest way of getting rid of it.
Petitioner,
Gardeners' Question Time (R4)
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