Features
Recurring features on the programme include:
- Innuendo Bingo—a game that involves playing clips from other radio or TV programmes (particularly other BBC programmes), where what is said can be misconstrued as innuendo. The clips are played to someone from the BBC (or a guest) while the person's mouth is full of water, and the challenge is to not spit out the water while laughing.
- 24 Years At The Tap End—an autobiography of contributor Chris Stark.
- Dear Scott—a long-running feature in which listeners have their e-mails, texts and letters read by Kathy Clugston (also known as 'The Posh Radio 4 Lady' or 'PR4L'. Questions are answered on-air.
- Real or No Real—a feature in which Newsbeat newsreader Chris Smith reads out tweets from fact-based and hoax Twitter accounts. Mills and Stark then decide whether the facts are "real" or "no real".
- Show 'N' Tell—this features team members bringing in items which they think are outstanding.
- Loving the Trolls—a new segment in which Mills reads out abusive tweets and Facebook messages through the voice of Laurence, the automated speech system.
- Follow Me, Follow You. Who Follows Who?—a feature where Chris Stark guesses whether particularly likely celebrity pairings actually follow one-another on Twitter.
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Famous quotes containing the word features:
““It looks as if
Some pallid thing had squashed its features flat
And its eyes shut with overeagerness
To see what people found so interesting
In one another, and had gone to sleep
Of its own stupid lack of understanding,
Or broken its white neck of mushroom stuff
Short off, and died against the windowpane.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times—the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie—seem attractive by comparison.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)
“However much we may differ in the choice of the measures which should guide the administration of the government, there can be but little doubt in the minds of those who are really friendly to the republican features of our system that one of its most important securities consists in the separation of the legislative and executive powers at the same time that each is acknowledged to be supreme, in the will of the people constitutionally expressed.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)