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In deze aflevering van Sitcomcast neemt Mark ons mee naar het iconische Britse warenhuis van Grace Brothers in de hilarische sitcom Are You Being Served?. Deze klassieke serie, die liep van 1972 tot 1985, zit boordevol scherpe one-liners, dubbelzinnige humor en onvergetelijke personages.Ontdek hoe Mr. Humphries, Mrs. Slocombe (en haar pussy!) en Captain Peacock generaties aan het lachen hebben gemaakt met hun absurde winkelvloeravonturen. Mark deelt zijn favoriete scènes, bespreekt of deze serie een tijdloze klassieker blijft en legt uit hoe de Britse humor ook vandaag de dag nog inspireert.Ben jij bekend met Are You Being Served? of wordt dit je eerste kennismaking? Zet je koptelefoon op, neem een kop thee, en laat je meeslepen in deze nostalgische trip door de gangen van Britse comedy-geschiedenis.Volg ons op:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/desitcomcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088431939984Of mail naar: desitcomcast@gmail.comHosts: Mark van Lier en Joost de KruijterProductie: Dejos Media https://dejosmedia.nl

In 2017 I interviewed Arlene Slocombe for the second time but the first time it was recorded. She was telling the story of a successful event, “Waterstock” where thousands of people came out to support Water Watchers and raise awareness of exploitive water drawing in Wellington county to be sold as bottled water. The harm to the watershed, the incredible amount of plastic garbage, another corporation not listening to their neighbours resounding “No!”, it was the continuation of a bad relationship between, at the time, Nestle, and the people of the county. Blue Triton was formed when two private equity firms bought Nestle Waters Canada with junk bonds and hugely leveraged debt. They continued Nestle's legacy of bottling water across North American into polluting plastic bottles made from fossil fuels. This is totally unsustainable and as many markets are starting to come to understand growing more and more difficult to convince a public they are worthwhile. Blue Triton are now moving out, and may likely try and sell what's left of the operation in hopes to recoup some of the costs. This was a huge victory for local water advocates, and I wanted to learn more so I invited Arlene back on the show to give me the scoop on what was happening and how Water Watchers ran such a successful campaign. Lots to learn here. To learn more :WaterWatchers.ca Water Watchers instagram

durée : 01:03:59 - Mauvais genres - par : François Angelier - Le nouvel épisode de la sage policière de l'inspecteur Sadorski le confronte à pire que lui : le docteur Marcel Petiot. - réalisation : Laurent Paulré - invités : Romain Slocombe Romancier, photographe, réalisateur; Emmanuel Pierrat Ecrivain, essayiste et avocat

durée : 01:03:59 - Mauvais genres - par : François Angelier - Le nouvel épisode de la sage policière de l'inspecteur Sadorski le confronte à pire que lui : le docteur Marcel Petiot. - réalisation : Laurent Paulré - invités : Romain Slocombe Romancier, photographe, réalisateur; Emmanuel Pierrat Ecrivain, essayiste et avocat

This week, as part of his birthday celebrations, Johnny unveiled the newest room at his gym P45. Plus, Sunta got into a spot of bother... And we met a show icon, for various reasons!Hear Johnny on Radio X every weekday at 4pm across the UK on digital radio, 104.9 FM in London, 97.7 FM in Manchester, on Global Player or via www.radiox.co.uk

In our very first episode, Steve, Watty and Craig talk hair products, Breaking Bad, Mrs Slocombe and chocolate orange cake. And a little about cricket.

Amanda Prowse and Penny Dommett nattering around the kitchen table, chatting about all things random from our fabulous podcast stats, lovely listener messages, our first tattoos, the Star Wars connection, do we like Tik Tok? Air frying, Mrs Slocombe, kitchen contraptions, trips to The Golden Egg, sexy welding and bathroom habits!So, pull up a chair and join us for a delightfully irreverent chit chat about life and all its random tangents - bring a cuppa. Cake optional...

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In this episode of the "Leave No Doubt" podcast, join your host Daniel Nisbet as he sits down with Sam Slocombe, a seasoned professional goalkeeper currently showcasing his skills at Notts County FC. Delve into the world of goalkeeping as Sam shares his insights on the values crucial for aspiring players and the dynamic realm of goalkeeper training.Sam provides a unique perspective on the core values that aspiring players, especially goalkeepers, should embody. From mental resilience to leadership, he unravels the characteristics that define successful players between the sticks and on the field.START YOUR TRAINING JOURNEY NOW (EXCLUSIVE FOOTBALL PROGRAM)The discussion takes a deep dive into the intricacies of goalkeeper training. Sam shares his experiences and insights into how goalkeeping techniques and strategies have evolved over time. Discover the drills, mental exercises, and physical routines that contribute to the success of a modern goalkeeper.As a professional goalkeeper at Notts County FC, Sam sheds light on the role of goalkeepers within a football squad. Learn about the unique challenges and responsibilities goalkeepers face, both on and off the pitch, and how they contribute to the overall success of the team.Whether you're an aspiring goalkeeper looking for guidance, a coach seeking insights into goalkeeper development, or a football enthusiast eager to understand the intricacies of this specialized position, this episode is a must-listen. Sam Slocombe's wealth of experience and knowledge offers a fascinating journey into the world of goalkeeping.E-PERFORM WEBSITEFREE FOOTBALL PROGRAMS

Steve Slocombe joins Payner and Ricko to discuss his football experiences.

In this episode of “How Do You Say That?!” sponsored by britishvoiceover.co.uk, York based voice actor Guy Slocombe joins Sam and Mark to talk about big reads and when to pull them back, the butch energy required in some automotive commercials, and there's an ASMR wildcard that surprises us all.Our VO question this week is all about the first demo you should make when you're getting into voiceover.We'd love you to join in and send us your version of one of the reads in today's show – just pop it onto an mp3 and send it to podcast@britishvoiceover.co.ukScript 1By the early 70s, the Cyborg amp was being adopted by other music genres. And just as progressive rock reached its peak, music got a sudden wakeup call.Gritty guitars and the 3 minute pop song were back – this time, with attitude.The punk revolution released a torrent of new talent. It was all about making a statement. Their sound had to be loud and for most, the established Cyborg was the amp of choice. But Punk inspired more than the anarchists.Script 2The future of automotive is here.At Yellow Transportation, we're leading the way forwards and our tech teams are making it possible.We're creating the vehicles of tomorrow here in LeicestershireWe have the ambition.Now we need talented people with technology skillsets to come and help us build the future.From Electrical Distribution Systems, to Body-Chassis Engineering, to Powertrain.If you want to see your work redefine how we move, we want to hear from you.Go to Yellow Transportation.co.uk to see where you could make a difference. **Listen to all of our podcasts here - you can also watch on YouTube, or say "Alexa, Play How Do You Say That?!"About our guest: Guy Slocombe has been locking himself in a box and speaking to the world for the last 9 years. Prior to that he worked in the Corporate world for major drinks companies for nearly 20 years so started in VO totally from scratch. He's recorded Commercials, Explainers, Promos, eLearning, Video Games, Audio Books and Telephone prompts for clients globally such as Netflix, Apple, Porsche, National Geographic and Amazon. He's been nominated for 8 VO awards and recently won a Best Actor Award. Guy also trained as an onscreen actor for 2 years and goes into schools to run workshops. He's presented to around thirty thousand pupils so far! Guy's Website @GuySlocombe1 on Twitter Guy's Facebook page @guyslocombevoiceover on InstagramMark's demos & contact details: https://linktr.ee/britishvoiceovermarkSam's demos & contact details: https://linktr.ee/samanthaboffin

Short trailer for Episode 32 of "How Do You Say That" sponsored by britishvoiceover.co.uk featuring Mark Ryes, Samantha Boffin and Guy SlocombeMark's demos & contact details: https://linktr.ee/britishvoiceovermark Sam's demos & contact details: https://linktr.ee/samanthaboffin

The USA's 1979 version of Are You Being Served? titled Beane's of Boston is under the microscope in this edition of Sitcom Showdown. The pilot starred sitcom veterans Charlotte Rae (Diff'rent Strokes) as Mrs Slocombe and John Hillerman (Magnum PI) as Mr Peacock. Steve and Jeffers compare the two series and - as always - enjoy looking at transplanted sitcom attempts!

Joe & Mark attack the Ham Fam's questions and discuss everything from 7 parters, Mrs Slocombe, Hawthorne & Benton, double acts, Jeremy Brett as the Doctor and much more!

In our 100th episode of Sitcom Showdown, Steve nominates a classic episode of Are You Being Served from 1976. Captain Peacock is in a spot of bother after some suspicious overnight behavior with a store colleague makes him late to work. Mrs Peacock is on the rampage and Messrs Humphries and Lucas are enjoying the show. Meanwhile, Mrs Slocombe is interviewing for a buyers job in Mr Rumbold's office! Come and join us for a good old chat about AYBS and help us celebrate 100 eps! Sitcom Showdown on Twitter:  @SitcomShowdown

For this episode of season 2 I interviewed UK author Jack Slocombe who writs occult fantasy and sci-fi! We had an amazing chat about his very interesting book The God Song. This book sounded so fantastic when Jack and I discussed it I went and bought it right after our interview! Make sure to check it out in the links below!https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jack-Slocombe/author/B09NMBCHMF?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=truehttps://www.amazon.com/God-Song-Jack-Slocombe-ebook/dp/B09NM45NR9?ref_=ast_author_mpbhttps://www.amazon.com.au/God-Song-Jack-Slocombe-ebook/dp/B09NM45NR9

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In this podcast episode, we review the very final original content from the AYBS Universe. :( Your two podcast hosts had a lovely chat with Brian Slade, author “Simon Cadell: The Authorised Biography”, the beloved Hi-De-Hi actor. We received a delightful voicemail from the “Keeping Up Appearances: The Luxury Podcast” with chums of the pod William Hanson (from the “I Sexted My Boss” podcast) and Jonathan Vernon-Smith from the BBC “The JVS Show” programme. The staff has finally turned on Mr. Rumbold's managerial role. “Fanny Adams” is a phrase that translates to “fuck all” but points to a very tragic news event which was popularized by the English Navy regarding an 8 year old girl in 1867. What if there -was- a 3rd season of Grace & Favour/AYBS? We learn about the fate of Mrs. Rumbold. Mr. Molturd randomly announces that the lads from the pub have challenged the staff with a darts match! We try to explain how darts is played (visualize a pizza). Find old episodes of “Bullseye” on YouTube, the Darts Game Show from 1980s' UK! Sheep are being sold to the estate next-door. Mr. Humphries is proud of his Australian hat (sent from his penpal). Capt. Peacock's mysterious bite marks that Miss. Lovelock somehow is privy to. Enter the 1928 Daimler sedan. What is a “tax disc”? Percy the local police officer and Molturd's bribe. And the super cute freeze-frame of Billy Burden in this scene with a great big smile. The Vine Tree Pub was where the exterior shots of the episode were filmed in Norton, England. It's still open today and is a 14 minute drive away from Chavenage House (“Millstone Manor”). Apple orchards in the West Country of England generates excess apples which are then crafted into “scrumpy”- a high-octane alcohol. A quick history of why we call the graphite in pencils “lead”. Mavis can handle her scrumpy and “is just getting started”! Paul Humpoletz player Henry Heathcliff, Malcom's father. Mr. Brandon finally stumps Mr. Jeff: Paul Humpoletz also played one of the thieves in the “The Hold Up” from the original series 10: episode 3! And her past catches up with her again from Tiverton. A shoving match starts up; Rumbold and Henry step outside! Both men are posturing until Slocombe finally smashes Henry with her handbag. Dressed all in black, the staff try to sneak onto the neighbouring estate to spirit away the sheep. Mr. Humphries accepts Slocombe's cold cream! Marketing made men think cold cream was only for young women. Humphries tries to bribe a terrier dog with the tandoori chicken (which no one likes, including the dog). And the sheep find their way back to Millstone Manor! Happy ending! And the final lines of Grace & Favour: Peacock: “A large drink and a hot bath.” Slocombe: “Now that's real leadership that is”. Superfan John-Brian Hopkins on Twitter shared that the terrier in this episode was Wendy Richard's dog named “Shirley Brahams”. The terrier gets the final credit of the series! Our NEXT episode: Behind the Pink Curtain. We discuss our thoughts about making the podcast series, AYBE today and yesterday, and how YOU can make your own podcast. Final call: send us your last voicemail for our final podcast! Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC #AreYouBeingServedAgain #GraceAndFavour #GraceAndFavor

 According to cognitive linguist and philosopher George Lakoff, “The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.” And that is what today's episode is all about. On this week's episode, I'm joined by Matthew Slocombe, a secondary school teacher specializing in educational design and technology and a doctoral student and researcher at the Center for Educational Neuroscience. Matt's research interests relate to the development of children's reasoning and the role of conceptual change and transfer in analogical reasoning. Matt and I connected during the early days of COVID while I was working on Learning that Transfers with Julie, Krista, and Kayla and he put us on to some fantastic research into the role of analogical reasoning in conceptual change and learning transfer. And, much to my joy, he helped us realize analogies are so much more than fanciful things used by poets: they are the essence of how we make meaning. So, get ready to accommodate and assimilate some new knowledge into your pre-existing schema and let's begin. Center for Educational NeuroscienceAnalogical Minds YouTube Channel

​​Ben Slocombe is a commercially and creatively focused marketer, mentor and has built an extensive and successful career in CPG, particularly in beverages and specifically in alcoholic beverages. Most recently as a Director for Beer and Cider at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Australia. He shares what attracted him to marketing, What attracted you to marketing, why too many marketers have short tenures, what makes a great marketing team and more.   Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/managing-marketing/id1018735190  Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/75mJ4Gt6MWzFWvmd3A64XW?si=a3b63c66ab6e4934  Listen on Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjE2MTQ0MjA2NC9zb3VuZHMucnNz  Listen on Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/managing-marketing  Listen on Podbean: https://managingmarketing.podbean.com/  For more episodes of TrinityP3's Managing Marketing podcast, visit https://www.trinityp3.com/managing-marketing-podcasts/  Recorded live on Zoom H4n and edited, mix and managed by JML Audio with thanks to Jared Lattouf.

We're supporting Gladys in the Bell Ringers Association Union local #DING and their strike. Beryl, our switchboard operator, let a very confused voicemail get through to the podcast. Americans: don't forget to vote in the Mid-term elections! A fabulous scene of Miss. Lovelock driving the carriage with Humphries in his red riding gear. “Walkies” jogs our memory to a classic AYBS episode. Peacock tries to encourage Lovelock's fascination with his history… without luck. “It's not quite the same thing, is it?” We learn “punka wallas”. Slocombe and Brahams can still pull the guys! We meet Malcom-Heathcliff again in the path and threatens Humphries again. Who won 3rd place in the Miss. Lovely Legs contest in Tiverton? One guess… “Of you'll find some rough lads waiting for you”. Humphries looks right into the camera to contemplate. Mongolians booked a tour at the Manor but the currency has fallen drastically! Cheap, weird jokes made about Mongolians. The staff have to create a “cultural event” for their guests (Just like in the “Mr. Slocombe” episode!). Slocombe once served Vanessa Redgrave! Ferrets in trousers? Humphries shows off some childhood photos. We get a great “jug ears” thanks to Wendy Richard. A weird hierarchy joke against Molturd from Brahams. Molturd will arrange for local villagers to audition for the talent show. Kiri Te Kanawa is the famous New Zealand opera singer that Slocombe wouldn't remember. Mavis is encouraging Humphries to have a scrap with Malcom-Healthcliff. Mrs Cleghampton (again) tries out for employment and fails (with her adapted cello). Her g-string broke! Tiddles cries; glass breaks. But she played at the Proms! Mr. Jeff explains the cultural mistakes during the Mongolians' concert. The Mongolian language is not a tonal language yet the actors mostly speak Mandarin Chinese. The gong is played. Mongolians stand and bow, over and over. The “sooo…” joke from “The Hand of Fate” episode is recycled but the asian character gets a zing in the end. Molturd battles a donkey and loses. Sir Gay Humphries! Joanne Heywood knows how to dance ballet on point! A suspicious red codpiece. And a patriotic “Britannia” makes an appearance. We think this episode missed several points b/c of sloppy jokes about Mongolians but this shows its age (yet we still love it!). Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC #AreYouBeingServedAgain #GraceAndFavour #GraceAndFavor

It's Halloween season! Only 2 more original episodes of Grace & Favour to cover! A “very special episode” of the podcast coming up. Call for Nominations! Our special upcoming awards! A special hello to our pals Gary and Tilt from The Sitcom Club and their new AYBS podcast “They'll Ride Up With Wear”. Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sitcom-club-091-aybs-pilot/id635720813?i=1000580551913 An AYBS renaissance?! Sweet messages from our #Unanimous listeners who don't want our podcast to end. (All good things...) Start your own podcast! (And we'll make a “Secrets Revealed” podcast episode soon where we teach you how). We were told what the “buffers” was from a previous show. Thanks Mr. Dirk! And we still don't like Old Mr. Grace. Mavis brings Humphries a nice tray with eggs and soldiers (not burly Armymen). A fabulous dream sequence with Miss. Lovelock and Cap'n Peacock as a 1950s period scene - amazing. Tobacco snuff and the gross history of “toffee-nosed gits” and “noses in the air”. The studio audience wanted to applaud the sequence. Then they discover a mummified cat inside the bedroom wall! Rumbold, Slocombe, Brahams, and Humphries go and plant potatoes. Slocombe's straddling of a tractor seat! And her country roots come out. The Bogman joke! A bog = slang for “bathroom” in the UK. “There must have been a very long queue”… LOL The staff go to the local museum to donate the cat. The museum curator is played by Patrick Fyffe who is famous for Dame Hilda Bracket (one half of the female impersonator comedy duo “Hinge and Bracket”). Nefertiti's aunt? We don't get the joke. Daisy the cow has stopped giving milk. Peacock gets a ticket. Bad things are happening to the staff! Take a cat from the wall, bad luck shall befall! Mr. Jeff explains meters and scanning in speaking. Iambic pentameter, etc. Mr. Rumbold had a bang on his head and is probably concussed. Old school chain-pull toilets. Lemon pie filling explodes into the kitchen mysteriously! Lovelock scares Mr. Molturd as she's dressed as a glamourous ghost. Slocombe and Brahams' room is very haunted. Humphries and Mavis' bed starts to levitate off the ground. The laissez-faire use of tranquilizers and sleeping pills. A concussed Rumbold wanders around the manor shouting “Peacock!”. The mummified cat wags its tail(?!). Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC #AreYouBeingServedAgain #GraceAndFavour #GraceAndFavor

Rest in peace Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. A voicemail from Superfan Ms. Johanna from Detroit and her childhood AYBS-related snafu. What do they call “Britbox” in the UK… “box”? Update from Superfan Ms. Ursula: congratulations to Mr. Anthony and Mr. Scott on their nuptials (they're neither one way nor the other) and their AYBS-themed invitations. Mr. Brandon uncovers 1995 memories of his “Encarta” CD-ROM with the new “multimedia”! Mrs. Slocombe was the star of the cricket match. A winning turnip in the Vegetables and Flower Show? Capt. Peacock has trouble getting his leg ‘round a horse. A letter from Mrs. Axelby. (And was she Slocombe's secret lover?!) The strong arm of the Daffodil Club. Mrs. Slocombe's ex-husband appears at Millstone Manor! And she had to have margarine on her toast instead of that slightly salted butter. A guide to the rigid hierarchy of the supermarkets in the UK. But they were happy! Class-conscious Mrs. Slocombe tries to hide in a secret priest hiding spot during the Cromwell years. A very rapid history of the Olive Cromwell period in England. Is “a Scotish breakfast” code for a something? The killing of King Charles I and a special (and old) golden spoon to be used during the upcoming coronation of King Charles III. Mrs. Slocombe turns into a West Country land girl. The staff needs to convince Mr. Slocombe that there's a lot of staff on the property. The actors' experience doing Pantomime shows came in handy with this episode. Using the French language to impress. The classic Mollie Sugden smirk just like Mae West. John Inman as Humphries as Mad Jed where Inman reminds us of the AYBS-Australia episode. “Other times I'm like this… but I'm happy!” Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC #AreYouBeingServedAgain #GraceAndFavour #GraceAndFavor

We love our fun and funny chat with @MsJoanneHeywood on our last podcast episode (and the #Unanimous do too!). -Are- we actually in Northern Mississippi? The rumours continue… Our collective noun to name the listeners of our podcast: “The Unanimous”. The great behind-the-scenes that Ms. Heywood provided the show from her fabulous motorbike scene with Capt. Peacock! We only have 4 original AYBSA/Grace & Favour episodes left to talk about. Mr. James, the current captain of the Grace Bros. Table Tennis Team, left us a lovely voicemail on the PEACOCK Hotline. Americans: which local PBS station did you originally learn about AYBS in the 90s? Send a tweet or FB message, tag us, and then tag the PBS station! Who is the UK “late night” chat show king/queen? Americans are leaving Millstone Manor as the episode opens. Is the American who says their stay was “swell” on “Absolutely Fabulous”? Mr. Brandon is convinced. The Mollie Sugden/Mrs. Slocombe grimaces! Miss. Braham's lesbian barrister admirer. “I'm the other way.” “I'm in between - bifocals!” Our “moment of butch”. And we attempt to explain the cricket. (And then we post a great explanation video on YouTube out of guilt) “What a sticky wicket”. Put the poles in the holes! The scene where Mr. Molturd and Mrs. Slocombe appear to be assisting each other under the marquee's canvas. A beautiful shot of Fleur Bennett and John Inman as Humphries and Mavis. Mrs. Slocombe's tuba music while she pulled the roller on the lawn. Devonshire vs. Cornish and scones; does jam or clotted cream go first? Mr. Jeff salivates over his favourite sandwich from his recent jaunt to London. The gingerbread men cookies. Maybe Mavis and Humphries should get married?! The recycled joke “If life was a train from London to Birmingham, I've just gone past Rugby”. Miss. Lovelock outshines Peacock with The Times' crosswords. Mr. Thorpe and Miss. Prescott from the solicitor's office appear about selling some assets for a massage parlour (And remind us of Young Mr. Grace). And some casual, cringey racist jokes. A suitor from Mavis's past appears from Tender Bottom. The cricket match! Falling pants, Humphries' shorts, and an errant ball. Coming soon: the That Does Suit Madame Northern Mississippi Cricket Team? Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC #AreYouBeingServedAgain #GraceAndFavour #GraceAndFavor

Gladys goes on strike! It's hot (stay cool, #Unanimous). Our newest unpaid intern position: the T.W.I.T: Mr. Bill! We're heading towards the end of the podcast (so send us your voicemails soon!). The original AYBS cast turn into retirees in Season 2 of Grace & Favour? Do you warm your teapot before you pour in the boiling water? Chewing gum and kitties don't mix. Mr. Brandon sees his grandmother's doppelgänger in Mrs. Slocombe. What exactly -was- Mr. Humphries doing with the Americans behind the barn? Is Humphries a man's man? We ponder the 1993 idea of asexuality. It's bad luck to pass a 3-legged cat on the stairs. The Black Cat Lobbyists group have been busy. What -did- Mr. Humphries reach down for during his dream with a Cowboy? Mrs. Humphries' many romantic suitors who Wilberforce was told were his “uncles”. Mavis becomes Humphries' “big sis”. Aww! The Sandy Return of Mrs. Alexby! Captain Peacock finds a loaded gun in the “writing room”. The gun goes off, misses Mr. Humphries, hits a bottle of gin, and he faints behind the bar! The staff immediately worry that a terrorist might have planted the gun in the Manor. (A very un-American idea). Miss. Brahams thinks Prince Charles and Princess Diana live in the property next to Millstone Manor. “So much for English O-levels”. A mucky scene with Mavis (and poor Fleur Bennett). “Eastenders” and “First of the Summer Wine” actors make appearances as the police force. We love Tameka Empson, star of “Eastenders” but in our hearts for “Beautiful Thing” who played Leah. The Derek Bentley gun case is sneakily inserted into this episode. A “makarov” gun and Frank Thornton's brilliant acting. The team gets their backgrounds checked. Miss. Lovelock has an Irish Arab in the stable. Mr. Molturd's blumberbuss gun! Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #MrHumphries #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC #AreYouBeingServedAgain #GraceAndFavour #GraceAndFavor

The final episode of Season 1 of AYBSA/Grace & Favour! (But we still have Season 2 to go). We had an unauthorized travel expense from official Research Unpaid Intern J.J. (but he sends us a report from LONDON anyway). An AYBS tattoo in “The Theatre of the Mind”!? Superfan Patrick suggests that Mollie Sugden as Mrs. Slocombe sounded snooty in the original series but not as much in AYBS-Again. Why? Mr. Jeff sings! Wayne's World and Cops on 90's TV. The gayest moment on the podcast ever! “A trice” - Professor Jeff explains that refers to an old fashioned type of pully. “In a trice” = “in a jiffy”. Mrs. Slocombe reconciders delivering the breakfast tray to handsy Mr. Webster in a throw-back joke. Mr. Conklyn wants Mr. Humphry's help in the bath. The Americans don't have vitality, personality, or youth. “One For My Baby” sung by Bette Midler as the final act for Johnny Carson's “The Tonight Show” on American TV. “Sausage” = “sausage and mash” = Cockney rhyming slang = “cash”. Mr. Humphries milks Bessie the milk cow. Where is the Valley of the Queens?! Tiddles is a cougar, apparently. Harrods delivers to Northern Mississippi! The staff create a church service with Slocombe pumping the organ (and the blacksmith). The dentures are missing! The “Benny Hill” song played during PM Boris Johnson's resignation speech. Mavis is willing for a shilling?! The Harvest Dance! Mavis is the “caller” just like in American Square Dancing (which might have been evolved from Somerset Harvest Dances in England?) Capt. Peacock plays an apple tree from “The Wizard of Oz”. The “Somerset” farmer costumes in “Roots” look the same as in the Harvest Dance in this episode! A call back from “German Week” with Slocombe slapping Peacock! Next podcast: Season 2 of “Are You Being Served Again” / “Grace & Favour”. Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #MrHumphries #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC #AreYouBeingServedAgain #GraceAndFavour #GraceAndFavor

A new “Moment of Butch” sound effect on the show. (Thank you Mr. James). Superfan Mr. JJ suggests AYBS Fan Fiction! What is Mr. Lucas purchased Millstone Manor in “Grace & Favour” and Peacock and Rumbold have to defer to their new boss? Honorary Members of the That Does Suit Madame Research Department! AYBS only had one episode that focused on Miss. Brahams in the plot?! Superfan Mr. Rob points out Jeremy Lloyd's “secret” cameo in the first few episodes of AYBSA/Grace & Favour as the rich car driver when Capt. Peacock was on the runaway lawn mower. Yet more applicants for the free, unpaid TDSM intern program! (Meet Superman and special co-host Ms. Heather). Mr. Gregory sent us the long-elusive videos of John Inman for the 1990s PBS fundraiser videos “Best of AYBS” clips where he reprises Mr. Humphries and Mrs. Humphries! Stay tuned… AYBS props! Did Ms. Heather name her new cute daughter after the podcast?! An appropriately-timed joke about Mrs. Slocombe's cat. “Maybe -I- should be the head waiter!?” Don't ever give Mr. Jeff a tureen of Ministrone soup. A “tronc”, just a façon de parler… (a French term for a “poor box”). Mavis is now very clearly in love with Mr. Humphries. Should the podcast commission a future fan fiction/radio play when we run out of Grace & Favour episodes?! “An all-rounder” is this episode's “Moment of Butch” (a cricket reference!) A timely Madonna reference! Turnips: more entertaining than we ever thought? Mr. Molturd's flood of emotions. Mr. Humphries removes his hand from the knob. Miss. Lovelock's performing in luxury hotels around the world. Humphries reprises “Tony” from “The Holdup” as Luigi, the lovable bartender with his “Zombie Surprise” cocktail. Molturdian is an adjective. Capt. Peacock as Igor in his short dickie? “Skivvies” in the UK = maids. Miss. Lovelock criticizes Mrs. Slocombe and we get an amazing scene from Mollie Sugden. Saying naughty words in American and UK television (and Facebook/IG). “The family way” = pregnant. Portmanteau = a combination of two words into a new one like “brunch”. A Scooby Doo-esque farce of running around the corridor and being frightened. Was the Hall of Faces from Game of Thrones inspired from this episode of Grace & Favour? Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #MrHumphries #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC #AreYouBeingServedAgain #GraceAndFavour #GraceAndFavor

Congratulations to Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II on her Platinum Jubilee! The Channel 5 documentary “Are You Being Served? Secrets and Scandals” - we can't wait to see it. Which do you love more: the original AYBS or AYBS-Again/Grace & Favour? Our poll shows an even split! Joanne Heywood, who played Miss. Lovelock, is unanimous in her choice of “Are You Being Served Again” / “Grace & Favour”. Professor Jeff defines “skeuomorph” thanks to a Unanimous Superman's tip. A live #1 hit with George Michael and Elton John. What would happen if an AI listened to every AYBS episode and wrote a new script? @KeatonPatti on twitter did this with Hallmark Christmas movies and we read a hilarious example. Mr. Brandon uncontrollably giggles again. Our “Moment of Butch”. What exactly -is- Mrs. Slocombe's foundation? And she wants to know exactly where that pub is… Jukeboxes. Air quality in the UK and the disaster in the 1952 called “The Great Smog”. A walking billboard for Reebok running gear. Mr. Humphries finds that 4 inches is more than acceptable. What does “ship shape and Bristol fashion” mean? A surprising slavery connection to a West England port city. Fun with non-sequiturs. “He really gets on my wick” = Cockney rhyming slang. Why can Mr. Humphries handle the Goblin vacuum? The political stunt from Boris Johnson to revert the UK away from the metric system to the old fashioned Imperial measurement system. Pulling a date/pulling a customer. The Benny Hill-like scene with Captain Peacock and the lawn mower. Mr. Humphries and Mavis cry together over cutting onions. A random Paul Lynde impression! Check out graceandfavour.net! Teseling the dirty sheets! Wendy Richard almost breaks character and laughs at the kitchen table. Lots of call backs to the original AYBS series in this episode! Cleg-Hampton, played by Maggie Holland, is past it. Mr. Volpone, played by Gorgon Peters, was in the original AYBS episode, who is amazing at playing an off-balanced British Rail waiter. The 3 new roles in AYBSA/Grace & Favour really added a lot to the new series- a tribute to Joanne Heywood, Fleur Bennett, and Billy Burden! Are there any clips of John Inman around from his PBS promotional tour in from the 1990s? Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #MrHumphries #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC #AreYouBeingServedAgain #GraceAndFavour #GraceAndFavor

A warm welcome to the new Australian Kath & Kim podcast: “Look at Moi - Celebrating 20 years of Kath and Kim” with Rowdie Walden. It's nice, it's different, it's unusual. Check it out, doll. The new Elizabeth Line on the London Underground tube system with special guest: HRH Queen Elizabeth II. That Lower Ohio County Line of the Northern Mississippi Bus Company drops off a new candidate for our intern position (unpaid). We meet our Superfan and Special Co-Host: Mr. Bill! Token straight listeners! Check out Stranger Happenings, Mr. Bill's podcast about strange and unique history and bizarre occurances at StrangerHappenings.com “The Moment of Butch”. Mavis's unique system of categorizing hard boiled eggs with a hopeful grin. The opening credits and the oil painting that fades into the video of the episode. Was Mr. Humphries actually into Mavis?! Mrs. Slocombe's funeral look for Court. Miss Brahms remarks “Crippen's bird” when she sees Slocombe's black veil. Harvey Crippen was a 19th Century doctor who murdered his wife. His mistress, Ethel Le Neve, wore a black veil at his court case. We unpack (again) Benidorm: the actual place and the amazing comedy show. Mrs. Slocombe, while in Benidorm, called Dictator Franco “a berk”. Cockney rhyming slang = Berkeley Hunt, rhymes with …C U Next Thursday. Benidorm, Spain becomes a “Little Britain” (or at least Northern England) with low airfare and hotel packages. Note: Birmingham is -not- Northern England. Barrister = defends people in court. Solicitor = does legal paperwork, contracts, etc. Mrs. Slocombe is on the front page of the paper listed as “a pensioner”. How can a bus pass give away her age? Miss Lovelock and Captain Peacock are to ride a motorcycle? The staff help with the piglets on the hay ride. The Dick Turpin highwayman case! Mr. Bill is a UK TV expert! The eternal battle: Eastenders vs. Coronation Street? Straight men don't know Absolutely Fabulous? Is Mr. Rumbold a leather daddy?! We meet The Magistrates. We learn what “having a slash” means. We also learn that Mr. Humphries kept to himself to himself. Alfie Bass (Mr. Goldberg) was in The Beatles' movie, “Help” from 1965! The first lesbian(ish) interaction on the series between the Lady Magistrate and Miss. Brahams. People have known Mrs. Slocombe for “years and years- years and years and years….”. Ha! Mr. Moulturd doesn't doubt Mrs. Slocombe's veracity (at least back then). Hang the bird in the cellar! Mollie Sugden does a good faint. We finally see the real Tiddles. Mother Humphries has a mobile phone in 1992. The SNL Gap Girl sketch! The Youth don't like to speak on the phone (they text!). Mavis appears to be in LOVE with Mr. Humphries. (Fleur Bennett nails it) Electrocution lessons! Last of the Summer Wine ran from 1973 to 2010 and starred Trevor Bannister and Frank Thorton for years and years. Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #MrHumphries #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC #AreYouBeingServedAgain #GraceAndFavour #GraceAndFavor

Wilberforce Be With You! (May the 4th has been coopted by the podcast!) #Unanimousland What exactly -is- a ballcock? Mr. Ben from The Grace Bros Memorial Gym in London. When did the UK term “fit” start to be used? Professor Jeff assists. The incredible connection with Wendy Richard's East Enders co-star who starred with her in AYBS earlier! If you love Are You Being Served, you'll also love Benidorm and Kath & Kim. Could we do another podcast series based on another TV show?! A hot, hot take voicemail from Mr. Rob (we hope you're sitting down). “The Windors”, a hilarious and irreverent UK comedy which makes fun of the Royal Family (with one important exception). A top notch pussy joke according to Mr. Jeff's joke algorithm program. Putting butter on a cat's paws when one moves into a new home. Fake! Arrousing Mr. Humphries. Mrs. Slocombe really wants to gossip. Mavis can't find her knickers anywhere! Mrs. Slocombe's indecent proposal in the chicken coop with Mr. Molturd. Does it cross the line? Mr. Brandon can't pronounce “vulgarly”. Dotty = teetering (like teeter totter) = not of sound mind. Mavis doesn't get paid! The Kath & Kim house is no more! Mr. Jeff uses his vast Musical background yet again. A “bicycle”. There's a fox hunt on the grounds! Miss. Lovelock's character acts as a way to move the episode's plot along. The bucholic country horse trail scene with Peacock and Slocombe. Mollie Sugden really goes for it in the cart race scene. Humphries and Mavis light fires together in the boiler. The “G” word used for the Roma people. Poor Mavis! Was “the strap” meant to be a catch phrase? Tiddles is being chased by the hounds in a fox hunt! AYBSA/Grace and Favour is like a soap opera: each episode starts where the previous episode ended. The original series episodes were all independent of each other. Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #MrHumphries #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC #AreYouBeingServedAgain #GraceAndFavour #GraceAndFavor

“No, the chef's gone mother…” Mr. Brandon was at that Swiss Yodeling Contest and caught a bug. No more waiting, Unanimous: Are You Being Served Again/Grace & Favour has arrived! Another big thanks to Dean for co-hosting again! “Are You Being Served: The Next Generation”? AYBSA/G&F aired only 7 years after the original series ended. New theme song! 1990's pan-and-scan opening painting! We're back at Grace Brothers after it finally closes down. The first scene with the characters mirrors the opening of the original pilot with a broken elevator incident. Wendy Richard paused her East Enders career just to film the new series! Enter Joanne Heywood who plays Jessica Lovelock, Young Mr. Grace's personal attendant. Due to an inheritance from the Grace Bros Pension Fund, the staff end up with a 16th Century English manor house. You can get married at the real Millstone Manor in the UK (called Chavenage) built in 1576. It's 2nd owner, Nathanial Stevens, supported Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War and encouraged the killing of King Charles I. He dies soon after and his ghost was seen riding a carriage in remorse for the king's killing. Meet Tiddles! (again) Who was Gladys Wainwright? One goes… We meet Morris Moulterd played by Billy Burden who's famous for his West Country Somerset accent. Within the series, Millstone Manor was located somewhat close to Somerset which explains Mr. Moulterd's accent. The staff have to round up chickens in the mud while wearing their finest garb (with a Hyacinth Bucket-esqe look). Mrs. Slocombe milks a cow and we learn that she had a romantic rendezvous with a young Mr. Moulterd. Meet Mavis Moulterd, played by Fleur Bennett, the plucky local “land girl”. The staff are going to live at the Manor and rent out the rooms as a hotel. Captain Peacock does a Jane Fonda exercise video every night (which ties him to the middle class). Fake phone numbers in the UK! Mr. Brandon feels his feelings about Mr. Humphries, even in the 1990s, still not being out of the closet. LGBT representation in the media for young gay guys 30 years ago. Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #MrHumphries #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC #AreYouBeingServedAgain #GraceAndFavour

“I'm a confirmed bachelor. More confirmed than you think!”. We re-welcome special guest host Dean Arcuri from Aussie-land! (he's noice, he's diff'rent, he's unyewsuel) Sherrie Hewson liked our tweet! (Who played Mrs. Slocombe in the 2016 BBC reboot/Benedorm). Deep Cut Jeff and refrigerator trivia. Aussie and Southern accents. Kath & Kim love and footie franks. UK accents on Australian TV. We recommend GlobalGiving.org for support for Ukraine. “Undesirable Alien” is the only Australian AYBS episode that's an original script; all other episodes are frame-by-frame remakes of the original UK episodes. Therefore, this is a “lost episode” (which is also very difficult to find online… good luck). Storyline: Mr. Humphries moves to Australia and works at “Bone's”, remarkably similar to Grace Bros. Parody law: tweaking art so it's your own and not a 100% copy. Were the Australian AYBS episodes created so Channel 10 could have a piece of the AYBS pie that ABC had already secured? The American Kath & Kim, Beane's of Boston, a remake of Hyacinth Bucket in Ohio: can you capture lightening in the bottle a 2nd time? The Americans learn the term “bogans”. …and “occa”. Mercuries and Subarus. Mr. Jeff sings! The Roseanne/Absolutely Fabulous connection. June Bronhill, who played the Mrs. Slocombe character (named Mrs. Crawford). She was a famous opera singer whose first acting credit was this show! Occa = Aussie term for someone with a heavy Australian accent. Mr. Brandon is being formulaic about comedy?! How much is that $10.50 Aus bowtie worth today? About $30 US. The cultural phenomenon/soap opera called “Neighbours” which is ending after 37 years of filming 5 days a week. American soaps air during daytime TV. Australia and the UK's soaps are primetime = very different stuff. Mr. Humphries had a work permit to work at Bone's department store but it was lost! Immigration is looking for him on the sales floor. So of course, Mr. Humphries goes into disguise as a bogan maintenance worker. Why did he have corks on his hat in his bogan costume? Bruce is the butchest name. Mrs. Crawford agrees to marry Mr. Humphries so he can stay employed with the team. Using random Australian words. Didgeridoo! Koala! Tim Tam slams are illegal in Northern Mississippi… We want to import fairy bread: white bread, butter, sprinkles. Imaging life next to a big, hairy, beer-drinking man. The “Fast Forward” skit about AYBS starring Kath & Kim stars Magda Szubanski and Gina Riley. Actors copying original AYBS roles vs. a new interpretation of the character. LGBT rights in Australia in the early 1980's. Dean speaks good. Suing for breach of promise? (Calling off an engagement and how engagement rings figure into things). Navigating COVID relationships. “Nutbush City Limits”, the Tina Turner song, is a required Australian wedding song. Disappointment in The Netherlands. And then they find the work permit form! Mrs. Crawford doesn't get to marry Mr. Humphries after all. Deus Ex Machinaaaaaa! …and Mr. Humphries is, once again, free. Up next: Are You Being Served Again? / Grace & Favour!!! Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #MrHumphries #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC

Felicity Slocombe, narrates her blog co-authored with Chloe Waterman written for the Dementia Researcher website. This blog has been written after myself and my colleague Chloe realised the similarity and overlap of two theories we use respectively in our PhD research. We hope to show how neuro-culture (Chloe) and neoliberalism (Felicity) are negatively impacting people with dementia. If we can understand and accept that we live within these cultures in society, we may better understand the continued stigmatisation of dementia? Listen and we will explain. Find the original text, and narration here on our website. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-dementia-and-stigma-through-the-lenses-of-neuro-culture-and-neoliberalism/ -- Felicity Slocombe is a first year PhD Student from Loughborough University. Felicity's research focuses on identity and dementia and how identity can be managed interactionally – how we can help support identity of people living with dementia through our conversations. Driven by a family connection to dementia, and writing each month on a range of topics from her work, and that of her wider group ACTInG (Applied Cognition Technology and Interaction Group), and sharing news from her training and events. Chloe Waterman is a PhD Student at University of Birmingham and Research Associate at Kings College London. Her research investigates how people with dementia are affected by mental capacity law in England and Wales. Chloe uses discourse and conversation analysis to conduct this socio-legal research, and work at King's, Chloe is involved with projects investigating how community led support programmes work, and how digital tech innovations can be used to improve social wellbeing for older community dwelling adults. _____________________________________________________ Enjoy listening? We're always looking for new bloggers, drop us a line. http://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk  

In the latest episode,  Simon chats with Kevin Slocombe – for 12 years the Communication Workers' Union's Head of Communications before moving on to work with Jeremy Corbyn while he was Leader of the Opposition, and then becoming Chief Of Staff for Bristol's Mayor, Marvin Rees - not one but three roles that are each fascinating in their own way, but not often open for viewing and discussion. Kevin's assessment of what works best in comms is one that comes with real authority.  We also have Mel Simms' #thought4theweek direct from the UCU picket line,  Basit Mahmood with his #RadicalRoundUp, and news of a brand new podcast from the UnionDues stable.  A Makes-You-Think production. Music by Scott Holmes. A member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Timestamps 2m01s - #thought4theweek, with Mel Simms, 5m28s - Kevin Slocombe  (6m48s – CWU,  17m14s - LOTO, 29m10s – Bristol), 36m44s - #RadicalRoundUp, with Basit Mahmood, 40m21s - New podcast news! Total run time  - 43m57s  

“Oh, you're like me aren't you?” We laugh at our fake sponsor ads. Don't feel guilty for watching “Beane's of Boston”. Charlotte Rae was a busy lady. Were BBC execuitives scared of Mr. Humphries' camp in 2016? Darren Litten of Benidorm wrote the script for the 2016 BBC reboot! The reboot moves the AYBS Universe 3 years into the future from 1985 (when the original series ended) to 1988. New actors playing the old characters (most well known in the UK). John Challis as Captain Peacock! (From “Benidorm” and “Only Fools and Horses”) Sherrie Hewson as Mrs. Slocombe (From “Benidorm” and “Loose Women”) Roy Barraclough as Mr. Grainger (From “Coronation Street”) Kayode Ewumi as the new Mr. Conway Jason Watkins as Mr. Humphries Justin Edwards as Mr. Rumbold Mr. Conway's “new” accent: MLE “Multi-cultural London English”. It's a new accent that's developed within the last few decades around London. To be fit or not to be fit? Mrs. Slocombe's personal stock of wipes. The Slocombe/Dame Everage grimace! Young Mr. Grace's framed portrait in Mr. Rumbold's office. Mimiced 1970s BBC camera angles. The X-rated method to stop a dog from choking. PSA's on American television in the ‘80s. Do you remember the Punky Brewster refrigerator episode? A black actor! Mr. Harmon's still using CRS: Cockney rhyming slang. Grainger has come out of retirement to escape his wife. Mathew Horne plays Young Young Young Mr. Grace. Essex is the New Jersey of the UK? “It's just a very low kitten heel, Captain Peacock…” The “f-word” in the UK doesn't mean what it means in the US. What did -you- think about the lobster chocking scene? Slocombe arrives back at work while covered in “sewage”. Breaking the 4th wall with the p-word joke. The 1957 time-warp bubble from the original series. The BBC also made other pilots in 2016 like “Young Hyacinth” (a prequel of “Keeping Up Appearances”). How would the LGBTQ community see a Mr. Humphries character on the airwaves today in a modern show? How was the retro nature of AYBS part of the show's appeal? Next show: the “lost” episode of AYBS Australia called “Undesirable Alien”. Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #MrHumphries #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC

Seventies sitcoms have their knockers but we have no objection to getting stuck in to the glory that is Are You Being Served

What would AYBS be like if it was filmed in Los Angeles instead of London?? The Unanimous loved The Unanimous Episode! And we'd still love to hear from you if you didn't get on the podcast. Get well soon folks who have COVID. Blackface verses Drag: comparable or not? Are you a drag queen? We'd love to hear your thoughts about what drag means to you. There's only one recording of “Beane's of Boston” (and that's probably for the best…). Beanes of Boston was filmed between seasons 6 and 7 of the original AYBS in the UK. “Healthy” Kentucky Fried Chicken?! Beane's was broadcast once on May 5, 1979 during the old “Good Times” time slot on CBS. Theme songs: a pilot episode in music. Beane's of Boston is like an American Grace Brothers… kinda. Frank Beane (“Old Mr. Grace”) played by Tom Poston (who guest starred on every sitcom in the 70/80s). Mr. Brandon's brain is AYBS and nothing else. Old Mr. Beane is a dirty old man like Young Mr. Grace. Harrold Bennet's YMG was somehow sweet while being a dirty old man; Frank Beane not so much. We love bumbling Mr. Rumbold played by Nicholas Smith. How did “pilot season” effect the actors in Beane's of Boston? “Miss. Brahams” feels like an airhead from “Three's Company”. Remaking films/TV shows is such a tricky thing since audiences will naturally compare the new product to the classic one. Why couldn't American audiences watch the original UK TV series? American censors couldn't handle sexual jokes or overtly gay characters? Check out Steven Capsuto's Youtube channel about LGBT TV history at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT-uzyA8-dkyNpMBKXb8mZw We meet Alan Sues who plays Mr. Humphries (Sues was gay but not out for his career). John Hillerman plays MISTER Peacock and carries it off very well. Charlotte Rae plays Mrs. Slocombe without her famous tinted hair. Was blue hair only a UK phenomenon? Slocombe does the “are you free?” line! Did American audiences know about AYBS? Repetition of classic AYBS jokes- “German Week” episode set up. “Well there goes my ride home” = a bold gay joke for American TV in 1979. The first black AYBS-related actor is Don Bexley who plays Mr. Johnson (like Mr. Harmond in maintenance). The German week jokes didn't get any laughs from the American audience. Mrs. Garrett from “The Facts of Life”! The Trans-Atlantic accent: the world's completely artificial accent in 1930s Hollywood films (think Catherine Hepburn). Drunk Mrs. Slocombe singing Marlene Dietrich! Comparing the German Dance Slap Fight with the original just isn't fair. The American experiment failed but it's a great way to compare and construct BoB with AYBS. Generation gaps made the original UK show so funny and relatable: by 1979 in the US, that just didn't work. Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #MrHumphries #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC

Felicity Slocombe, narrates her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website. Subject Pronouns in English - I, We, You, He, She, They, and It - small words that take on a whole new meaning when listening back to conversations between loved ones living with dementia. Felicity explores the topic. Find the original text, and narration here on our website. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-couplehood-co-remembering-the-bond-of-a-lifetime-together/ If you would like to write for us, or join out team of regular contributors, drop us a line - dementiaresearcher@nihr.ac.uk

From music hall to Red Dwarf, pantomime to Absolutely Fabulous, we look at the history of British comedy, the names, shows, and historical events that made it what it is today. Like what you hear?  Become a patron of the arts for as little as $2 a month!   Or buy the book or some merch.  Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram. Music: Kevin MacLeod, Steve Oxen, David Fesliyan.  . Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Links to all the research resources are on the website. Podchaser: Moxie got me through 2,500 miles. I listened to every episode regardless of audio quality from the vault. I got my fix of facts with a personality that kept me entertained the entire time. I shared it with everyone I knew that would appreciate the facts, wit and hilariously subtle segues. 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Thank you Moxie for such a wonderful gift, and the book is great too Gift and merch “The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created.  This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”  Thus begins Douglas Adams' Restaurant at the End of the Universe, sequel to his culture touchstone The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  That's the book that gave us the answer to life, the universe and everything, though not the question.  Welcome to episode number 42, which I have decided to devote to [drumroll] the history of British comedy.  That means we're going to try to cram hundreds of years, thousands of performers, and a dozen mediums into a half-hour show.  But don't panic.  My name's Moxie and this is your brain on facts.    British comedy history is measured in centuries, from chase scenes and beatings into Shakespeare's comedies to the misadventures of Mr. Bean.  Even as times, tastes, and technologies changes, some themes are eternal.  Innuendo, for example, has been a staple in the literature as far back as Beowulf and Chaucer, and is prevalent in many British folk songs.  King Charles II was such a fan of innuendo that he encouraged it to the point that Restoration comedy became not only its own genre, but an explicit one at that.  The repressive Victorian period gave us burlesque, though not in the same form as the shows you can see today - more vaudeville than striptease.  Absurdism and the surreal had always been an undercurrent, which firmly took root in the 1950's, leading Red Dwarf, The Mighty Boosh, and Count Duckula.  Though the British Empire successfully conquered ¼ of the globe, but its individual people struggled and suffered.  Plagues, wars, poverty, class oppression, and filthy cities gave rise to, and a need for, black humor, in which topics and events that are usually treated seriously are treated in a humorous or satirical manner.  The class system, especially class tensions between characters, with pompous or dim-witted members of the upper/middle classes or embarrassingly blatant social climbers, has always provided ample material, which we can see in modern shows like Absolutely Fabulous, Keeping Up Appearances, and Blackadder.  The British also value finding humor in everyday life, which we see in shows like Father Ted, The IT Crowd, and Spaced, which also incorporates a fair amount of absurdity.   But there's nothing the Brits do better than satire and nobody does it better than the Brits.  “The British, being cynical and sarcastic by nature do have a natural flair for satire,” says BBCAmerica.com writer Fraser McAlpine.  “There's a history of holding up a mirror to society and accentuating its least attractive qualities that goes back hundreds of years...Sometimes the satire is biting and cold, sometimes it's warm and encouraging, but if you want someone who can say a thing that isn't true, but also somehow IS true in a really profound way. You need look no further.”  There are three principal forms of satire.  Menippean satire uses fantasy realms that reflect back on modern society.  Everything from Alice in Wonderland to the works of Terry Pratchett fit here, as would Dr. Who.  Horatian satire skewers cultural moments of silliness using parodic humor.  These are the kind of thing you tend to see most of in comedy TV shows, like The Office.  We're laughing at people being inept and harassed, but not evil.  Juvenalian satire skewers everything with abrasive, often bleak, wit.  If there's an element of horror at the topic being discussed, that's a clue that it's Juvenalian.  John Oliver is a fair hand with Juvenalian satire.  Most political cartoon and black humor fall under this heading.   Though comedy is as old as laughter, we're going to begin today's time travel with the music hall.  (FYI, the narrative today is going to overall linear, but there will be a fair amount of bouncing around.)  Music halls sprang up as an answer to proper theater, which was at the time heavily monitored and censored by the government.  It took place in humble venues like the backs of pubs and coffee houses.  By the 1830s taverns had rooms devoted to musical clubs. They presented Saturday evening Sing-songs and “Free and Easies”. These became so popular that entertainment was put on two or three times a week.  Music in the form of humorous songs was a key element because dialogue was forbidden.  Dialogue was for the theater and if you had speaking parts, you'd be subject to censorship.  The Theatrical Licensing Act of 1737 empowered the Lord Chamberlain's Office to censor plays; this act would be in force until 1968. So, no speaking parts, less, though still some censorship.  Music halls also allowed drinking and smoking, which legitimate theaters didn't.  As the shows became more popular, they moved from the pubs into venues of their own.  Tavern owners, therefore, often annexed buildings adjoining their premises as music halls.  The usual show consisted of six to eight acts, possibly including a comedy skit (low comedy to appeal to the working class), a juggling act, a magic act, a mime, acrobats, a dancing act, a singing act, and perhaps a one-act play.  In the states, this format was essentially vaudeville.  The music hall era was a heyday for female performers, with headliners like Gracie Fields, Lillie Langtry, and Vesta Tilley.  The advent of the talking motion picture in the late 1920s caused music halls to convert into cinemas to stay in business.  To keep comedians employed, a mixture of films and songs called cine-variety was introduced.     The other critically important tradition of that era was panto or pantomime, but not the Marcel Marceau type of pantomime you might be picturing, but a type of theatrical musical comedy designed for family entertainment.  Modern pantomime includes songs, gags, slapstick comedy, dancing, and gender-crossing actors.  It combines topical humour with well-known stories like fables and folk tales.  It is a participatory form of theatre, in which the audience is expected to sing along with certain parts of the music and shout out phrases to the performers.  It's traditionally quite popular around Christmas and New Years.  In early 19th century England, pantomime acquired its present form and featured the first mainstream clown Joseph Grimaldi, while comedy routines also featured heavily in British music halls.  British comedians who honed their skills at pantomime and music hall sketches include Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel.  The influential English music hall comedian and theatre impresario Fred Karno developed a form of sketch comedy without dialogue in the 1890s, and Chaplin and Laurel were among the young comedians who worked for him as part of "Fred Karno's Army". VODACAST   Hopping back to famous ladies of music hall, one such was Lily Harley, though her greatest claim to fame is having given birth to Charles Spencer Chaplin.  When Lily inexplicably lost her voice in the middle of a show, the production manager pushed the five-year-old Charlie, whom he'd heard sing, onto the stage to replace her.  Charlie lit up the audience, wowing them with his natural comedic presence.   Sadly, Lily's voice never recovered, and she was unable to support her two sons, who were sent to a workhouse.  For those of us who don't know workhouses outside of one reference in A Christmas Carol, think an orphanage or jail with indentured servitude.  Young Charlie took whatever jobs he could find to survive as he fought his way back to the stage.  His acting debut was as a pageboy in a production of Sherlock Holmes.  From there he toured with a vaudeville outfit named Casey's Court Circus and in 1908 teamed up with the Fred Karno pantomime troupe, where Chaplin became one of its stars as the Drunk in the comedic sketch A Night in an English Music Hall.  With the Karno troupe, Chaplin got his first taste of the United States, where he caught the eye of a film producer who signed Chaplin to a contract for a $150 a week, equivalent to over three-grand today.   During his first year with the company, Chaplin made 14 films, including The Tramp, which established Chaplin's trademark character and his role as the unexpected hero.  By the age of 26, Chaplin, just three years removed from his vaudeville days, was a superstar.  He'd moved over to the Mutual Company, which paid him a whopping $670,000 a year to make now-classics like Easy Street.   Chaplin came to be known as a grueling perfectionist.  His love for experimentation often meant countless takes, and it was not uncommon for him to order the rebuilding of an entire set or begin filming with one leading actor, realize he'd made a mistake in his casting and start again with someone new.  But you can't argue with results.  During the 1920s Chaplin's career blossomed even more, with landmark films, like The Kid, and The Gold Rush, a movie Chaplin would later say he wanted to be remembered by.  We'll leave Chaplin's story while he's on top because his private life from here on out gets, in a word, sordid.   Though Chapin was English, his film were American.  British cinema arguably lagged decades behind, but they began to close the gap in the 1940's.  Films by Ealing Studios, particularly their comedies like Hue & Cry, Whisky Galore! and The Ladykillers began to push the boundaries of what could be done in cinema, dealing with previously taboo topics like crime in comedic ways.  Kitchen sink dramas followed soon after, portraying social realism, with the struggles of working class Britons on full display, living in cramped rented accommodation and spending their off-hours drinking in grimy pubs, to explore controversial social and political issues ranging from abortion to homelessness.  These contrasted sharply with the idea of cinema as escapism.  This was the era of such notable stars as actor/comedian/singer-songwriter Norman Wisdom.  Beginning with 1953's Trouble in the Store, for which he won a BAFTA (the British equivalent to an Oscar), his films were among Britain's biggest box-office successes of their day.  Wisdom gained celebrity status in lands as far apart as South America, Iran and many Eastern Bloc countries, particularly in Albania where his films were the only ones by Western actors permitted by dictator Enver Hoxha to be shown.  He also played one of the best characters in one of my favorite and most hard to find films, “The Night They Raided Minsky's.”   There are few institutions in British history that have had such a massive role in shaping the daily lives of British citizens as the British Broadcasting Corporation, which for decades meant the wireless radio.  “For many it is an ever-present companion: from breakfast-time to bedtime, from childhood through to old age, there it is telling us about ourselves and the wider world, amusing and entertaining us,” says Robin Aitkin, a former BBC reporter and journalist.  The BBC solidified its place in the public consciousness from its beginnings in 1922 to the end of the Second World War in 1945 is of special interest because these pivotal years helped redefine what it means to be British in modern society.  This was especially true during the high unemployment of the 1920's, when other forms of entertainment were unaffordable.  The BBC was formed from the merger of several major radio manufacturers in 1922, receiving a royal charter in 1927, and governmental protection from foreign competition made it essentially a monopoly.  Broadcasting was seen as a public service; a job at the BBC carried similar gravitas to a government job.  Classical music and educational programs were its bedrock, with radio plays added to bring theater to the wireless.  The BBC strove to be varied but balanced in its offerings, neutral but universal; some people found it elitist nonetheless.  Expansion in offerings came slowly, if at all, in the early years.     Trying to bring only the best of culture to the people meant that bawdy music hall acts had little to no place on the radio.  Obscenity was judged by laws passed as early as 1727.  British libel and slander laws are more strict than in the US, so making fun of public figures was taboo even in forms that would have been legal.  And blasphemy?  Lord, no.  In 1949, the BBC issued to comedy writers and producers the Variety Programmes Policy Guide For Writers and Producers, commonly known as "the Green Book."  Among things absolutely banned were jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind, suggestive references to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, fig leaves, ladies' underwear, prostitution, and the vulgar use of words such as "basket".  (Not an actual basket, the Polari word “basket,” meaning the bulge in a gentleman's trousers.  More on that later.)  The guidelines also stipulated that "..such words as God, Good God, My God, Blast, Hell, Damn, Bloody, Gorblimey, Ruddy, etc etc should be deleted from scripts and innocuous expressions substituted."  Where the independently tun music halls gave people what they wanted, BBC radio gave people what it felt they needed.  But comedy writers are nothing if not clever and there is always a way to slip past the censors if you try.   In the very beginning of radio, comedies lampooned the poor, because only those with money had radios.  As radio ownership grew, the topics of shows broadened.  First half-hour comedy program in 1938, Band Wagon, included musical interludes, was effectively a sitcom and set the stage for much of what came after.  By then, nearly every household had a radio.   WWII had an enormous impact on British comedy and entertainment in general.  Unlike WWI, which was fought on the continent, WWII was right on top of them, with the Blitz, blackouts, rationing, et al.  All places of amusement, which by their nature meant lots of people would gather and could be a target for bombings, were closed.  But the government soon realized comedy had an important role to play in helping its people to keep calm and carry on.  Bonus fact: The iconic 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster was designed months before WWII began, but was never officially sanctioned for display.  It only achieved its prominent position in the public imagination after its rediscovery in 2001.  All the parody t-shirts still annoy me though.   Theater was allowed to continue, but television service was suspended.  This brought radio back to the forefront for communication and diversion.  The most popular show was It's That Man Again, which ran on BBC radio from ‘39-'49.  It's humor was a great unifier during the war, helping people to laugh at the things they were scared of.  People would often listen huddled around their radio during a blackout.  In its character archetypes, it offered a more comprehensive range of social representation than what had come before it, with characters ranging from east end charwomen to the upper class.  It was so universally popular that supposedly its catch-phrases, which is regarded as the first to really succeed with, were used to test suspected German spies.  If you didn't know who said what, they'd be shot.      During the war, Britain fought back against the Nazi propagandists' ferocious scaremongering with things like a song about the fact that Hitler may or may not have only one testicle, the other of which we were storing in a London theatre for safe keeping.  This attitude, combined with having had enough authority to last them a while, would extend to their own government at the start of the 1960's when Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller made fun of the prime minister in their stage show Beyond The Fringe, with the PM in the audience.  This would open the door for satirical news programs like 1962's That Was The Week That Was, grandfather to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.  There was also The Frost Report, whose staff of writers included five names many of know well and you know we're going to get into more detail on - Chapman, Jones, Idle, Palin, and Cleese.   The war would remain subject to comedy, either as the primary setting or a recurring plot point for decades to come in shows like Dad's Army, Allo Allo, and even Are You Being Served?, one of my personal favorites.   If you've ever seen me at my customer service day jobs, I pattern my behavior on Mrs. Slocombe, though I don't reference my pussy as often. [clip]  Experiences in the war led to the prominence of absurdism/surrealism, because nothing could match what they men had been through.  One of the most famous example was The Goon Show, with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Peter Sellers.  The scripts mixed ludicrous plots with surreal humour, puns, catchphrases and an array of bizarre sound effects. Some of the later episodes feature electronic effects devised by the fledgling BBC Radiophonic Workshop, who also created the theme to Dr Who.  The Goon Show and other such programs were popular with those who were students at the time, seeding their sense of humor into the next generation.  Spike Milligan in particular had wide-reaching cultural influence.  The Goon Show was cited as a major influence by The Beatles, the American comedy team The Firesign Theatre, as well as, among many others, Monty Python.   PATREON   Do you remember how I said in episode #39, Short-Lived, Long Remembered that Jackie Gleason's Honeymooner's was the first TV sitcom?  I was mistaken and I don't mind issuing a correction.  Pinwright's Progress, which ran for ten episodes starting in 1946, was the first half-hour television sitcom, telling the tale of a beleaguered shop-owner, his hated rival and his unhelpful staff.  By 1955, ⅓ of British households had a TV.  That year saw the launch of ITV, I for independent, because it was *not run by BBC with its war vets with good-school educations, but by showmen and entertainers.  Where the BBC did comedies for and about the middle-class, ITV brought full-blooded variety to TV.  The BBC was forced to loosen its tie a bit to keep up.  ITV also had commercials, which BBC shows never did -a concept that is quite foreign to the American brain- so writers had to learn to pace their shows differently to allow for the break.  One stand-out was Hancock's Half-hour, which began on radio and moved to TV.  Fom 54-61, it pushed sitcoms with a focus on character development, rather than silly set-ups, musical interludes, and funny voices of radio plays.  Two writers on the show, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, would leave to create Comedy Playhouse in 1961, ten half-hour plays.  One of these grew into the TV show Steptoe and Son (1962–74), about two rag and bone men, father and son, who live together in a squalid house in West London.  This was the basis for the American series Sanford and Son, as well as version in Sweden, Netherlands and Portugal.  For those not in the know, a rag and bone man collected salvageable rubbish from the streets, making it a bizarre name choice for a clothing company but oh well.    The tone and offerings changed considerably with the cultural revolution of the 1960's.  Rock music, the birth control pill, civil rights, everything was changing.  Round The Horne, which aired on BBC radio on Sunday afternoons was chock full of brazen innuendos and double-entendres.  Some of them were risque to the point of being ironically safe -- people who would have objected to them were not of the sensibility to catch the joke it the first place.  Their most remarkable characters were Julian and Sandy, two very obviously gay characters in a time when it was still illegal to be gay in Britain.  Julian and Sandy got away with the bawdiest of their jokes because they spoke Polari, a pidgin language made up a words from Romani, French, Italian, theater and circus slang and even words spelled backwards.  They might refer to someone's dirty dishes and the squares would have no idea that “dish” meant derriere.  Bonus fact: You probably use Polari words without even realizing it, if you describe a masculine person as “butch” or something kitchy as “camp,” even “drag” meaning clothes, particularly women's.    The Carry On Films, a franchise that put out nearly a movie a year for three decades and spun off a TV series, held up a cartoonish mirror to the depressed and repressed Britain of the 1950s and 1960s.  They blended the rapid-fire pace of music hall sketches with topicality and a liberating sense of directness.  Carry On also filled the gap left as music halls as an institution collapsed.   Monty Python's Flying Circus aired from 69-74 and enjoyed a unique watershed success not just for British comedy but also for television comedy around the world. Monty Python was unlike anything that had appeared on television, and in many ways it was both a symbol and a product of the social upheaval and youth-oriented counterculture of the late 1960s.  The show's humour could be simultaneously sarcastic, scatological, and intellectual.  The series was a creative collaboration between Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, the sole American in a group of Oxford and Cambridge graduates.  The five Brits played most of the roles, with Gilliam primarily contributing eccentric animations.  Although sketch comedy shows were nothing new, television had never broadcast anything as untraditional and surreal, and its importance to television is difficult to overstate.  Their free-form sketches seldom adhered to any particular theme and disregarded the conventions of comedy that writers, performers and audiences had been accustomed to for generations.  Even the opening title sequence didn't follow the rules; it might run in the middle of the show or be omitted entirely.  Over the run of the series, a *few characters recurred, but most were written solely for one sketch.  The show spun-off a number of feature films, like Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979), and the Meaning of Life (1983) and even a Tony Award-winning musical comedy Spamalot, first produced in 2005, as well as books and albums like Instant Record Collection.  Decades after the show's initial run, the mere mention of some dead parrots, silly ways, Spam or the Spanish Inquisition is enough to prompt laughter from even casual fans.  All the members who continue on to successful careers, but let's follow John Cleese to his next best-known project.  I put my favorite sketch in Vodacast; see if you can guess it before you look.  And tell me yours, soc med.   Fawlty Towers has been described as the sitcom by which other sitcoms must be measured, voted number one in the BFI's 100 Greatest British Television Programmes in 2000. Its main character, Basil Fawlty, was inspired by a seethingly rude hotel proprietor John Cleese encountered while filming abroad with the Monty Python team.  Cleese actually tested the character on another show in 1971, Doctor At Large, a comedy about newly-graduated doctors, based on the books of Richard Gordon.  The setting for Fawlty Towers was a painfully ordinary hotel that Basil constantly struggling to inject a touch of class into.  His escapades included trying to hide a rat from a hygiene inspector, keeping a dead customer hidden, and pretending that his wife Sybil was ill during their anniversary party, when in fact she's walked out on him).  Basil was the perfect vehicle for Cleese's comic talents: mixing the biting verbal tirades against his wife and guests with the physical dexterity utilised to charge about between self-induced disasters.  Part of the success of the show is arguably the fact that it ran for a mere twelve episodes, so never ran out of steam.  It's been remade in other countries, but those version never really capture the success of the original.  That's one of the key differences between British and American TV series.  A British show might have 2 writers for a season of 6-10 episodes, whereas an American show will have a team of writers for a season of 13-25 episodes.  Quality over quantity, I suppose.  In part, this is a reflection of the difference between the size of the TV audience in the two countries, and the economics of television production; for decades sitcoms on US television that delivered the highest ratings, whereas; in Britain the highest ratings figures were normally for soap operas.   The tone shifted again as the 60's gave way to the 70's.  The anger of 60's revolution gave way to a more comfortable feeling in the 70's.  One of the stand-outs of the decade, which continued into the 80's, was The Two Ronnies.  A sketch show starring Ronnies Barker and Corbett, it moved away from the long-standing comic and straight-man format.  It was the BBC's flagship of light entertainment, the longest running show of its genre.  If we're talking modern comedy duos, we need to talk about Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.  Even in alternative comedy scenes, women had trouble gaining the same notoriety as their male peers.  A step in the right direction was 1987's French and Saunders, a sketch show that displayed the wilful amateurishness of much alternative comedy, but shunned both the violence and scatology or the strident politics that were staples of the big-name performers.  The duo's humour was distinctively female, but not feminist, and most of their jokes were at the expense of themselves or each other.  As audiences and budgets grew, the pair increasingly favoured elaborate spoofs of pop stars and blockbuster movies.  After the show French starred in The Vicar of Dibley and Saunders to the role she's probably best known for, Edina in Absolutely Fabulous.   And that's where we run out of ideas, at least for today.  Don't be surprised if this topic spawns a sequel.  I left out Punch and Judy, skipped right over literature, had to forgo luminaries like Morecambe and Wise, didn't get to the panel show format, and said nothing of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, which may actually be a crime, I'm not sure.  Well, it's like they say in the biz, always leave them wanting more.  Thanks for spending part of your day with em.     Sources: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/truth-behind-keep-calm-and-carry-on https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/feb/17/the-five-stages-of-british-gags-silliness-repression-anger-innuendo-fear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Wisdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock%27s_Half_Hour https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/apr/17/gender.filmnews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_the_Horne http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1011109/index.html https://www.britannica.com/topic/Monty-Pythons-Flying-Circus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galton_and_Simpson http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/fawltytowers/ http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2014/06/history-brits-better-satire https://www.britannica.com/art/music-hall-and-variety https://www.biography.com/people/charlie-chaplin-9244327 https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1107&context=ghj https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U77CXPANrCc&list=PL9e1sByp65ixpMQlW9hpMMdomwSwGK9-Y

“I'm not bent on anything!” We only have one more episode of the original series left to discuss! RuPaul's Drag Race UK AYBS reference! Wendy Richard (Miss Brahams) was on a pop song in 1962! A -fabulous- pen doodle of a Fairy House/castle with AYBS (and podcast) references from Superman and prior episode guest host Henrike! Find it on our Facebook page. Gladys Axelbell! Mike Berry was on The Voice UK and no one recognized him. Mr. Geoffrey's theories about Capt. Peacock's melting ice lolly. The transportation fares hikes have the Grace Bros team trying to find alternative ways to get to work. How do fares for the London tube work? Malaprops with Mr. Jeff: proboscis = an elephant's trunk/one's nose. Seattle Seahawks Humphries! Miss. Belfridge's flagrantly yellow umbrella that Peacock brought into work. BINGO call culture: two fat ladies, legs eleven, etc. 13: “unlucky for some”. A farewell fairy cake for Mr. Humphries. Mr. Grace offers random apartments to the staff to save on bus fare. “A bedsit” = a studio apartment. From time to time, the unit smells of curry from the Indian restaurant below. Mr. Brandon incorrectly guesses a Kath & Kim quote. Tiddles is hidden underneath a hat on the Ladies' counter. Annoying boy and his mother and his water gun. What kid plays with a clockwork mouse? Evil Mrs. Slocombe Face #EMSF. Mr. Spooner and Humphries have a marital fight. -Is- Coronation Street “common”? Inside the apartment: Slocombe throws her weight around. Humphries has babies! A hidden Murphy bed, jealous wives, and the Sweetest Little Fellow. Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #MrHumphries #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC

Felicity Slocombe, narrates her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website. Felicity shares the progress she is making in her research, and the lessons she has learned so far from analysing conversations, and pouring data aka video recordings. Find the original text, and narration here on our website. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-conversation-analysis-beginnings-tips-and-lessons-learned If you would like to write for us, or join out team of regular contributors, drop us a line - dementiaresearcher@nihr.ac.uk

“I think everything's too big!” Brandon quotes Liberace within the first two minutes of the show, a record! Does anyone in the Unanimous have an AYBS tattoo?! A 1970's Mike Berry/Mr. Spooner commercial for OSL Holidays as Stretch Armstrong that gives us nightmares. Wendy Richard AND John Inman worked at department stores before filming AYBS. The TDSM Childrens' Cricket Club of Northern Mississippi! More Unanimous Episode voicemails; keep them coming! A Dutch KLM/Grace Bros Airlines flight was diverted to the TDSM Airfield: we welcome Unanimous Superfan Henrike from The Netherlands as special cohost! (She doesn't -really- wear wooden clogs…) Henrike's favorite episode: German Week! Silly Netherlands jokes at Henrike's expense. Mike Berry and Wendy Richard are slightly late at starting the episode. Mr. Humphries in Mrs. Humphries drag! Tiddles the Cat has been trained to answer the phone. The super old school Victorian notion of the public bar vs. saloon: huh? The origin of the UK term for “the snug”. March on Amsterdam! Having dinner 5 feet away from a y-fronts display?! Tiddles has been on the phone the whole time! “Mr. Akbar, how dare you!” Humphries and Slocombe sneak around to pick up men at a truck stop? They film a commercial (which feels familiar like an episode back in Season 5). Teaching English with AYBS: probably a bad idea. The Dutch Dora the Explorer teaches English, not Spanish! Miss. Belfridge passes out …8 times. “Tog” Cockney rhyming slang pop quiz! (Think toga) Seymour from the Maintenance Department is so cute! “That's a nice looking pear” = alligator pear (avocado). Peacock reminds Mr. Brandon of John Cleese from Fawlty Towers in this episode. In the movie cinema, the all-male audience are wearing trench coats… “Those” types of cinemas… “Have they just gotten married?” Mrs. Slocombe's wig stands up! (And was John Inman pulling a string for the effect?) Their commercial only has audio and they sound like it's all a porno! Mr. Humphries, as his mother, strangely shines a flashlight/torch around. John Inman's “Odd Man Out” series is on Youtube. It's from 1977 and it's basically him being Mr. Humphries! Bedankt Henrike! Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #MrHumphries #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC

In this episode, Alice talks to Dr Emily Spiers, who is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Futures at Lancaster University; Dr Will Slocombe, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool and specialist in Science Fiction; and Lt Col Matthew Brown, Chief of Future Concepts and Strategy with the RAF (on loan from the US Air Force). All three have been collaborating on a project, led by Matthew, that uses fictional storytelling to help members of the RAF and the wider military community visualise what the future may hold. Two editions of the RAF's Stories from the Future have been published already, with more to come soon. Emily kicks the conversation off by explaining what 'futures literacy' is: a skill or capability that we can all develop to help us imagine and discuss the future and make better decisions in the present. Traditionally, futures thinking has been done by a handful of experts behind closed doors, with a particular focus on science and technology. However, momentum is shifting towards more creative and inclusive approaches, with storytelling proving to be a powerful tool that enables lots of different people to debate possible, plausible, preferable and not-so-preferable futures.  This gets us thinking about science fiction. Will discusses the 'prophetic vision' which science fiction has often been thought to have, but also its more systematic use in futures thinking in more recent years, in particular in defence and security contexts. We talk about the overlaps between 'science fiction', 'speculative fiction' and 'useful fiction'; and Matthew gives us some insights into the RAF Stories from the Future project - how it came about, its focus and aims, and what impact it has been having. As he puts it, the beauty of all the future scenarios sketched in the project is that they are 'just stories', but stories that gets people talking, thinking and projecting. Matthew talks about the rapid pace of change, recent geopolitical shifts, the growing climate crisis, and the urgency of involving more people in futures thinking as the defence and security landscapes shift. Emily discusses her work with children/young adults, and the wellbeing impacts which can result when young people feel that they have some agency in shaping potentially scary futures. We hear about the virtual 'Museum of the Future' which Emily and Will have been working on, under the direction of Jim Maltby (a Principal Scientist at the Defence Science Technology Laboratory); and Emily also discusses the Past Futures Project, which looks at history as a valuable repository of futures not taken. We end by talking about the role and responsibility of futures literacy to visualise aftermath, conflict resolution and peace-building.We hope you enjoy the episode! For a version of our podcast with close captions, please use this link. For more information about individuals and their projects, please have a look on the University of St Andrews Visualising War website.  Music composed by Jonathan YoungSound mixing by Zofia Guertin 

“We all denied everything when Mr. Bentor was fired… ” Lots of great messages from our Unanimous listeners! Captain Peacock is having marital trouble (again) thanks to Miss. Bagnold. Is Peacock going through “a change”? (And a history of transgender terms). Mr. Brandon takes AYBS a little too seriously sometimes. We see another “little girl” version of Slocombe as she snuggles with Peacock in the fitting room. The super queer sunglasses! Captain Peacock appears to be “changing” into a woman / becoming transgender as a way to put Miss. Bagnold off his scent. Mr. Humphries breaks the 4th wall again! Was Humphries' gay schtick feeling out-of-date by 1985? Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #MrHumphries #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC

Felicity Slocombe, narrates her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website. Felicity discusses the start of her work on collective remembering or co-remembering and how it can be used in interactions with people living with dementia to help support identify. Find the original text, and narration here on our website. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/do-you-remember-studying-remembering-together-using-conversation-analysis/ If you would like to write for us, or join out team of regular contributors, drop us a line - dementiaresearcher@nihr.ac.uk _____________ Don't forget to complete the ISTAART UCL Early Career Researcher Survey by 31st October - https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/survey

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Can I get a CONTENT WARNING? You sure can, and you seriously need one if you're going to listen to this around little ears, unless you like having some really interesting conversations. Okay that done, let's move on. Now if you think you're ready for Em's Favourite Episode EVER, you ain't even close to being ready, trust us. This episode we talk about Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's new song W.A.P., which doesn't stand for Wonderful And Polite. It actually stands for Wet Ass...um...Mrs. Slocombe's cat, which will only make sense if you've stumbled on an episode of “Are You Being Served?” and if you haven't, lets just say Mrs. Slocombe never called her cat, a cat. We'll also cover off the late night tweeting from Victorian Health Minister, Jenny Mikakos on Saturday night. We suspect it was done after a few vinos, she was basically apologising for the state of play in Victoria, we felt her, let's face it, we've all been there. We talk about the current facial hair situation happening on the face of Brett Sutton, and also how Michael is back on the Daniel Andrews train, Em however is reserving her judgement right now. We also get a brief mention happening over vulva beauty masks. So there is a LOT of lady area talk, which is nothing new really, but again, a little content warning for anyone listening. But ardent fans of the Emsolation podcast will not be surprised, nor will they bat a no doubt superbly manicured eyebrow about it either. So check your surrounds, and once you're sure all the ears within listening range are prepped and prepared, enjoy another walk through the Emsolation forest, and that ISN'T a euphemism, but the Mrs. Slocombe reference most certainly is See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/Emsolation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm Three… Series 3 that is, Shitcom is back and we're kicking things off with series 3 episode 8 of Are You Being Served?: New Look The staff decide to give the department store a… new look. How is Mrs Slocombe's pussy? How many times did they say ‘knickers'? Just how did that pork pie get in that hole? Join us for more of the same plus an all new format for the game. Play along with our new feature, One Foot in The Game. This week the game is ‘Are You Carrying On Being Served?' www.greatbritishshitcom.com Twitter / Instagram / Facebook @britishshitcom / #shitcom

Writer/director Will Slocombe talks about making his first feature on a shoestring budget in twelve days... starring Peter Bogdanovich.