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Features on the Show.

So what kind of interesting stuff went on when Bods got on air? Well... not much...

The Sunday Anti-Climax

Actually, we have to be honest - there were very few features at all on the Sunday Anti-Climax unless you class Andrew being a bad DJ as a feature, which most people no doubt wouldn't. To be fair, we did have a phone in one week where we played the subliminal parlour game, Mornington Crescent, made famous by the Radio Four show, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. Okay, it wasn't original at all. But we did it anyway.

The only real feature really was the The Hangover Cure. Every week the show would start off with some gentler tunes - not too loud and not too many beats, in an attempt to ease those people who'd had a heavy night, the evening before, gently into Sunday. At 12:30 we'd play our most relaxing tune, then play one less relaxing and build people up to the third, rockier tune. And that was it. For the rest of the show, the music stayed louder and more upbeat. What a concept.

It was such a good concept that we ditched it on the third show and replaced it with The Depression Cure which was just an excuse to play a depressing song by Tindersticks and a jolly tune by the Pizzicato Five as well as somet else in the middle. What that other track was, who knows - we haven't got a copy of the show with us as we right and the copies of the running order for that show seem to have been consigned to oblivion. Still, ya godda laugh.

Wake Up With Bods

Friday mornings tended to get a hell of a lot more features - it was a handy way of breaking up the show....

The show had a number of musical features, most of which were just blatant excuses to play funky records. Every week we'd have Bods's Big One - the funkiest song we could find that was released that week.

We also had The Folkin' Good Tune - basically an excuse to play Steel Eye Span at 7:45 on a Friday morning, although we also played Beth Orton's luvly track Someone's Daughter. It was just this feature that led to the now infamous All Around My Hat incident...

Other musical features included Without Wires saw us play lovely acoustic versions of some of our fave tracks. And who can forget, The Wake Up Song with tracks with the words 'Wake Up' in the title. So that was Wake Up Boo by the Boo Radleys, The Wake Up Bomb by REM, and the unforgettable Wake Up Little Suzy where middle aged rockers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel sang about fancying a girl at school.

Our quizzes were also very popular, including our first day quiz Phone In To Win, where we invited anyone listening at 6:30 in the morning, to phone in and win a naff record. Sadly someone did and Edwin Brady became the owner of some very dodgy looking CDs. The following week, we had the unforgettable Pick Your Fish which is so important, it has its own page.

As well as all that, we had sketches like The Bill, Eastwood, The Love Spot (with that Madge Woman From Neighbours). There are transcripts of these in the sketches section. There was also such quality features like Snow update (yep, it's still snowing) and Gifts From The Hild Bede Porter, a feature celebrating the freebies given to us and many Purple FM DJs by the night porter of the College of St Hild and St Bede. Eeh, the showbiz life style eh?

Bods On The Wireless
Introduction
About the Show
The Presenters
On The Show
On the Show
Pick Your Fish
PYF Game One
PYF Game Two
All Around My Hat
Sketches
Play Pick Your Fish

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