Writing radio sketches isn't easy. Writing good ones is even harder, as the sketch writing team for Wake Up With Bods found out. Even harder than this, is writing good sketches and actually getting a good cast to act them out. Unfortunately, on Wake Up With Bods there were neither good sketches, nor good sketch writers...
When we look at Mancunian rap DJ legend, Eastwood, it is perhaps worth noting that Eastwood appeared on Purple FM in Durham literally about six months before Ali G appeared on TV. This is worth remembering... Alas, Eastwood never made it to TV, unlike Ali. And with actors and scripts like these, is it surprising?
Despite the fact that five sketches were written, only two were ever broadcast. A third would have been done if we could have got the Queen to star in it... You can read the transcripts. Eastwood was written by Catherine Redfern, with Andrew Bowden taking the roll of Eastwood.
No radio station would be complete without a soppy record played for some soppy couple who are just so overwhelmingly in love. In 1998 this roll was fulfilled by Dr Love with his Love Show which came directly after The Anti-Climax, but when Dr Love hung up his stethoscope and white coat, his mantle was passed on to the Wake Up With Bods team, who flew in, at great expense, That Madge Woman From Neighbours with her seductive voice, to help the team out... Unfortunately, her professional quality acting had no chance of saving this feature...
You can read the transcripts. Both sketches were written by Andrew Bowden, and performed by Andrew Bowden and Catherine Redfern.