What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel cover image

What The F*** Is Going On? with James O'Brien

What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel

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The Importance of a Northern Irish Accent

Peter Cook famously used to ring in and pretend to be a Norwegian fisherman, didn't he? They were poetry, though, weren't they? That was Clive Bull, who is absolutely one of the legends of the medium. And some of those calls from Peter Cook were things of absolute beauty. He rang into a colleague the other day, actually pretending to be someone else. But no, you got pretty good antennae. The producers. Cartel, take me to see. Right, let's try this out. You'll be on and I'm ringing in and I'm going to be Dave from Chelsea. Hi, Dave, what's on your mind? Well, I saw these,

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