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  • Dollop 58 – A Hastily Written Weird Tangential Fictitious Account Of Tony Blackburn’s Sacking By the BBC (I’ve always been one for a catchy title)

    Download the audio version of today’s Dollop here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop58.mp3 Getting sacked from the BBC must be a surreal experience. You have to keep popping back into your old place of work repeatedly in order to do radio and TV interviews with the BBC about being sacked. Tomorrow Tony Blackburn appears on BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting…

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  • Dollop 57 – Mavis Crumble’s Fart Game, And A Song About Myspace I Wrote Ten Years Ago

    Today’s Dollop is an audio Dollop, featuring a new exciting game and a song about Myspace that I recorded ten years ago when it was relevant. Download it here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop57.mp3 Back tomorrow.

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  • Dollop 56 – Featuring David Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn, Tony Blackburn And Peter Kay

    Download the audio version of today’s Dollop here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop56real.mp3 Great news, yesterday’s Dollop gained the attention of comedian Peter Kay. He’s apparently been searching for a variation on his famous garlic bread routine, but has never found the right combination of words. But then Peter found yesterday’s Dollop and this has seemingly put an end…

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  • Dollop 55 – Revenge Is A Dish Best Served with Vegetables

    Download the audio version of today’s Dollop here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop55.mp3 I’ve had another run-in with Jools. I’ve talked about Jools a few times in these Dollops. She has been a reader of these Dollops since the very beginning, and she’s commented on almost every one of them. I think she’s probably read them all. Many of…

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  • Dollop 54 – Meet David Illegal! My Criminal Alter Ego

    Download the audio version of today’s Dollop here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop54.mp3 This train is certainly making its presence felt, shaking my hands up and down even more than the Sheffield buses, meaning that I am constantly typing misplaced letters. I’m heading back from Manchester, where I’ve just had a brush with the law. Granted, it wasn’t a…

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  • Dollop 53 – Well You Know What They Say About Peas

    Download today’s Dollop in audio form here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop53.mp3 I’ve just come back from Sainsbury’s. Oh yes, fasten your seat belts folks, it’s going to be one hell of a Dollop; I’ve really hooked you in with that opening sentence, haven’t I. “Damn! I’ve got a mountain of things to do before bed, and I really…

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  • Dollop 52 – Fairy Tales

    Download the audio version of today’s Dollop here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop52.mp3 Well I was massively impressed/concerned about Sean’s aptitude when it came to discussing flowers and decorations with the staff at the wedding fair. I tried to look as if I understood all the different options that we were being presented with. I just kept nodding away…

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  • Dollop 51 – A Proposition For Tony Blackburn

    Download the audio version of today’s Dollop here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop51.mp3 In the taxi on the way to the train station, the driver was listening to BBC Radio 2, and the show was being presented by Tony Blackburn. I can’t believe he still talks in that voice. Fair enough, when he first started in broadcasting over fifty…

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  • Dollop 50 – It Might Sound Crazy What I’m About To say

    Download the audio version of today’s Dollop here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop50.mp3 My housemate Ben works as a music technology teacher. He is currently at home as it’s half term, and is marking the student’s work, which is a rock & roll pastiche of Happy by Pharrell Williams. For the last two days I’ve heard hours and hours…

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  • Dollop 49 – Meet Rebecca Slater

    Download the audio version of today’s Dollop here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop49.mp3 Today, I came across an old memory stick with a load of random things on, including a number of songs that I recorded between 2000 and 2006, age 15 to 21. Most of them will never see the light of day, and for good reason, but…

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