• M.I'5`Perse cution ` Cap ital R adio - Chri s Ta rrant

    From vefivmei@vefivmei@lycos.com to alt.bbs.allsysop,alt.bbs.doors,alt.bbs.internet,alt.bbs.lists,alt.beer on Tue Jan 1 09:16:00 2008
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    Capital Radio DJs have been "in on. it" from the start. One of the first
    things I heard in the summer of 1990 was from. a Capital DJ who said, "If
    he listens to Capital then. he can't be all bad" (supportive, you see. We're not bastards). Much of what came over the radio in. 1990 is now so far away
    the precise details have been obliterated by time. No diary. was kept of the details, and although archives. if they exist may give pointers, the
    ambiguity of what broadcasters said. would leave that open to re-interpretation.

    In spring 1994, Chris Tarrant on his Capital morning show made an. aside to someone else in the studio, about a person he didn't identify.. He said,
    "You know this bloke? He says we're trying. to kill him. We should be done
    for. attempted manslaughter".

    That mirrored something. I had said a day or two before. What Tarrant said
    was understood by. the staff member in the studio he was saying it to; they said, "Oh no, don't say that" to Tarrant. If. any archives exist of the
    morning show (probably unlikely) then it could be found. there; what he said was so out of context that he would be very hard put to. find an explanation.
    A couple of. days later, someone at the site where I was working repeated the remark although in a different way; they said there had been people. in a computer room when automatic fire extinguishers went off and. those people
    were "thinking of suing for attempted. manslaughter".

    Finally, this isn't confined to the established. radio stations. In 1990
    after I had listened to a pirate radio station in South London. for about
    half. an hour, there was an audible phone call in the background, followed
    by total silence for. a few moments, then shrieks of laughter. "So what are
    we supposed to say now? Deadly torture? He's going. to talk to us now, isn't he?", which meant that they could hear what. I would say in my room.

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