Show guide
10th March

Vodka Death

Who?
Mark, Tom, Rob Reames, Julie Lovell
Rob Reams (URE Head of News) fills in for Ashley Amos

What happened?
Julie Lovell steps into Alex Berry�s shoes
M: We have a replacement female today
She had actually been on air almost all day, having done a breakfast show, and a protest show about domestic services.
J: It�s part of my concealed plan for world domination.
M: It�s very badly concealed, as you keep on telling everyone at every possible instance.

Its really sunny, and we declare today the first day of Summer, and celebrate by playing Dance Hall Orchestra Numbers of the 1920s. We put the speaker out for people to hear, which scares me. We all drink nice SOFT drinks. OK. Not beer. At all.
After John Craven appears on �This is Your Life�, I wonder to myself what �Wes Craven�s Newsround� would have sounded like. We later act this out.
Ironically, on the day that George Best is admitted to hospital with liver failure (he�ll be-er teetotaller�) , Rob gleefully accepts our Friday Challenge to drink a (generous) shot of vodka after every news broadcast. We conclude that Rob makes a worthy substitute for Ash.
M: Ashley is 1 in a million.
J: So, what, there�s  35 more like him?!

Mark proposes that if he slurs his words enough, he might get the Radio1 breakfast show after Zoe Ball. Tom points out, fairly, that I look nothing like Zoe.
R: That was a poor link (appauling) <Rob is very pleased by this pun>
Our antics attract a large audience (including ex-producer Kirsty). Rob is bet 50p by Alex Gener that he can�t bolt an entire glass of vodka. Rob admirably polishes it off in one. Rob handles his last news well, and even comes up with a new pun (a close shave for Victor Kyam). Rob does begin to waffle somewhat randomly, and we speculate that he may be turning into Ashley.
Equation:  Ashley = Rob + vodka

Mark, after much build up delivers his John McCain pun:
M: After McCain is knocked out of the presidential race�do you suppose that he has a chip on his shoulder.

Robs increasingly drunk state is apparent in his enthusiasm for my suggestion that he follows in John Cravens steps and has a show called 'Rob's Roundup'
We decide that Rob is putting us to shame, and we have a round the world shot match of vodka. However we then decide that the bottle must be finished off. At this point Tom chickens out. Mark starts with a generous glass, and nearly kills himself. The vodka is finished. We are all happy and drunk, and go boogie at the Lemmy.

The Friday challenge:
After every news broadcast, Rob must drink a shot of vodka.

Best quote?
R: This is more than dangerous. This is the last third of the Smirnof Red.
J: The bottle has been sentenced to death.
M: Like a Gurka, who has unsheathed his sword, the vodka cannot be returned until it is empty.

Top tune:
Looper with �Columbo�s Car�

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