27th April Radio 4 abandons European Super Leage dream


The Today program, the Archers, Desert Island Discs, MoneyBox, The Shipping Forecast and You and Yours have today abandoned plans to form a European super league of Radio programs following a host of telephone calls, e mails and texts from livid listeners. 

Fans of Book at Bedtime, Just a Minute, Women's Hour and The News Quiz all objected vorciferously to the prospect of being permenantly relegated to the 1st division of radio broadcasts with no possibility of promotion to the premier league of European daytime radio.

Amongst the radio programs across the EU That had signalled they were ready to sign up to this new venture were Italian radio favourites, 'Pasta Passion' and 'Vespa Vignettes', Spanish sitcom, 'Time for a Siesta' and its popular consumer favourite 'Costa Packet', whilst French radio had hoped to contribute 'Vin Diesel', a program that reviews appauling wines that taste like car fuel presented by a bald muscle bound film star.

Head of Radio 4, Inti Lectual Twaddle, spoke to Grace Under Pressure's very own perveyor of premium podcasts and explained, "Yes we had hoped it was the right move to make. From analog to digital and then right back to just being totally anal again but we seems to have misjudged the frequency of feeling this move would generate. So as it stands things are just static."

At the time of going to air Grace Under Pressure understands that Channel 5 will not be joining a similar EU based super league for TV programs as it was unable to find 6 things worth watching in its schedule.




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