The inspiration for Windsor Radio comes from the odd fact that many years ago on BBC Radio there used to be a great programme called "Educating Archie." Great stars of the past appeared on it but the strange thing was that the main character, Archie, was a ventriloquist's' dummy.
Ventriloquists are not popular nowadays. The artist would come on stage with a dummy and do an act with it. The good ones would even pretend to lose their temper and lock the dummy in a case and throw their voices to make you think it was in there. The artist's lips were not supposed to move and you could become convinced by the best that the dummy was real.
But Educating Archie was on radio. You couldn't see the artist, a Peter Brough. That's weird.
So soop thought if a ventriloquist why not a radio mime artist? Silent radio. No chattering disc jockeys like the one one on Radio Berkshire who actually called a candidate at the last elelction a nutter. Either they are all nutters are none are.
So no mindless adverts for things you cannot afford, with people pretending to be excited about a car or bag of crisps
Programmes for Today and every day.
6.am News and Weather.
Marcel will mime the main news of the day. Usually Marcel does a war or disaster somewhere. War is God's way of teaching us geography
The Weather. Marcel will mime the weather. Man walking against the wind. Man shivering. Man fanning himself. Man with umbrella.
6.30 am. Religious Broadcast. Bro. Thomas Thomas on why he became a Trappist monk.
7.am Music. Shubert's Unstarted Symphony.
9. am A reading from the Wit and Wisdom of Prince Philip.
10.am Play. Shakespeares Romeo and Tracy.
11.am Art The greatest art treasures from the National Gallery displayed for Windsor Radio.
12 noon. The Marcel L'Aise Show. Man using telephone box.
Man riding bicycle. Man reading newspaper.
1 p.m. Marcel mimes reading today's newspaper.
2.pm. Music. The holes in the top Twenty CD'. D.J. Marcel L'aise.
3 p.m. Thought for the day by President Bush.
3.01 p.m. Documentary. A history of the toilet brush by a man who knows nothing about toilet brushes.
4.pm. Display of the flags of all nations.
5.p.m. Talk. Australia's greatest philosophers.
6. p.m. News. Marcel mimes man reading the evening newspapers.
6.30 p.m. Music Concerto for unstringed violin. By Salvador Dali. Orchestra the Milton Keynes Philamonic.
8. P.m. History. The actual sound of the Great Crash
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9. p.m. Music. Tchaikovsky's 1813 Overture.
10 P.m. Close
10.05 Re-open
10.10 Close again
10.15 Re-open again for bits forgotten. Marcel mimes the silent movie version of God Save the Queen.
Tomorrows programmes. Same as today but in reverse order.
