The Great Kettle Experiment
Heard that we boiled a kettle on Radio 4 but missed the experience of waking up to it?
Let us recreate it for you.
During the boil, what were you thinking? Here's what fellow listeners had on their minds last week...
They've put the microphone too close to that kettle, thinks Pam, a retired ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ sound supervisor.
Roger worries he's been 'damaged forever' by going on a safety course. He can't stop asking: "Was a qualified person in charge of the studio kettle?"
Mick is transported back 45 years to North Wales and a scattering of small tents by a stream where he collects fresh water for the first brew of the day.
"What on Earth could the word "kettle" mean?" asks Frenchman Alain, he listens to iPM to improve his English.
Sally's head is itching. She must have caught lice from my daughter, she decides.
Tony imagines the one-and-a-half day journey that the Welsh water has taken to reach his Birmingham tap.
"What would the experience of drowning be like?" wonders Elspeth.
Richard returns to his childhood in Beirut and the first time he saw a dead body. His nanny's grandfather was laid out on a bed, his stockinged feet held together with a safety pin.
Alan's thoughts bounce from the wounds he received on D-Day and his long battle to secure a blue parking badge for his car.
Janie thinks angrily about Mark Thompson and the axing of the UK Theme. She used to dream a little while listening to it.
I never just sit and let my mind wander, realises Nick. He wonders if he's missing out on something that might be beneficial.
Ian works out the total of time he's spent with his daughter since her GCSEs finished. It's about 20 minutes and most of that was while giving her a lift to yet another party.
Bob suddenly remembers that it's Armed forces day and wonders if his old uniform still fits.
"What's the email address?" thinks Geoff. Is it iPM or iPN? Eddie should use the phonetic alphabet. India papa mike or india papa november.
Edwin tries to tot up how much licence fee money is being wasted on broadcasting a boiling kettle.
What's playing on Radio 2, thinks Gary. Two Tribes by Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
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