Absolute Power (UK Radio) and Big Brother (UK TV)

[thwartme]

I'm hoping a UK Doper can fill me in here.

I just listened to an episode of "Absolute Power", the BBC radio series via their Listen Again service here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/index.shtml?button) .

In the current episode, the PR firm represents a contestant from the UK show "Big Brother". It sounds like they're calling her "Toggle". I was wondering if that's a real person, or if it's a character they made up for the show.

I tried googling, but turned up nothing...

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
thwartme

[jjimm]

Just listened to a bit of the episode (difficult to find!), it is a made-up name. Some of the contestants in recent years have had stupid names/nicknames, and "Toggle" is a pastiche of this. I'm trying to remember the one whose name most closely resembles Toggle, but can't remember, although in the past there was a Kitten, and I think there's one in the current series called Spiral.

[jjimm]

Bubble! That's who I was thinking of. Idiot contestant with stupid nickname.

[thwartme]

Thanks, jjimm. I kind of guessed it was made up, but I felt I might have been missing a joke...

Thanks,
thwartme

[lynne-42]

We are getting Absolute Power here in Australia as a TV series. Are you listening to the sound track of that, or have they done a radio series as well?

What a sad world it would be without British humour!

[Szlater]

We are getting Absolute Power here in Australia as a TV series. Are you listening to the sound track of that, or have they done a radio series as well?

What a sad world it would be without British humour!

Like many British comedy series such as "Little Britain" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/littlebritain.shtml), "Have I Got News for You" (as "The News Quiz" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/newsquiz.shtml)) and "Deadringers" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/deadringers.shtml), "Absolute Power" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/absolute.shtml) started out as a radio programme and then made the move to BBC 2 (TV).

Radio 4 is a great place to spot the next big thing in BBC comedy before it hits TV, their 6.30pm weekday comedy spot is nearly always worth listening to.

Two long running series I wish would make the jump are Punt & Dennis' "The Now Show" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/nowshow.shtml), and Marcus Brigstocke's "The Museum of Everything" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/museumofeverything.shtml) but I don't see that happening to either of them anytime soon.

[lynne-42]

Szlater - Thanks heaps. I had no idea. Now to find the time to listen to them all! We're getting Extras soon. Hope it is as good as The Office!

Lynne