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Bragging Rights UK. 5 Rounds of civil war, confusion and tom foolery! A battle of the North West with Manchester taking on local rivals Liverpool. Hosted by Ian Threlfall.

Bragging Rights UK. 5 Rounds of civil war, confusion and tom foolery! The south of England takes to the field with the Brighton Boys taking on conservative Cambridge. Hosted by Ian Threlfall.

Music this week including Lee Broderick, Ed Croft, Maressa Curran, The Beehives, The Branco Heist and more. Includes the first in the Liverpool Radio Play Series, Culture by Richard Shaw.

Show 4: Technology (23/03/2007)

Featuring: Rich Green, Charlie mosesson, Danny Higgott, Chessie Davis, and Dan Pate (Producer)

Flat 29 get high-tech all over your ass this week, and take a look at the many ways technology affects our lives.... This show features Charlie and Chessie Googlewhacking until they can Googlewhack no more, as well as discussion of the latest technological developments, obscure patents, and a solution to global warming. In addition to this, Flat 29 finally find the "best" invention, rendering all others obselete!

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Show 2: The Animal Kingdom (9/03/2007)

Featuring: Rich Green, Charlie mosesson, Adam Miller, and Dan Pate (Producer)

This week Flat 29 discuss "The Animal Kingdom", featuring stories, facts, and even poetry covering everything from the lowly spider, to the mighty slug. Over the course of the show, Charlie is forced to consume the contents of the enormous "Animal themed confectionary hamper", Rich reveals worrying facts about pigeons and McDonalds, Adam rebels against censorship, and Dan plays clips from some wonderful animal-based CDs.

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The second in a series of 10 radio plays produced in conjunction with Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse.

The series of plays are based around the theme of '08' the Liverpool Capital of Culture year. Many of them embarking on their first radio play project, each of the playwrights interprets the theme in a completely different way.

The series was produced by LIPA Radio for the 2008 season and were recorded in LIPA by Rob Whitworth.

How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients

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Its not often that you see full scale production brought to Edinburgh. It is even rarer to see one brought all the way from Los Angeles, the production succeed in bringing its production values as well. This is by no means an easy show to understand but the company do well to portray the main messages the piece has to offer, even if the nuances would take more than one viewing.

Bloggers - Real Internet Diaries

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Blogging is no longer a new concept however Oliver Mann breaths new life into the blogosphere by adapting 10 british blogs for the stage. There were some real laugh out loud moments from the cast of five who bring to life the personal diaries of a verity of interesting characters. Although it is scary at times to think these are real people the play has a quick pace and your interest is held by character such as the agoraphobic sex line operator. The show has some amusingly explicit moments, including detailed descriptions of a bisexual business man's conquests, making the show not one for the kids.

Ewan Spence

Ewan was one of the pioneers of podcasting and was the co-founder of The Podcast Network, the first commercial podcasting network in February. By the time that August of that year had blown around he had decided he was going to take on the mamoth task of being the Fringe's first podcaster, a feat I tried to emulate in 2006, and managed to gain a fair amount of notoriety around the place for doing so.

Free Fringe

The Free Fringe began in 1996, founded by Peter Buckley Hill, with his show Peter Buckley Hill And Some Comedians.

Peter saw the Fringe as it then was: performers losing thousands of pounds, venues with four or five people in them, and complaints about high ticket prices. He saw that this was a vicious cycle. As costs to the performers rose, ticket prices rose. As ticket prices rose, fewer people went to shows and even fewer went to shows by artists they hadn't heard of.

An Asylum on Every Corner

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James Michalos decided to write a musical about mental illness after reading a newspaper article about it. The results take the audience through the daily lives of Ashford Dell, a care home for the mentally ill. The plot follows the dilemmas of the centre's owner as he toils over selling the land the centre is built on or furthering the good work his mother started.

News Revue

NewsRevue originated as an afterthought. Two writers from a London university revue group, Mike Hodd and Jack Thorington, had spent a year submitting material with varied success to BBC Radio 4's Week Ending. The group was going to Edinburgh with the usual university revue offering of late night tosh, and a selection from the material prepared for Week Ending was cobbled together at the last minute, directed by Tim Miller, for a lunch-time show. It opened on 18th August 1979 at the unpromising time of 1:30pm at the Royal Arch Halls on Queens Street.