GHAAAA Cabin Pressure Johannesburg
... and finally, props to ace Sound Engineer, the great John Whitehall, who didn't bat an eyelid when I asked him to make the sound of a bottle being fired out of the back of a plane into a BMW's windscreen... #cabinpressure pic.twitter.com/lOP3QnPVq3
— David Tyler (@DavidTylerPozz) July 26, 2020
Ok, that's it for this week - Join me next time for... my least favourite episode! In the meantime, gifts of coffee are very welcome but very much not compulsory (I mean, how would I even enforce it?) here: https://t.co/wytGVjDaEq
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
I'm not 100% sure I *specifically* agreed to let Ben finish the credits with a Spanish accent... #cabinpressure
— David Tyler (@DavidTylerPozz) July 26, 2020
Ah, the cheeky little Spanish accent on Beebeetheee! #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
My utter favourite sound, an audience suddenly seeing a key plot moment that was seeded twenty minutes earlier - in this case, the bottle cf Great Wall Of China joke/Zurich #cabinpressure
— David Tyler (@DavidTylerPozz) July 26, 2020
...but the cruel Gods of sitcom (me) have to return him to square one. Poor Martin. #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
'Happened to both of us'. So close to a breakthrough, Martin.... #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
Heh, Martin in charge! Ben enjoyed doing that scene... #cabinpressure
— David Tyler (@DavidTylerPozz) July 26, 2020
More cunning plumbing going on with 'wet car'. #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
Javiar Marzan! So funny, with so few lines! #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
The book is 'Palgrave's Golden Treasury'. Victorian anthology of poetry. #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
Sorry to make @JohnFinnemore blush, but so skillful to get laughs from Characters A & B *anticipating* what Character C will say when C's not even in the scene #cabinpressure
— David Tyler (@DavidTylerPozz) July 26, 2020
Also works for Carolyn, come to think of it. She gets to have a holiday from direct responsibility, and to be a 'merry woman'. #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
Nice to have an episode without a 'guest villain'. #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
...And here, if Douglas has to take direct responsibility, rather than 'chip in from the sidelines'. #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
So I suppose it's an exploration of what makes Martin act like Martin, and Douglas like Douglas. So, here, if Martin is actually forced to think it out... #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
This is so moving - the waiting for Douglas. #cabinpressure
— David Tyler (@DavidTylerPozz) July 26, 2020
This is the first episode in which I split up the usual pairings of Martin and Douglas, Carolyn and Arthur. I suppose the companion episode is Uskerty. #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
Martin Fenton-Stevens giving us his charming Spaniard! Comedy hero. #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
Welcome welcome to the magnificent @fentonstevens - who I first had the UTTER privilege of meeting on Radio Active... #cabinpressure
— David Tyler (@DavidTylerPozz) July 26, 2020
Some diligent set-up work going on in that jet-blast bit... #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
I realize those asbestos gloves make quite a number of appearances across the, um, oeuvre #cabinpressure
— David Tyler (@DavidTylerPozz) July 26, 2020
This is a genuine old flying school trick, I'm told. #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
Douglas and Martin are being their most Douglassy and Martinesque here, because the rest of the episode is about them not being so... #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
In fact, it bounced up out of the pond and got caught in the engine nacelle, and they found it on the next walkround #physics #cabinpressure https://t.co/1Ae4WWXA08
— David Tyler (@DavidTylerPozz) July 26, 2020
Did he fly to Barrow to pick up the carp, do we think? Or get it sent to him? #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
Squeee, one of my favourite pauses #cabinpressure
— David Tyler (@DavidTylerPozz) July 26, 2020
Which would, to be fair, be equally unpleasant https://t.co/4fLTC5hPK5
— David Tyler (@DavidTylerPozz) July 26, 2020
Yoghurt plus time, by the way. Not thyme. #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
Ah, early seeds of a game that was later to consume them for the duration of Wokingham... #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
This is a style of sketch I like to call the 'Ah, come in, Perkins'. (Also known, I believe as 'You wanted to see me, Prime Minister?') #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
Hmmmm don't tell 'em #cabinpressure https://t.co/Sz3rL4PJq1
— David Tyler (@DavidTylerPozz) July 26, 2020
Carolyn uncharacteristically mixed up about her directions, there. Barrow is of course NW of Fitton, and Paris is SE. #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
I don't know where Arthur learnt to talk like that. Probably Ipswich. #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020
Just a few minutes to go before we live tweet this week's #cabinpressure so here's a picture of a noise to whet your appetites... pic.twitter.com/F8qGo3BAFl
— David Tyler (@DavidTylerPozz) July 26, 2020
The Cabin Pressure episode Johannesburg is about to start on Radio 4. I will tweet along on this thread, David Tyler will do the same from his mountain fastness at @DavidTylerPozz #cabinpressure
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) July 26, 2020