THE BURKISS WAY

OLD TIME RADIO - 1 CD - 46 mp3 - Total Playtime: 20:03:21

The Burkiss Way To Dynamic Living is the product of the disordered mads of brain-men Marshall, Andrew and Renwick, David. Spinning off from two half-hour specials the pair had written spoofing the Open University educational programming (under the title 'Half-Open University') The Burkiss Way was initially presented as 'the first correspondence course for radio', supposedly delivering a set of life-lessons devised by one Professor Emil Burkiss, with each episode tackling a different subject encapsulated in its title: Peel Bananas The Burkiss Way, Solve Murders The Burkiss Way, etc.

Over the course of the first series, which starred Chris Emmett, Nigel Rees, Fred Harris and Denise Coffey, the show's adherence to this conceit gradually loosened; By the middle of the second series (in which Denise Coffey was permanently replaced by I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again's Jo Kendall) the idea had been abandoned completely except as a vague Framing Device to be called on whenever the writers felt like it, and the show had taken on its true form as a surreal, absurdist sketch show mingling satire, parody, innuendo, and Pythonesque deconstruction of the radio medium itself.

The show developed an immediate cult following, its recording sessions attracting audiences so large they starting spilling out of the seats and onto the stage. Unfortunately, its chances of a breakthrough to mainstream popularity were scuppered somewhat when it and everything else on radio were overshadowed by the blockbuster mega-success of the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The fact that Douglas Adams had contributed several sketches to early shows didn't stop them thereafter spoofing it and him (as "Mr. Different Adams") from an only semi-fake position of bitterness and jealousy. It also really didn't help that Adams had explicitly based the character and temperament of Marvin the Paranoid Android on that of Andrew Marshall, who was naturally inclined to revenge.

EPISODES LIST

Burkiss 760827 - (01) Peel Bananas
Burkiss 760903 - (02) Pass Examinations
Burkiss 760910 - (03) Burkiss Special w James Burkiss
Burkiss 760917 - (04) Solve Murders
Burkiss 760924 - (05) Keep Unfit
Burkiss 761001 - (06) Win Awards
Burkiss 761215 - (07) Influence Friends & Win People
Burkiss 761222 - (08) Plan Christmas Schedules
Burkiss 761229 - (09) Gain Spiritual Fulfilment
Burkiss 770105 - (10) Govern Great Britain the Burkiss Way
Burkiss 770112 - (11) Journey Into the Unknown
Burkiss 770119 - (12) Make Short Comedy Programs
Burkiss 770126 - (13) Commemorate Jubilees
Burkiss 770202 - (14) Do You Know What
Burkiss 770209 - (15) Skive from School
Burkiss 770216 - (16) Get Off with Life
Burkiss 770223 - (17) This is Your Life
Burkiss 770302 - (18) Become a Rock Star
Burkiss 770309 - (19) Replace the Burkiss Way
Burkiss 771115 - (20) Discover Gravity
Burkiss 771122 - (21) Get Cut Off
Burkiss 771129 - (22) Succeed in Business
Burkiss 771206 - (23) Son of the Burkiss Way
Burkiss 771213 - (24) One Hour to the Burkiss Way
Burkiss 771220 - (25) Not to be Opened Until Christmas
Burkiss 771227 - (26) First Prize the Burkiss Way
Burkiss 780103 - (27) Around the World the Burkiss Way
Burkiss 780110 - (28) Ignore These Program Titles
Burkiss 780117 - (29) Complain About the Burkiss Way
Burkiss 780124 - (30) Not the Burkiss Way
Burkiss 780131 - (31) Bruce's Choice Part 1
Burkiss 780131 - (32) New Series Part 2
Burkiss 780207 - (33) The Last
Burkiss 780214 - (34) The Next to Last
Burkiss 780416 - (37) Is Britian Going Pt 1
Burkiss 790402 - (35) Remember the Burkiss Way
Burkiss 790409 - (36) Rise from the Grave
Burkiss 790430 - (39a) Repeat Yourself
Burkiss 790507 - (39B) Repeat Yourself
Burkiss 790514 - (40) Avoid Like the Plague the Burkiss Way
Burkiss 791226 - (41) Eric Pode of Croydon's Easter Special
Burkiss 801026 - (44) Love Big Brother
Burkiss 801101 - (45) Write Extremely Long Titles
Burkiss 801101 - (47) Wave Goodbye to CBEs
Burkiss xxxxxx - (A1) Half-Open University
Burkiss xxxxxx - (A2) Half-Open University

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