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dangermouse
30-03-2008, 08:33 PM
Fit of giggles for BBC newsreader
Saturday, 29 March 2008 10:59

The BBC switchboard was said to be in 'meltdown' after a newsreader collapsed in a fit of giggles in the middle of a bulletin yesterday.

Charlotte Green had just introduced an item about the oldest known recording of the human voice on the Radio 4 Today programme.

As the recording of a woman singing the French song Clair de Lune, made in 1860, played, somebody in the studio apparently whispered in her ear that it sounded like a bee buzzing in a bottle.


The result was an uncontrollable fit of the giggles from Ms Green as she announced the death of screenwriter Abby Mann.

Thousands of callers asked to hear a repeat performance.


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Listen here :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X7FV_rGKig

2013
31-03-2008, 01:56 AM
Sounded like the next newsreader was about to start as well :D
what i found interesting is how they scratched soundwaves onto smoke blackened paper t omake the recording in the first place ? Reminds me of that x -files episode where they had the voice of jesus recorded into grooves on an ancient jar .Still would like to know ho they did the paper thing though:D