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-= Capital. Radio - Chris Tarrant -=
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Capital Radio DJs. have been in on it from the start. One of the first
things I heard in the summer of. 1990 was from a Capital DJ who said, If
he listens to Capital then he cant be all bad. (supportive, you see. Were
not. bastards). Much of what came over the radio in 1990 is now so far away
the. precise details have been obliterated by time. No diary was kept of the
details, and although archives if they exist may give pointers,. the
ambiguity. of what broadcasters said would leave that open to
re-interpretation.

In spring. 1994, Chris Tarrant on his Capital morning show made an aside to
someone else in. the studio, about a person he didnt identify. He said,
You know this bloke? He says were trying to kill him. We. should be done
for. attempted manslaughter.

That mirrored something I had said a day or two before. What. Tarrant said
was understood by the staff member in the studio he was saying it. to; they
said,. Oh no, dont say that to Tarrant. If any archives exist of the
morning show (probably unlikely) then. it could be found there; what he said
was so out of context that. he would be very hard put to find an explanation.
A couple of days later, someone at the site where I. was working repeated the
remark although in a different way; they said there had been people in. a
computer. room when automatic fire extinguishers went off and those people
were thinking of suing for attempted. manslaughter.

Finally, this isnt confined to the established. radio stations. In 1990
after I had listened to a pirate radio station in. South London for about
half an hour, there was an audible phone call. in the background, followed
by total silence for a few moments, then shrieks. of laughter. So what are
we supposed to say now? Deadly torture?. Hes going to talk to us now, isnt
he?, which meant that they could hear what I would. say in my room.

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