Jad Abumrad
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Appearances Over Time
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Well, as Stephen Grenfell has just told you, life's been quite exciting for us.
There were all these things that meant it should never have worked on radio.
my grandfather is in the studio on the stage and my grandma i'm sorry to say leslie isn't here she was often somewhere dramatic as a nut in the studio somewhere exotic one time she was in a diving diving bell she was underwater at the bottom of a test tank one time she was in the tower of london are you there leslie in the tower yes i'm here
So your grandpa is on stage and your grandma, you're saying, is in a tower by phone?
Now, this is back in the time when microphones were the size of small melons.
There'd be a microphone set up in the Tower of London.
My grandfather then comes on the air and sets up a series of telepathy tests that they're going to enact.
So there was a famous one called the book test and this is where a member of the audience would come up to the stage and there'd be a pile of books and they'd randomly pick up a book, randomly open to a page and point to a line.
Now... Completely random bit of text selected out of a stack of books.
After the text had been chosen and only then... I shall now call in the Tower of London.