Chapter 1: What are the benefits of gamifying admin tasks with Octopus Energy?
The Rest is Entertainment is presented by Octopus Energy. Now, they've looked at admin and decided it should behave much more like a game show.
When you provide your meter readings, they will give you a spin of a wheel, which allows you to win prizes, allows you to win Octo Points, which you can spend in the Shoptopus. Yeah, it's the gamifying of the boring bits of your admin. Now, listen, you know how much I love Octopus Energy. The prizes, I'm going to say, are not quite up to the standard of the Wheel of Fortune.
The biggest ever prize on the Wheel of Fortune... So over $1 million. What feels more similar is some of the random prizes they'll get on the Wheel of Fortune. They've had ceramic Dalmatians. I saw one where you could win a Gucci calculator. You think, okay, that's two of my favorite things. There was an Onyx bin.
Yeah, again, I'm not dissing the prizes, but I would have probably gone for the Dalmatian.
None of these things you have to worry about with Octopus Energy. It is simply octa points to spend in the shop.
Well, you have to submit your meter reading to earn a spin. And then you get prizes you don't actually have to persuade yourself you want, like money off your next bill.
You can get £1,000 off your bill. If you get the top prize, which is 800,000 octa points, £1,000 off your bill, just on the spin of a wheel.
Hello and welcome to this episode of the Rest is Entertainment Questions and Answers Edition. I'm Marina Hyde.
And I'm Richard Osman. Hello everybody. Hello Marina.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of production quality in House of Commons footage?
You can obviously have no shots of documents of any kind. And it's, as I say, it's got to be sort of medium angle shot where you can.
And this includes in the select committees that
Yes, all of it is very, and it's kind of largely the same because you've got a speaker and someone who might be being referred to. So you're in general switching between a kind of medium angle thing and a wide thing, never close up and never split screen. That's like, you can't have anything like that.
I mean, it was absolutely transformative for the darts, split screen. Maybe it could be transformative for democracy.
The darts, so much you believe could flow from darts. So many things could be made better by adopting more of the conventions of the darts.
Well, listen, liberal democracy is in crisis. I agree. I just say, why not throw a few balls in the air?
Yeah. You can occasionally in the chamber have panning shots along the benches, but only really occasionally. And it's a whole sort of special permission thing.
Christopher Nolan did the thing when, because he directed for a day, didn't he? And he turned the whole thing into like a tombola. And so it was like a Jamiroquai video. That I liked.
That was a great day.
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Chapter 3: How does a ghostwriter's role impact the success of a celebrity's book?
But yeah, it's not going to look like that.
It's not. One thing that therefore I would say is that I absolutely adore the work of something that is such a unique thing in our country, which is the sketch writers. And they can, when it's done brilliantly, there's so many great sketch writers. You know, I love Tom Peck in The Times, John Crazen, The Guardian, Rob Hutton, The Critic. I loved Madeleine Grant's Spectator.
I love her ones in The Spectator. And the ones, the one of that committee that you were talking about, the Ollie Robbins one was so good. And I haven't spoken to her about it, but I would say that probably what she's done is, She's probably done this subconsciously because, by the way, you have to file it so quickly after it's all over.
But the reason her one was really good of Ollie Robbins is because I think she subconsciously probably thought, you know, you're thinking it conforms to the conventions of a sitcom. or ideally a sitcom, really, which is that you've got two lead characters here, Emily Thornberry and Ollie Robbins. The rest are just sort of bit bars.
And everybody doesn't like a third character who's not on screen, and that's why it's funny, who is Keir Starmer. And it all sort of works because... because they conform to the conventions of a sitcom, but they also tell you things that you can't see because of the way it has been filmed. As you say, it's this very dry way of filming.
And so what I love is when the sketch writers who are in the room, and if they're not in the room, people always say, oh, you can do it from the TV. I've done occasionally had to do sketches from the TV for one reason or another. You're not allowed into the room when you're on the election trail. It's always worse. It's always so much better. It's like covering sport.
Yes, technically you could cover a golf tournament off the TV, but it's nothing like doing it when you're there.
I really value the work of our sketch writers particularly because they give you the little details, the little bits, what people were doing when the camera, you know, which you'd never know what the other committee members were doing, who was getting everything off their phone, who wasn't really concentrating. And I really value that particular thing. And it's funny because...
It's not something that other countries particularly have. It's just a British thing. And so those accounts, which often come out really soon after they've happened, are a very good window into the actual drama and the actual, you know, they have higher production values, if we could put it that way.
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