- Stop the Week
"Stop the Week" was a long running
BBC Radio 4 discussion programme chaired by Robert Robinson which ran from 1974-1992Origins
The BBC Radio's Current Affairs Department decided that it wanted a programme that would act as a bookend to Monday morning's "
Start the Week " with Richard Baker, which had been running for about four years. [ [http://www.transdiffusion.org/rmc/bbc/stop_the_week.php Stop The Week By Nigel Stapley] ]"Stop the Week" ran on a Saturday evening, and its brief was to be a weekly magazine of satire, topical guests and music. The Hungarian emigré
Michael Ember , also the producer of "Start the Week", was chosen as the producer.The programme was presented by Robert Robinson who had just ended a three-year run on the
Today programme .The last show went out at 6:50pm on the evening of Saturday 25 July 1992.
Format
Each week a panel of four or five, drawn from a pool of 'regulars', would discuss a number of topics, usually more or less frivolous, such as "Is
Dan Maskell posh?"Among the regulars were
Ann Leslie ,Laurie Taylor ,Milton Shulman ,Benny Green ,Nicholas Tucker ,Anthony Clare , DrMichael O'Donnell ,Edward Blishen ,Rosalind Miles , Stephen Oliver,Sarah Harrison ,Jasper Griffin ,Christopher Page andMatthew Parris .The musical interlude was provided by regulars such as
Instant Sunshine , Jeremy Nicholas,Fascinating Aïda (orDillie Keane alone),Peter Skellern andBarber and Yunger .ources
*Robert Robinson, "Skip All That", Century, 1997
*Russell Twisk, "Full stop as a major irritant gets scratched", "The Observer ", 26 April 1992
*Dennis Barker, "Stop the week, I want to get off", "The Guardian ", 20 July 1992References
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