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Loose Ends

Summary

Many years ago, a clip surfaced of Chris Morris appearaing on Radio 4's “Loose Ends”. Ned Sherrin remarks at the start how some folks were drawing similarities between Victor Lewis-Smith and Morris. All very interesting, but for a long time this was all that surfaced. Eventually, in 2006, I got an email from a chap called Jumbo who pointed me to a full 7 and a half minute demo tape for Loose Ends. This was uploaded to Wikipedia, and substantial changes were made to the page by the same person at that time - they have admitted some kind of connection to VLS and/or Associated-Rediffusion. The Morris bit was (and still is) actually hosted on Associated-Rediffusion webspace. A Victor Lewis-Smith clip is also available (“Women's Trouble” - amazing bit), and the page invites visitors to compare the two, while responsding to similarities in style, and accusations of Morris having over-shadowed VLS…

“Radiohaha, the online encyclopaedia of contemporary British radio comedy,[2] describes Lewis-Smith as having been “almost entirely eclipsed by the rise of Chris Morris, who tends to occupy similar ground”. Morris (then working in BBC Radio Bristol) in fact sent a Lewis-Smith-style tape to Loose Ends in 1988, asking if he could be on the programme (doing something similar a couple of years later by writing to Time Out editor John Morrish, asking to take over Lewis-Smith's column when the latter was on holiday).”

…This kind of recurrent pettiness may explain why Chris Morris might have parodied Victor Lewis-Smith's restaurant columns in 2006, and posted it to the internet circa 2008. Or, the article could be a pastiche of someone like AA Gill. It also, of course, might have nothing to do with Chris Morris at all. Have a read, and come to your own conclusions.

Back to the Loose Ends bit, and what's clear is that this is Chris Morris actually doing a Victor Lewis-Smith pastiche. A homage, even, to someone whose work he greatly admired. On Wikipedia, it is listed as having been submitted to Radio 4 while Morris was at Radio Bristol but, given that it's 1988, he must also have been at GLR at this point. Indeed, he references the new station in the bit.

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