Souvenir Programme recording, and extra try-out night.
Hello!
Just a quick one to say that the ballot for tickets for the next recording of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is open here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/john-finnemores-souvenir-programme-apr23 , and closes at 10pm on Friday 31st March (tomorrow).
If you came to one of the try-outs, then thank you, and you may remember me saying that I would send one of these newsletters with a link giving you 24 hours advance notice of the tickets going live. That's because that's what one part of the BBC told me I would be able to do. But when I then asked another part of the BBC how to get the link, the second part of the BBC just stared at me and told me it was impossible, and anyway the whole thing was a ballot, so what would be the point of advance notice anyway? I then told the second part of the BBC what the first part of the BBC had promised me, and the second part of the BBC gave it as their informal and personal opinion that the first part of the BBC was an idiot. Which explains a lot.
However, all is not lost! Because even if you don't get a ticket to the recording (and statistically, I'm afraid, you probably won't) we are doing a third and final secret try-out, a few days before the recording, which will be very very similar to it, only a bit longer and sillier, and with more Subjective Guess Who? playing. If you came to one of the first two shows, there will be rewritten and (one would hope) improved versions of some of the sketches you saw then in it, but also plenty of new stuff, including the new Since You Ask Me? story, and a song.
It's at 7:30 on Wednesday 12th April, at Cecil Sharp House in Camden, and by the time this is delivered to you, tickets should be available here: https://www.efdss.org/whats-on or by phone on 020 7485 2206. If not, they will be soon afterwards.
And that's about it... oh, except for a very specific request for research help. Do you, by any chance, live in a small English village? Of somewhere between ten and thirty households, and definitely no more? If so, would you be willing to talk to me about it? If so, please drop Nic a line at assistant@johnfinnemore.com. Thanks! (Obviously, this is because I am about to become the show-runner of the long-awaited television version of The Archers.) ( <--- THIS IS A JOKE. Stand down, Ambridge worriers. And warriors.)
Ok, that really is it. Bye.
Love,
The Airport