Episode Description
We finally mark its 20th anniversary by reviewing “Rose”.
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SHOW NOTES
(00:20:04) “Richer Sounds” is a British home entertainment retailer that operates through a chain of 51 stores and online. In November 2013, Julian Richer announced to the press that, upon his death, he would bequeath 100% of the firm to a trust co-owned by employees of the company. In May 2019, Richer, then aged 60, announced that he had transferred ownership to employees by passing 60% of his shares to a trust, as well as separately paying each of his over 500 employees, excluding directors, a thank you bonus of £1,000 for every year of work, a total of about £4 million, as the employees had worked for an average of 8 years each. “Viz” meanwhile is a British adult comic magazine founded in 1979. It parodies British comics of the post-war period, notably The Beano and The Dandy, but with extensive profanity, toilet humour, black comedy, surreal humour and generally sexual or violent storylines. The connection between the two, according to Mark and The Rev, is that Richer Sounds used to sponsor the “Viz” music charts where indie bands used to bribe “Viz” and their position in the charts would be determined by the level of the bribe.
(01:19:22) On the night before the broadcast of “Rose”, Chistopher Eccleston appeared on the “Friday Night With Jonathan Ross” chat show on BBC1. Parts One and Two can be seen here.
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