PMB038 The Detectives: John Gregory, Ray Martin, Sarah Angliss, Chaino, Ikebe Shakedown, Lalo Schifrin, Peter Falk, Alan Tew, Peter Herbolzheimer

We were saddened to hear of the recent passing of the man who played the greatest scruffy detective on TV, Peter Falk. We're great fans of Mr Falk here at the Moonbase and so we thought we'd turn this week's show over to the theme of detective work. As a result, you'll hear lots of our favourite cop show themes, though not necessarily as you may have heard them before.

In addition to all the cop show action, we're also excited to say that we have a bit of an exclusive in the form of an excerpt from a documentary coming up on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 5 July at 1:30pm by friend of the show, Sarah Angliss. The documentary is called The Bird Fancyer's Delight and looks at what we used to do for home entertainment before the advent of the Binatone games console and the radiogram, ie: training birds to reproduce popular hits of the day.

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The Music

1.	The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra: Kojak from 100 Greatest TV Themes
2.	Ray Martin: Ironside from Favourite T.V. Themes Volume 2/Favourite TV Themes
3.	John Gregory & His Orchestra: Columbo from Six Million Dollar TV Themes
4.	Peter Falk: All For One from Robin and the 7 Hoods:
5.	Mark Thornton: Rockford Files from Country Fried TV Tunes
6.	Sarah Angliss: The Bird Fancyers Delight (excerpt)
7.	Chaino: Swingin' Congo Bird from Africana & Beyond
8.	Ikebe Shakedown: The Hold Up from Ikebe Shakedown
9.	Bullet: The Heist (The Big One) from The Hanged Man
10.	Laurie Johnson: Chase That Car! from Girl In A Suitcase (Upgraded)
11.	Lalo Schifrin: Prologue/The Swimming Pool from Dirty Harry OST
12.	Malcolm Lockyer Orchestra: The Sweeney
13.	Woodshed1: The Sweeney
14.	Peter Herbolzheimer: Honkey Tonk Monkey from Soul Puppets - Unreleased Jazz Funk Library 1970-75

The Unnecessary News

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• Circus offers treatment for clown-phobia
• Dog Believed to Be Reincarnation of Lawyer Sentenced to Death by Stoning
• Taiwan: Blogger fined $7K, jailed for 30 days over negative noodle review
• AutoWed vending machine concept offers marriage of convenience, nuptials at $1 a pop
• Fifa Women's World Cup 2011: Meet Ophira the successor to Paul the octopus

Playlist, 04/05/08

The Show For this week's show, DJ Bongoboy was not in the building and "DJ" Zirconium took the helm, along with "The Woodsman" to bring you two hours of bachelor pad music from down the decades. Plus a jaw-dropping archive recording of Telly Savalas bigging up Brum. The Music 1. Perrey & Kingsley - Electronic Can-Can (The In Sound From Way Out) 2. Bovine Life - bovtay 3. Telly Savalas - Telly Savalas Looks At Birmingham 4. Go! Team - The Wrath of Marcie (Proof of Youth) 5. Liz Phair - Banana Splits (Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits) 6. Brian Fahey - Main Theme From "the Saint" (Time For TV) 7. France Gall - Les rubans et la fleur (Poupée de Son) 8. Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do (Fur and Gold) 9. Cal Tjader - Pantano (Ultimate) 10. Money Mark - Chocochip (Change Is Coming) 11. Warren Barker - The Moon Was Yellow (Music of Desire) 12. Deltron 3030 - The News (Deltron 3030) 13. Boom Bip - The Matter (Of Our Discussion) (feat. Nina Nastasia) (Blue Eyed In The Red Room) 14. Sporto Kantes - Mundo (Paris Lounge Vol.1) 15. Koop - Tonight (Waltz For Koop) 16. Sesame Street - Sesame Street (Theme Song) 17. Vince Guaraldi - It's Your Dog Charlie Brown (Oh) 18. R. D. Burman - Raaste Men Kal Ek Ladki Mili (Bond 303) 19. Balsara and His Singing Sitars - Tequila (Great International Hits) 20. Bullet - Smokey Joe The Dreamer (The Hanged Man: Music From The 1970's Television Series) 21. The Mark Duval Big Band - The Race Machine (Music For Dancefloors: The Cream of the Chappell Music Library) The News

• Telly Savalas looks at Birmingham and here.
• Boomerangs in space (video)
• Study shows some computer keyboards are far dirtier than a toilet seat.
• Droog's Do Hit Chair, comes with sledgehammer
• SMS - Smell Message Service - German company developing scented text messages?
• Royal Mail to introduce Carry On and Hammer Horror postage stamps and here.
• Spider sex
• Cuba lifts ban on home computers
• Interweb can give you STI (sexually transmitted infection)
• World's largest table football ... erm table.
• Lesbians on lesbians action
• Judge issues arrest warrant for Darth Vader