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Charlie Antrobus
Happy acting depress-ee Charlie was born on Valentine day 1979. Charlie’s life has consisted of one incident after another with a disproportionate bias towards the challenging to say the least but there have been many good highlight too, to be fair.
He began life yellow in an incubator in Brussels, Belgium and from there has lived in southern and northern England, Australia, Canada and Africa and now Bournemouth. The yellow quickly turned to a healthy glow from an active lifestyle doing many sports his favourite being cycling, sailing, surfing and skiing. He spent his school holidays at his ancestral home on the beach at Point Clear in Essex.
Over the years Charlie has earned his keep in a number of different jobs including bar tender (his favourite job so far) painter decorator (second favourite), cabinet maker (shot his hand with a nail gun) and has shamefully worked in a bank (some might call him a word that rhymes with banker for doing so). For this he is truly sorry however as a result of this mind numbingly boring time embittered as a clerk he turned his hand to stand up comedy (or else he would have gone mad) which has lead to radio.
Charlie has a variety of interests including cooking, architecture, inventing and meditation however to quote his CV ‘realistically my pastimes seem to be washing-up, fixing the bicycle and checking I am on the right price plan’. A worrier, a procrastinator, a creative … a joker, a smoker, a midnight toker* some people call me Maurice’ in fact that is his third name, Maurice, Charles William Maurice Antrobus to be formal.
All this has given Charlie a lot to talk about and he hopes the radio medium will provide an outlet for him being a medium relying on imagination, adrenalin and quick wit.
Charlie is also DJing regularly on Bournemouth University student music radio Nerve.
Charlie in numbers:
10 Stand up gigs done
9 pounds spent buying the Incredible Bongo Band album, Bongo Rock
8 pasta last night and it is still his favourite food
747 name of best ever compilation tape Charlie made
6 Music wakes him up in the morning
5 Stockholm Syndrome by Muse he would like to choreograph fireworks to it
4 people in his family: Mum, Dad and older twin sisters who he loves dearly
3 Speechless d‘n’b remix on K&D Sessions a good album for a long journey
2 Headline spots
1st Single brought You are the One by Aha is the start of his eclectic music collection
A message from Charlie:
Hi Listener – Thank you for reading this and visiting our site this is an exciting time for all of us. Anything else just ask! I hope you enjoy my contributions to BIRSt and look forward to any feedback.
Cheers
Charlie
*The legal department would like to point out Charlie does not smoke unless he’s smoking a salmon and tokes only a weekend cigarette or two down the pub with a pint in hand.
My limerick…part of something
Hi my name is Charlie
I’d like to own a Barbie – Q
When I’m with you I get into a stew
Singing 3 little birds by Bob Marley
I haven’t got a clue – if only I knew you.
Listen to Charlie’s audio biography limerick:
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3 minutes to boil an egg
This is a short story about a lady boiling an egg. It is served on a bed of ambient music with a garnish of humour. The 3 minutes it takes to boil an egg is the time it takes for this women to realises she has to change. This can apply to many things in life. This programme contains language of an adult nature from the start. If you’re affected by any of the issues in this programme please find help, you can do it!
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On The Tip Of …
This is a pilot show for a potential future game show. It is based on that game where you then have to guess a person’s name by the description your teammate is saying. So for example if I say: ‘Wears his underwear on the outside’. You would shout: ‘Superman!’. Please note the interactive games are fictional but the questions are not.
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Ooh Have I Birst a Nerve? – Episode 2
Oooh Have I Birst a Nerve is the radio spin off of the highly popular televised Bournemouth University panel Show ‘Ooh Have I Touched a Nerve’, and originally aired as part of Birst Live. On the panel tonight are Simon Jay, Ben Nardone, Dickie Murray and Aaron Ferguson. And your host is Jo Jo Barton!
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‘Ooh Have I Birst a Nerve’ was written by the show’s producer Scott Payne and Jo Jo Barton and the script was edited by Ben Nardone. Scott Payne is also the creator of the game. The show’s engineer was Nuria Bernardo,
the OB Producer was Andrea Miller and the Executve Radio Producer was Charlie Antrobus.
Episode 2 of 2.
Ooh Have I Birst a Nerve? – Episode 1
Oooh Have I Birst a Nerve is the radio spin off of the highly popular televised Bournemouth University panel Show ‘Ooh Have I Touched a Nerve’, and originally aired as part of Birst Live. On the panel tonight are Simon Jay, Charlie Antrobus, Dave Ruddock and Aaron Ferguson. And your host is Jo Jo Barton!
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‘Ooh Have I Birst a Nerve’ was written by the show’s producer Scott Payne and Jo Jo Barton and the script was edited by Ben Nardone. Scott Payne is also the creator of the game. The show’s engineer was Nuria Bernardo,
the OB Producer was Andrea Miller and the Executve Radio Producer was Charlie Antrobus.
Episode 1 of 2.
Desert Island Dicks – Sarah Horsley
Originally aired as part Birst Live, this segment invited a weekly guest to banish the people, things and concepts they revile to a desert island. (Which is located in the barren north (cold – not Yorkshire)).
This episode features Andrea Miller as host and Sarah Horsley as banisher.
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Produced by Jenny Aldridge with additional production by Andrea Miller. Created by Charlie Antrobus.
Desert Island Dicks – Simon Jay
Originally aired as part Birst Live, this segment invited a weekly guest to banish the people, things and concepts they revile to a desert island. (Which is located in the barren north (cold – not Yorkshire)).
This episode features Charlie Antrobus as host and creator of comedian Simon Jay as banisher.
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Produced by Lou Ricketts, Studio Managed by Andrea Miller, Created by Charlie Antrobus.
A Celebration of Radio Comedy
A report from the Radio Academy event ‘A Celebration of Comedy’ held on the 18th March 2009 in the Gibson building in Central London. It includes interviews with Barry Cryer, Jon Holmes, Steve Punt and Adrian Juste and clips from Round the Horn, Dead Ringers and a prank call to LBC.
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Give Blood Advertisement
This is an audio advertisement based on a genuine brief given by the National Blood Service.