Just listened to part of that radio interview. Accidentally switched it off and dont think I can hack listening to the start again.
So I thought Id write this. To save all the paint-by-numbers nobended local bbc radio presenters out there from having to even use their one brain cell in future, heres a paint-by-numbers style guide to doing a musketeers radio interview...
Nobend: Hello! Well and back for some swashbuckling fun, here in
the studio today I have the three musketeers! Luke Parchalino, Santeyeigoo Carbrara, Porthouse, and Arthur. Hello!
Musketeers: Mumble.
Porthouse: And a good day to you, my friend. Or, one might even choose to quip, perchance...
Nobend: Er, right. Well, how is it for you all, being back in the saddle, so to speak?
Musketeers: Mumble.
Porthouse: Its a journey. A journey of fire. A manly journey of fire. We've learned to speak each others language again. And that of the sword. And of the horse. Listen: neeeigh. Just a few syllables, but gradually, so we converse.
Nobend: Errrr...eh? I mean, hahahaha! So, have any of you crossed swords in real life?
Porthouse:
Tom: Well there was this one time, during a really fucking predictable radio interview...
Nobend: Brilliant!!!! And do you all get on amazingly on set and have loads of laffs and stuff?
Luca: Its sort of like, amazing, yknow, cos theres like, this, sort of amazing camaraderie between us, yknow, which is great cos, yknow, I love calamari. Mmm.
Nobend: So the series is a lot darker this year isnt it. Could you all now just trot out the lines about your characters that the PR has told you to repeat endlessly in interviews?
Porthouse: Identity. Courage. Depth. POWER. Like myself, Porthos has come a long way. But he isnt sure where he's been. And he doesnt know the way forward. You could argue that he's in dire need of a satnav. Like...
Santi: Charming but deadly.
Tom: This interview is taking me back to the time when we all watched my Alan Partridge DVD in my trailer.
Luca: Yeah! That bloke was brilliant. Pissed myself laughing. Nearly as funny as Jeremy Clarkson!
Etc.