Any Questions of the Week
Some years ago, with little money due to ongoing unemployment, and a tendency to be a news junkie (in the days before I discovered the ability to rant online in newspaper comments), I successfully got on the air in the Any Answers programme that immediately follows the Saturday broadcast of Any Questions.

This was back in the days when an actual Dimbleby hosted the programme, mind you, not some whipper-snapper junior producer, like the people they use now.

Also, slightly more impressively, I won £7,000 on the You Say, We Pay phone in section of the Richard and Judy show. It was also while I was out of a job, so rather than a fancy holiday, it meant I could continue to pay the mortgage until I found a job. I would've won more, but Richard Madeley is a thickie who didn't work out that Heather Mills was a one legged glamour model who married a Beatle. Judy was barely awake throughout. Gin overdose, most likely.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 17 Oct 2014, 14:32, 4 replies)

Everyone who calls up Any Answers is insane.
They're only outdone by people who contact Feedback.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 17 Oct 2014, 15:00, closed)

You only have to consider why they'd bother putting someone though.
Which makes better broadcast and keeps people listening?

A) Someone with the normal, reasonable point of view that people naturally tend to have about a subject.

B) Someone completely batshit crazy, with an interesting point of view about a subject.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Fri 17 Oct 2014, 15:05, closed)

I thought that myself
But I was very bored. And someone was wrong on the radio.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 17 Oct 2014, 15:05, closed)

I think this covers it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU_FXnSjBLY
( Ghoti Fingers, Fri 17 Oct 2014, 19:33, closed)