Comedy of the Week - Icklewick FM

Episode Date: February 26, 2024

Amy and Chris are reporting all the action live from the 233rd Icklewick Agricultural Festival! As the festival’s newly crowned “Lady Muck”, Amy is preoccupied with her upcoming performance at the closing ceremony. Whilst first time camper, Chris is trying his best to embrace the countryside in all its beautiful, harrowing glory. Ever the renaissance man, Mr Patel has decided to try his hand at hospitality, which should be simple as long as his customers remember to eat around the teeth.The extortionate cost of a festival pint sets Simon Toke spiraling but will he make it back in time to interview Toploader, and will Amy be able to overcome her nerves and save Icklewick from another year of blight?Mr. Patel has managed to get a special sponsor for this episode. ChemNice. Just nice chemicals. Nothing weird.Created and written by Chris Cantrill and Amy Gledhill with additional material from the castStarring:Tom Burgess Tai Campbell Janice Connolly Colin Hoult Ed Night Nimisha Odedra Benjamin Partridge Nicola Redman Mark SilcoxSound Design and Music by Jack Lewis Evans. The Line Producer is Laura Shaw.Produced by Benjamin Sutton.Icklewick FM is A Daddy’s SuperYacht Production for BBC Radio 4.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've nearly got it. Oh, he's slippy, isn't he? You're joining us live at the 233rd Icklewick Agricultural Festival and I'm so excited to say that we are witnessing the miracle, well, one of the miracles of farming. What's happening here? We are with farmer Slutterford. Oh, Bill for short.

Full name Samus. For our listeners who couldn't get a ticket, can you just explain what we are witnessing? What's happening is your city boyfriend is trying and failing to deliver a lovely calf from Maisie. A prize. Well, this is hard. I feel like the further I push in,

the more he's getting away from me. Is that normal? Your arm's not in nearly far enough. Is there something wrong with Chris's technique? Mrs Pipe has mentioned that. Aye, he is. He hasn't got his arm in far enough. You know, when you're walking home

from a nice night on the town, you've got your arm round your pal, you hook him arm in far enough. You know, when you're walking home from a nice night on the town, you've got your arm round your pal, you hook him round the far shoulder. That's what you've got to do with the calf. You've got to get all the way and just hook it, hook it... Yeah. ..and usher your new chum into the sunlight. Come on, Chris, get in there. I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it.

It's coming out. Yeah! Oh, oh, oh There he is Is it supposed to look like that? What is that? That's a calf Another one for the bonfire You watch over Maisie and I'll go and fetch the hammer

So let's get that full arm rinse and get back to the festival. It's the Agriculture Festival on Eco Weekend Fair. It's the Agriculture Festival, two hundred thirty. It's the Agriculture Festival On Echo Weekend It's the Agriculture Festival With Chris and me Are you alright Chris?

Yeah, I'm alright It's gone over the top of my gloves and down into it. So, to be honest, I think this fleece is for bin. But welcome back to our live rolling coverage of the Icklewick Agricultural Festival. Sponsored by Chemnice, Pesticides, Spread & Wide. And we are out here camping open air. It is wild. I never thought I'd see you camping, to be honest. No, I'm a first-time camper.

It has never, ever appealed to me before, but my wife made it perfectly clear that she needs full use of the house for the entire weekend. So here I am. What about you? Yeah, similar situation, really. I also have a group of strange men staying at mine this weekend. Oh, God, yeah.

I've actually sublet my caravan to the band. The Ickwick Barrow Band? Yeah, just the eight of them and all their instruments. I did originally say six days maximum, but I've realised on the contract I've written six months. I'm sure it'll all be cleared up when I get back and then it can go back to just being me, my flatmate with the iron lung and the postman.

That postman, still not gone? No, do you know what? But I've come quite fond of him, actually. And, because there's not a lot of space, not a lot of furniture, because he's so tall. You know, six foot two. Yeah. He don't mind if you sort of sit on him.

Or use him as a dining table. Battery hens live a better life than that. You're never cold. Never, ever cold. So, for all you out-of-towners, we have been covering the 233rd Icklewick Agricultural Festival all weekend, starting on Friday night with the piglet dressage, going all the way through to tonight's closing ceremony,

where this year's Lady Muck will perform her merry tune. And yes, the rumours are true, this year's newly crowned Lady Muck is our very own Amy Winnett. Can you tell us about it a little bit more, about the selection process, which is shrouded in secrecy? Yeah, I guess so. I didn't apply or anything like that. The town elders pick you in the night and they come into your house and they pick you out of bed

and they parade you around the town shouting, Muck! Muck! Muck! And I didn't even know it was for this festival, to be honest. I thought it was just my past coming back to home. So I'll be just playing a little bit of recorder at the end, just a little, talk a bit of fun. Yeah, it is a lot of fun, but it's also extremely serious. After last year's festival, when Lady Muck, part of my French, bleeped it,

Icklewick has been blighted. I mean, inside-out calves are just the start. Some of these carrots, they smell quite like, I don't know, like yogurty, sweaty, meaty. I don't know. I don't want to eat them. It really is quite a big thing. I mean, look at the way that the farmers are looking at you, hoping their eyes. Well, the ones that are looking in the right direction, do you thing. I mean, look at the way that the farmers are looking at you, hoping their eyes.

Well, the ones that are looking in the right direction, do you know what I mean? But what's that got to do with me playing the recorder? I don't get it. Well, as legend has it, if Lady Muck doth not play her merry tune to the satisfaction of the agri-gods, lo, Icklewick shall be further blighted

with 12 more months of weird countryside stuff like that inside-out calf we saw and all those gummy carrots. That sounds like quite a lot of pressure, actually, doesn't it? But this year's festival is going to go off without a hitch, in part because of our good friends and sponsors, Chemnice. Pesticides, spread them wide. They have put so much money into making sure

that this is the biggest agricultural festival that Icklewick has ever seen. And some people like to have a go at chemicals companies these days, but I go drinking with the lads who are the managers at Chemnites, and they are straight arrows, every single one. Top lads. I mean, look at the place. You can see it there, just upstream.

It's that one that glowing one over there it's like disneyland paris yeah if you like barrels of chemicals and i tell you what they were saying since we've left the eu it's only got more food up there they could do what they want can i just bring you back to that lady muck thing i'm sort of stressing out a bit i didn't realize it was that much precious to be. I feel a bit like I'm... The weight of the town's on my shoulders, do you know what I mean? I bet you do. I would do if I had that round of pressure on me. Oh, can you smell that in me?

What have you done? No, nothing. It's hot food. Can you smell it wafting? Like out of a cartoon. Like two old fingers up your nostrils pulling you over there. It's Mr Patel. It's Mr Patel's food stall. How are you doing?

It's a wonderful time. Everybody's having a wonderful time. The meat is selling well. People are enjoying it. Some people are complaining about they found some tooth in the meat. People just have to eat around it. You can't really tell from the menu what it is. Meat is a mystery. You only will find out when you taste it. And that's the USP.

Freshly boiled, freshly cooked in clear plastic bag. But they come with the warning you have to eat around the truth. You can't miss them. You can just have to eat around them. Do you want to try it, Chris? Yeah. Bag me up. Bag me up?

A bag of that mystery meat. This is for Chris. have to eat around them. Do you want to try it, Chris? Yeah. Bag me up. Bag me up. A bag of that mystery meat. This is for Chris and Amy. Oh, it's hot, isn't it? It's very hot. Oh, yeah, there's teeth, but, I mean, they're nothing compared to them. I thought it was an eyeball, but it's not.

It's a sack. I can't see how people are complaining about this, because, oh, that is the best boiling the bag of meat I've had since I was ten years old. Are you getting hair? Oh, yeah, the best bit. I feel thankful to have been able to eat that. Are you crying? No, I'm not crying. It's just a perfectly natural reaction to the consumption of delicious liquid bone.

And is it true that you haven't had much experience in hospitality before? Hospitality is natural. You know, you're born, you are eating food from your childhood. You don't need any training for that. It's just natural. That's why you don't need a certificate. Hygiene is like, you know, natural. Natural hygiene, natural flavours

Delicious Thanks, Mr Patel It's time to go over to our roving reporter, Simon Tuck Who's at the main stage And he's going to be interviewing a group described as the Maroon five for english market towns it is of course top loader simon are you there well you look where you're going mate you look where you're going are you with top loader simon yeah yeah i'm just meeting up with the lads in a sec we're back dancing in the moonlight is that them that was their one yeah that was their famous one wasn't

it are you not with them right now? Well, Top Loader are not. They're not around me, but they are still dancing in the moonlight. That was them, wasn't it? Yeah, that is them, Simon. So you are at the festival? In the moonlight, and you dance in the

sunlight. Was that them? No, that's a different one. It's not them. Which one's Top Loader, though? Simon, you should be with them. You should be with them. Where are you now? Where are you now exactly? We're at the festival.

You're at the festival. Do you want me to spin your yarn? Do you want me to tell you a tale? No. Or do you want me to just tell you the truth? Just tell us where you are, Simon. Tell us what? I'm walking down an A road.

It's not safe. I say that for a start. But, you know, where am I in my life right now? To be honest, if a bloody dumper truck hit me, I'd be laughing. That's for a dad, Simon. I'm a married single dad. It's just me and her. She's gone and got pregnant again, somehow. Now, before we know it, we've got another baby on our hands at six. I'll just add it up to it, guys. And the last thing I needed was to try and find Top Loader and talk about their hit single Dancing in the Moonlight.

I do understand that. It's the night, it's the moonlight. No, that's still not it, Simon. It's not it. It weren't good. Why have you left? Pints. I need a drink.

I need a couple of need a i need a couple of pot i need to get off my face lads i need to get off my face beers in there are too expensive right and you've got to bring your own cup because they're going to work environmental now which i think is made up i know they're just trying to stop us driving our cars i'm walking down this bloody a road don't know where it is but I'm hoping there's a pub at the end of it, right? If you want a sack, mate, sack, mate. I need a weekend. Simon, where are you going?

I don't know. I don't know. Well, come back to the festival, Simon. Come back to the festival, come back to people that care about you, come back to Top Loader, OK? All right, I'll interview Top Loader. Well...

Fine, I'll do it. Do you know what? They might have gone. We'll see if we can... I'll find him, I'll interview him. When you dance on the moon, lad, blah, blah, blah. Was that it? That's closer, yeah. I think that is closer. That's catchy. Undeniably catchy.

When you dance on the moon, lad, you dance on the moon, lad, you dance on the moon, lad, you dance on the moon. How did it go? Yes, not that exactly... I know I don't like it. I know I don't like them. And I'll tell them when I see them. Well, just be careful.

Stay safe. And we'll talk to you later when Simon Tug will be interviewing the one and only, a top loader. Give us a turkey sound. Don't do the catchphrase. And now here we are in the farmer's market. Yeah, I mean, lots of sights and sounds and smells. And Amy, look at that. It's a pig in a drum circle.

What's that about? I don't know, but it's absolutely wonderful to see. The pig is clearly enjoying himself. That's strange. Let's keep walking. Hello, what's your stand? Hello, this is honey made from local bees. It's absolutely delicious, so I'd love you to take a try.

And what are these lovely colourful jars right next to them? Look, those jars have got absolutely nothing to do with me. They're all his. Hello there. Hello, sir. What's in your jars?

Well, I'm not quite sure But it's been coming out of my abdomen for some time now You can't get more locally sourced than that What is it? Well, I don't know I used to hate it at first But people started liking it So I just siphoned it off with a spatula

You can make that with your own body That is amazing Chris, try some I politely decline. Well, I'll take three jars. Come on. It's two for one. Put them down, Amy. We've got enough jars of viscous substances knocking about.

Let's take a moment to look at this stall. Who are you? What do you do? Hello, I work for the Beef and Dairy Marketing Board, and this is the perfect stall for those working or just interested in the production of beef animals and dairy herds. And what does the Beef and Dairy Marketing Board have to do at the Icklewick Agricultural Festival?

So you may know that Icklewick has traditionally been pretty obsessed with pork the people here are kind of like Germans but not as good looking. We love swine don't we? And they're absolutely obsessed with sausages and basically you know what we're trying to do here with the Beef Marketing Board is try and show the people there's another way and really stop them from eating so many pork sausages and

move on. One of the ideas we had and we tried this was there's the old saying that you don't want to see how the sausage is made. We put together an experience where people from Ickwick would be brought in to see how the sausage was made and in most towns when we do that people are you know on the floor gnashing and wailing, puking. But here, they were just, they were enthused and they were like, can I get, I want more sausages than before. And so what we had to do then was we're trying to introduce a different kind of sausage. So to move them away from the pork sausage, we graduate them onto the wild boar sausage.

We then give them small veal sausages. And then finally we move them on to the final destination the rich beef sausage. Hey Chris, that sounds nice. I don't think anyone would be interested in that at all. So we're just trying to bring beef back into the conversation and we're doing that we've got loads of different things here for the kids. There's the offal bin so you can just drop your kid off

it's like a creche really. Let meat be your childminder. Lucky old kids here. Down here for example we've got this banana Oh yes, I can see it. So that's an example of something that isn't beef, and by looking at that, it brings into sharper focus what beef is. That's dead clever. Yes, that is so clear

that beef is not a banana. And what's over here? So this is a promotional cape. Would you like it? I'll try it on, I guess. Ooh! That does complete the look, doesn't it? It really goes with on, I guess. Oh, that does complete the look, doesn't it? It really goes with your pre-existing leather codpiece that you're wearing. It's not a codpiece, it's a purity belt. Me and Mrs Piper spicing things up. It's fine, it's very modern.

Now, I don't want to bring the mood down, but I think we do have to address the so-called epidemic of these inside-out calves. As an industry spokesman, can you tell us what on earth is going on with them? I initially thought it might be a positive thing. You know, suddenly the beef's on the outside, we don't have to slice them open anymore. Unfortunately, as you know, this beef, it's a kind of corrupted meat, cursed flesh. It can't be eaten, and so it is a bad thing. So we had to look into what caused this. One thing I can say for sure is that it's got nothing to do with those guys up at Chemnice.

Is that a Chemnice baseball cap you're wearing? Yeah, just to keep the sun out of my eyes And what about the hoodie? Yes, I've got a hoodie, I've got a Chemnice letterman jacket It's just a lot of Chemnice Oh, don't be doing all of this I'm so sorry about her, she went to a comprehensive I imagine she'll be trying to bring up the big brown packet in my pocket full of £20 notes

Got a problem with that? Well, yeah, because it's in a Chemnice-branded manila envelope. Well, yeah, because they're lending me money. I'm sorry, something smells fishy or porky or beefy. Listen, what needs to happen here is that people need to stop questioning Chemnice, need to stop investigating Chemnice, need to stop auditing Chemnice. The people at Chemnice are innocent, like babies, like loads of innocent babies, and I don't appreciate what you're doing here, actually.

I bet you don't. And I think, actually actually all of our research shows that the responsibility lands firmly at the feet of Lady Muck No, I didn't even choose to be Lady Muck Amy, Amy You were forcing it on me at night Amy All I've got is a recording from Tunes to Play

it's going to be lovely and everyone's going to dance and it's got nothing to do with inside out calves and that Amy, it's a holy mandate your job is to do that performance and save Ickelwick from the blight and I've got something to tell, it's a holy mandate. Your job is to do that performance and save Ickelwick from the blight and I've got something to tell you. It's very soon. I am so sorry about her. She doesn't

have any GCSEs but thank you so much for your time. It has been illuminating. The next time I'm offered a piggy blanket I might say no way. Say no way and reach for the cow and tarpaulin. Thank you for your time. And now let's hear

some of your highlights from the festival. It's the Agriculture Festival on Echo Weekend I've been to so many festivals before but this is by far the best one I've ever been to because you know what, I went to Glastonbury and they checked my bag and they didn't check ever been to because you know what? I went to the glass to be and they checked my back.

They didn't check my back here. You know what I mean? They really shouldn't. Yeah, it's great. It's really taken my mind off the fact that my dad, Ken Fink, is missing. My dad, Ken, Ken Fink, of Pinocchio's, formerly.

You know, I'm sure he's still around but we've got to be realistic. Oh, me, having a time of my life, man. It's an amazing time. As a joke, yeah, I got tattooed the lyrics on my arm, like, temporarily, for blurred lines. It really, really hurt. Why isn't it coming off?

Oh, it's bleeding. A lot of people have actually been having a go at me for, like, chilling out at the agricultural festival while my dad is missing. I actually broke off from a search party to be here. We were going through an adjacent field and I thought some of the cows were quite aggressive. So I decided to spend my energies here in the trance tent out of respect for him. Mule. Life.

Gaia. H2O. Peace, Chemnice Limited. Mmm, that's nice. Just nice chemicals. Nothing weird. Ah, hello, listener. I've just momentarily lost Amy. She isn't at the tent tent so Simon Talks should be back now so maybe he's got

eyes on her hello Simon are you there please have you seen Amy I'll kill you mate I'll kill you I'll do I'll rip your

I'll rip your arms and your legs off and I'll shove them up your arse mate what do you think about that Simon are you back at the festival where's Amy

is she there she's not there I can't find her I need her down here nah things are kicked off mate it's like Vietnam it's like Escape from New York or something going on right now. Everything is going absolutely nuts. I don't know who started it. Well, I do know. It was me. But it wasn't me. It was the ADHD. Can't help it.

But where are you? I'm at the taproom down the road. I didn't come to the festival. I was going to come to the festival, but I was like, actually, I really need that drink. I can't afford it. So I kept moving. I got to this place. It said it did beer. It's double the price, Tony. It's Chris. It's double the price. I've had a bad weekend.

I needed this weekend. I walked all the way from... I could be interviewing top loaders. He's looking at me now. What did I say, mate? Do not look at me. So anyway, I ended up just like absolutely... Just smashing this place to bits.

They've called the police already. That can't... Can you undo that? They can't undo that. Police are coming. Maybe armed. I did tell them I was loaded. That can't, can you undo that? They can't undo that. Police have come in, maybe armed. I did tell them I was loaded. I don't know why I said that

with hindsight. I shouldn't have said that. I'm not, by the way, I'm not, but apparently it's too late now. But anyway, police have come in.

Who knows, maybe it will be death by a cop, but you know, maybe that's a better way to go than what I've had to deal with this weekend. Please try and stay alive. Whatever,

whatever they come at me with, I will come at them the same. Right, but what if they come at you with a gun? I give what I get. If they come at me with, I will come at them the same. Right, but what if they come at you with a gun? I give what I get. If they come out with me a gun, then I will tell them I've got a gun and I'm just going to run out there and just blaze a glory, Tony.

Because this weekend, I need it this weekend. Oh, is Amy there? She's not there. I need to find her. Amy would really sort me out right now. I don't want to put pressure on you, Tony. That's the last thing I want to do. But basically, if Amy was on here right now, it would solve everything.

But if she's not, then basically you're letting me die. I can't help. I'm too busy to help. You've always been weak like that, Tony. No. You've always been weak. And that's all right. Can you do this for me, Tony?

I've got to go. Tony, Tony. Please. At my funeral, I want you to play something for me. Do you know what I want you to play? What? Dancing on the moonlight. When you dance in the moonlight.

All right, police are here. Here we go. RIP, Simon Tote. Give us a tote. Let's have it. Simon, are you there? Oh, God. Well, hopefully the brave women of the Icklewick Armed Response Unit will go easy on him.

What am I saying? They're going to kick his head off. I've got to find Amy. Amy? Amy? Excuse me, have you seen Lady Mook? No. Get out.

What's this big angry crowd about? Okay, guys, there's no need to raise voices. Every bag of meat here actually boiled to 76 degrees. That's the condition I explain in my terms and conditions. And it's a mystery package. Whatever you get... Oh, what's that? What's that sound?

It's a recorder. Amy? Are you in there? It's a recorder. Amy? Are you in there? No. Amy, I know it's you. No, it's an American lady. No, Amy, please let me in. What's up with you?

Oh, you can't come in. It was like that when I got in it. That's not me. What's going on? Why have you run away? I can't do it. I can't do the Lady Mutt closing ceremony, there's too much pressure, I feel like I'm having a panic attack. I didn't know all this weight was going to be on my shoulders and I just don't think I'm going to be able to

pull it off and I'm going to let everyone down, I'm going to let the town down, I'm going to let the calves down, I'm going to let Chemnice down. You know the notes? Yeah, B-A-G-G-A-B-G-G-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F Mr Patel, come in, come in Lots of angry people Complaining about their food And asking for refund They say the meat is not good enough for them And I tried my best And I explained everything It's a mystery meat They are saying you are just selling inside out car

And they want refund Are you selling inside out car? Yeah, it's a mystery Oh, Mr Patel It was going to waste and I saved the waste. It's for a bonfire because it isn't safe. But once you cooked it very well, 76 degree, then it's safe to eat. I don't know if that's science.

It is science. This is a disaster. This whole thing is a disaster. But Amy, don't you see? You're worried about playing the recorder. But Mr Patel, he's come to this festival without any food safety qualifications. He's been stealing corrupted meat and has had the gall to sell it in plastic bags. And if he has the nerve to do that to the people of this town, then I know that you are going to smash this, playing a song that you already know inside and out. Like a calf. Like a calf.

Amy, can you wear that to the cherry? For you. For Lady Muck. Do you know what? Maybe I can do it. Maybe I can go on that stage and be Lady Muck and close the ceremony and make sure that all these calves are born with their organs on the inside. Right, mind out the way.

Oh, I've dropped my recorder down the toilet. Puck it out like Excalibur. Get it. Okay, all right, I've got it. Okay, I'd better go. Right, bye. I'm coming. You go, girl.

You're just going to stay there? Yeah, I will stay off the side for a while until those customers go away. Yeah, probably for the best. See you in a bit, pal. It's the Agriculture Festival glory yeah probably for the best see you in a bit pal yeah it's great we got loads of free stuff didn't we

yeah we did yeah we got to give him these glow sticks like chem nice glow sticks they're great they keep your hands nice and warm don't they

yeah it's burning a little bit though isn't it a little bit and it's glowing a lot it's glowing a lot. Actually, to be honest, he really hurts. He hurts, doesn't he? It hurts. I think I've got a bit in my eye, actually.

Even if he's, God forbid, dead out there, he's probably going to get reincarnated into, like, one of these goldfish in a bag that I might get to take home. Well, to be honest, we're a little bit disappointed, obviously. Genevieve came third

in the three-legged race, but to me, the tripod does have an unfair advantage. You know, it's got that extra leg. At least I think it's a leg. I just don't want to go back to my normal life. I've just got to hang up

my assless chaps and put down my shop bikini and go back to being the chief executive of Barclays Bank. People of Icklewick, that was Top Loader. Well done, boys, when you dance in the moonlight. This is Simon Toke. Give us a joke. It's Simon Toke. It's Simon Toke.

That's right. Right. I didn't think I'd make it here. Got in a bit of a bother earlier. Big shout out. Thanks to PC Muggins and the whole of the Riot Squad over there. They gave us a lift here.

They're all right. They're all right. Never let it be said. The police, they do a bang on job. They really do. Especially with nutters like me around. Eh, lads? Big top load of fans they let me off it's all right now please welcome your chosen one for

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