I posted a while back about Messy Tuesdays and The Fantastical Reality Radio Show. Now the official website is up and running, I am calling out to all for submissions! I have to arrange interviews with anyone/everyone who wants to do a Messy Tuesdays interview; anyone in the Oxford/Reading area, leave me a post and I will contact you before the end of this week to arrange mess-related interviews.

I am coming to Newcastle around 20th June so anyone up North can get in touch to organise a face-to-face interview for then! I basically want to create an audio version of Messy Tuesdays for the Fantastical Reality Radio Show and since everyone here on the blogosphere has made the project happen, I really can’t do the feature without you. Long-distance messiness can be covered via email and yousendit.com if you have a microphone and are willing to record your thoughts on the matter of mess! Email me for long-distance audio mess and we shall figure out what to do next.

Lastly, I need your news and your self-distracting activities in traffic for the news and travel reports of the show.

For our news feature we wish to cover the events that are normally considered too banal to be newsworthy. We wish to appropriate the form of the news bulletin to celebrate and report on everyday occurrences that may otherwise go unmarked. The studio broadcast regulations refute the inclusion of spoof news reports so absolutely everything that we report on must be an actual event; so many mundane things take place throughout the day, I would be surprised if anyone fabricated a mundane news story. Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up.

Please email the most mundane happenings in your day to radio at fantasticalreality dot com.

The format for news stories is as follows:

Date, Time, Location, People/Persons involved, nature of incident, quote.

Example: On Monday 12th May at approximately 7.15am in a quiet suburban street in Reading, Berkshire, Felicity Ford overfilled Mark Stanley’s muesli bowl. ‘I just wasn’t thinking as I was pouring it into the bowl’ she confessed. Mark Stanley has luckily come through the event unharmed but did complain of feeling ‘slightly fuller’ than he would like to feel. ‘It was just too much,’ he commented ‘but I didn’t realise until I had eaten it all.’

Like I said, you can’t make this stuff up…

The last and final call for submissions I’m going to explicitly make here relates to your self-distracting activities in traffic. What do you do when you are stuck in traffic? The format for the traffic reports needs to include:

Date, Time, Location, activity, quote.

Example: On Saturday the 10th May in completely solid traffic on the busy M4/A329 intersection in Reading, Felicity Ford compared the packaging design on two brands of chewing gum sitting on her dash to distract herself from the lack of movement taking place in the traffic jam. ‘I had to move off before I could reach a decision as to which design I actually preferred,’ she later mused.