I love Jonny's storytelling - it's hard not to. Ukelele in hand, his bobble-hatted head wobbling along with the wonky lampshade next to him, he perches on top of a metal barstool at centre stage, yanks out a pile of papers from under one of the many clunky analogue radios on the table next to him, and launches into the charismatic and beautifully British storytelling satire at which he excells.
I won't spoil too much - it's too funny not to see for yourself - but the story outlines the coming-of-age of the extraordinary Radio Boy; a young man growing up in dead-end Essex in 1980-something, whose life and, crucially, voice, are irrevocably and beautifully changed by his love affair with good old fashioned radio.
Test Transmission from The Edge of The World is rife with Fluffypunk's classic humour; there's quite a few gags that elude me - I couldn't have told you that Jenni Murray presents woman's hour and I don't know what Money Box Live is - I am a clueless teenager, you guessed it (!) But the pure soul, warmth and poignancy that Jonny pours into his stories don't need translation - his voice echoes across the generation gap, transmitted and received, with unparalled clarity.
See Test Transmission from The Edge of The World on Sunday 16th September, 2:30pm at The Museum in the Park, or the Old Library, Lansdown, at 5:30pm.
Written by Rowena Price.
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