The Cumberland Sausage Show
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The Cumberland Sausage Show is a radio programme broadcast on British commercial station CFM (Carlisle) every Saturday between 10am-1pm and is presented by Pete Moss. It was first broadcast as a Saturday afternoon show on August 6, 2005 when the show was presented by Pete Moss and Andy Wood.
Until September 2006 a specific theme dictated the show's content and music without losing sight of its main focus of localism. The fortunes of local sporting teams , including football, rugby and the well supported speedway were followed throughout the show by reporters at sporting fixtures of local interest. Often co-presenter Andy Wood was based at football team, Carlisle United's, football ground, Brunton Park, for much of the show.
The show was moved to start at 10am from September 30, 2006 with Andy Wood leaving to present CFM's Saturday Night Party. It no longer had a weekly theme and would concentrate more on local events happening on that day and would put a humorous spin on the week's local news.
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[edit] Outside Broadcast
Sally Sausage (born Sally Ann Crangle) was the Cumberland Sausage Show's first main outside broadcast reporter. She was recruited to visit different parts of CFM's broadcast area to talk to members of the public, fact find and play games relating to each week's particular theme. In her time on the show she built up a mainly male fan base. Sally left the show in May 2006.
Sarah Sausage (born Sarah Amy Story) started on the show in July 2006 as the outside broadcast reporter. She is usually accompanied by outside broadcast co-ordinator Jonny Chapman (AKA Techno Johnny). Sarah is an accomplished singer, actor and dancer. From September 2006 'sausage' was dropped from her on air name.
[edit] Regular Features
'Touch Me Feel Me Win Me' is a competition on the Cumberland Sausage Show where listeners have to correctly identify an object in order to win it. To do so they can ask three questions about the item to which the answers can only be yes or no. It usually takes some months before enough intelligence is gathered about the item that its identity can be correctly guessed.
'Hide The Sausage' was introduced to the show on February 25, 2006. Listeners win a prize by correctly working out the exact location of a 'virtual' sausage. The sausage is surreptitiously placed somewhere in Cumbria and three clues are given over the course of the show to help listeners work out the sausage's location.
'Misheard Song Lyrics' exposes lyrics from songs which are heard differently than their writers intended, usually to humorous effect. The feature was dropped from the show in September 2006.
'The Single's Review' was an original part of the show where a panel of three would listen to, and give their views on, four new single releases. The feature was dropped from the show after just twelve weeks.
[edit] Thongsbury
'Thongsbury' was the show's weekly soap which parodied many of Britain's television soaps and ran for 27 episodes. It was named after a fictional Cumbrian town which had a pub called The Golden Swan, a doctor's surgery, a casino called The Aladdin, a corner shop and Thongsbury General which is the hospital in the soap. Regular characters were played, and named after, the presenters of the show but the characters Doctor Williams, PC Bill, Vonda and local businessman, Steve, have also featured.
It was decided that the soap 'Thongsbury' should be discontinued in September 2006 and it ended with the four main characters losing their life following an explosion in the street, called Plum's Court, which the soap centred around.
The soap played twice during the Cumberland Sausage Show at regular times.
'Thongsbury' even had its own theme tune. The lyrics of the song read:
Dancing through the villages on a summer's night, Got some matches in my pocket and they don't seem to light, I'll down my drink in here then it's home to Thongsbury, Yeah!
Although the theme tune was written and performed by presenter Pete Moss it's firmly believed that the lyrics were written from the character Sally's perspective because she makes reference to some of its lyrics as part of her dialogue in the final episode.
[edit] Songs
The show often creates parodies or write new comedy songs as part of the show. The best known of which is the song 'This Christmas' about the virtues of abandoning traditional meats for Christmas dinner in favour of a cumberland sausage.
They also recorded a football song to support local football team Carlisle United in their bid to win the Football League Trophy Final in April 2006. The song, entitled 'Carlisle's Soldiers', was downloaded from CFM's official website over a thousand times in just one week.
'Grabbed By The Ghoulies' is a halloween themed song, performed by Pete and Sarah, and is expected to be the next Cumberland Sausage Show song in October 2006.
