You submitted your material on a Monday, it got used (or most likely not) in the extended recording on a Wednesday, and you'd get an email telling you that if so. Then you had the anxious wait until Thursday evening to find out if it had made the show (again, informed by email), then it was broadcast at 11.00pm on Thursday night (on BBC Radio 7 as it was known then). But this being the BBC, you could apply for tickets and go along.
So my mate suggested it, we had some drinks in the BBC bar, headed in and about three quarters of the way through they started saying words that I recognised, which was pretty surreal. The sketch was performed by Andi Osho and Jess Robinson, and I'm pretty proud that it was a whole sketch and they basically didn't need to change a single word. And I got paid a whole £32 for it too! Maybe it was a slow week....
Anyway, I doubt I'm allowed to post the audio so here's the script.
Dementia Eye Test
OPTICIAN
Okay, that’s great Mrs Jenkins, your eye sight seems fine. Now there’s just one more test I’d like to do, it’s quite new but perfectly safe, it’s actually a test for dementia.
MRS JENKINS
Really?
OPTICIAN
Yes, indeed. New research and all that, you see. Now if you’d just like to read the top line for me?
MRS JENKINS
B – F – T – R – X
OPTICIAN
Okay, if you’d like to read the top line for me?
MRS JENKINS
(SLIGHTLY UNCERTAINLY) B – F – T – R – X
OPTICIAN
And if you’d just like to read the top line for me?
MRS JENKINS
(LESS CONFIDENT, HESITANTLY) B – F – T – R – X
OPTICIAN
Okay, yeah. I’ve got Dementia, haven’t I?
MRS JENKINS
Yes, you have.
And here, in fact, is the note of when I first thought of it, that I found when looking through my notebook. As you can see, the repeating line popped into my head and it went from there.
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