{"id":320,"date":"2008-07-01T20:14:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T19:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=320"},"modified":"2008-07-01T20:14:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T19:14:45","slug":"ashes-to-ashes-dust-to-dust-lugradio-is-at-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust&#8230; Lugradio is at an end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening last week just as I was about to leave work, I had a phone call from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonobacon.org\/\">Jono Bacon<\/a> to tell me that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lugradio.org\/\">Lugradio<\/a> team had decided to call it a day.  This is a great shame, but ultimately the guys believe that it&#8217;s the right choice.  They&#8217;re probably right.  The shows are still good and they won&#8217;t be able to go on for ever.  As I said to Jono on the phone: <em>&#8220;Remember Series VI, VII and VIII of &#8216;Red Dwarf&#8217;?  They should have quit while they were ahead.&#8221;<\/em>  No-one wants to see it drag on and stagnate.<\/p>\n<p>The official announcement was made today in this week&#8217;s episode and took many people by surprise: the crew had decided to give a &#8220;heads up&#8221; to long-time Lugradio &#8216;people&#8217; in advance.<\/p>\n<p>This means that <a href=\"http:\/\/lugradio.org\/live\/UK2008\/\">Lugradio Live 2008<\/a> in Wolverhampton on 19-20 July will be the last recording and the last event (probably): we can go out with a shout.  I will be there \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jehaisleprintemps.net\/blog\/en\/2008\/06\/30\/lugradio-shuts-down\/\">Bruno<\/a> describes this sad day very nicely.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to all the presenters over the years: Jono, Aq, Sparkes, Matt, Ade, Adam and Chris.  So long and thanks for all the fish.  I mean, all the chin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening last week just as I was about to leave work, I had a phone call from Jono Bacon to tell me that the Lugradio team had decided to call it a day. This is a great shame, but ultimately the guys believe that it&#8217;s the right choice. They&#8217;re probably right. The shows&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=320\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}