Bragging Rights

Bragging Rights began as the random mutterings of two students, Ian Threlfall and Alex Delve, and has grown into the biggest cultural phenomenon since Postman Pat.

With Alex sitting behind a big row of shiny buttons, and Ian pointing his mouth in the vague direction of a cheap microphone, they have welcomed guests from all parts of the country (even Stoke-On-Trent) to join in their off-colour jokes, air guitaring and attempted question answering, all in the name of entertainment.

The first series saw the triumph of Nicola Griffiths from Somewhere Up North, as she conquered all, including the mighty Andrew Fugle, who has apparently never read the Daily Mirror, and therefore got hardly any points, although he did receive an offer of sex from an anonymous source, and was last seen heading to Thailand with nothing but a gimp mask and a tube of KY.

The second series saw us take one even more battles, even venturing into the political correctness nightmare, and putting religions to war (Like that’s never happened before!). We even put Ian and Alex in a battle against each other, with Producer vs Presenter, with Ian (ed. Being Cheated) loosing. For the first time ever we were able to podcast the series for people to download and still to this day we get on average 50 downloads of the shows a month.

The series had an abrupt end when the final episode was cancelled due to technical problems.

The third series of Bragging Rights will be arriving on LIPA Radio and online, in Febuary 2007.

Bragging Rights UK

In a spin off from the normal series, in late 2007 we created Bragging Rights UK, a series which placed UK cities into battle via a 5 round radio quiz. The show was recorded in the studio and allowed us to create the first full produced version of Bragging Rights.

Each show lasts 30 minutes and will feature the following 5 Rounds:

1. General Knowledge - 8 Questions first to buzz gets the chance to answer!
2. Top Trumps - Each city as a list of facts about there city, you have to guess which fact you will have most of! (For example highest gun crime rate!)
3. Guess The Intro - Each team hears 4 pieces of local music, they have to guess the artist and the song to get the points!
4. Round Our Way - A hot debate about which city is the best, the funniest pitch wins the points!
5. Verbal Diarrhoea - The classic Bragging Rights race for the finish!

There are 5 episodes in total and the first went online on January 24th 2008

Producer Alex (Alex Delve)
Due to a very unusual allergic reaction to being cool, Alex has spent most of his life sitting in dark rooms in London, listening to music and wishing he was Luke Skywalker. This, however, has proved to give him the perfect CV to produce Bragging Rights, where he sits in a dark room with a fake lightsaber pressing play on a CD player. However, its completely different as this dark room is in Liverpool.

When he’s not at his day job sitting in recording studios pretending to know what the big red button does, he sits behind the glass in the LIPA Radio studio, playing music, taking the piss out of Tony Blair, and pretending to know what the big red button does, and thereby providing a vital role in bringing you your favourite slightly low-budget radio show about nothing in particular.

Presenter Ian (Ian Threlfall)
After a traumatic childhood dominated by a crippling addiction to Bonjela and a subsequent numb jaw, while in hospital he listened to hospital radio! Ian’s parents realised that it was becoming nigh on impossible to shut him up and sent him off to be a presenter on Radio Wishing Well. After three years of playing to about as many people as bought the last Peter Andre album, he was rescued by Alex and together formed the dynamic radio show that is Bragging Rights.

A true Audio and PC geek, his actual home is a small web server in America.