RSK XFM Remastered

PART 3 of a compilation of one of Karl Pilkington's most beloved features, MONKEY NEWS; and the utterly pointless spin-off feature, CHEAP AS CHIMPS, as well as a smattering of other random monkey bits.Monkeys are near and dear to Karl's simian heart. He spent much of his time during the XFM years sitting at home, looking up spurious monkey facts on the Internet. He would then share this unreliable monkey-related drivel with his two best friends, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, who, over time, became increasingly irate at Karl's evermore outlandish monkey musings.**TO BE CONTINUED**

High IQ monkeys join the army (0:00)Indian prison for monkeys - Pheff... Robbin' and that (4:56)Monkey Olympian runs 400 Meters (9:48)Ricky's zoo photo shoot (15:02)Compulsory monkeys (15:47)Adopted baby got 'airier, turned out it was a chimp (16:20)Chimp on tricycle in London to Brighton Bike Ride (18:01)Monkey that went into Space - A little monkey gettin' on with it (23:40)Halfords Ads - Monkey mechanics (28:15)Little woman monkey prostitute (29:45)Are you familiar with 'undredth monkey? - Chimp washing a potato (33:23)Monkey football team - little goalkeeper physicist (35:45)Monkey in old people's home (37:15)Monkey chatroom (38:20)Monkeys are drivel (41:29)Film about woman going off with Monkey - 1 (42:54)Masked monkey fighting crime (43:25)Film about woman going off with Monkey - 2 (45:55)Monkey Matt (46:27)Got rid of Monkey News (46:44)Tea picked by little chimps (47:03)There's no monkey news (48:11)Chucking monkeys about (48:57)Gorilla looks after Donna Air's baby for a week (49:45)

PART 2 of a compilation of one of Karl Pilkington's most beloved features, MONKEY NEWS; and the utterly pointless spin-off feature, CHEAP AS CHIMPS, as well as a smattering of other random monkey bits.Monkeys are near and dear to Karl's simian heart. He spent much of his time during the XFM years sitting at home, looking up spurious monkey facts on the Internet. He would then share this unreliable monkey-related drivel with his two best friends, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, who, over time, became increasingly irate at Karl's evermore outlandish monkey musings.**TO BE CONTINUED**

Quick CHEAP AS CHIMPS (0:00)Monkey Robber Pays Off Zookeeper (0:36)Monkey Railway Signalman (6:45)Monkey Typing Experiment (12:06)Monkey Hairdresser (16:09)Japanese Snow Monkeys (20:50)Monkeys for Sale (23:57)Monkey Doing a Web Chat - My name is Marty (24:42)Monkey #86 Drives to Spain (27:56)Karl the Little Red Monkey (33:36)Monkeys Catching on to Coverage (34:14)Monkey World 1 (34:29)Little Asian Monkey with Pointiest Eyes (35:21)Another Monkey Marriage (39:12)Monkey World 2 (41:38)Homeless Monkey Arrested in Russia (42:25)Monkeys in Tracksuits 'n That (47:12)Monkey Spotted Holidaying in Cornwall (47:53)Monkey World 3 - Disappointment (48:44)Chimp Tried it on with Man's Wife (50:29)"Monkey Business" - Monkeys from the Rough Bit of the Island (53:24)Monkey News Saved by Overwhelming Listener Support (56:54)Spa for Monkeys Run by Couple of Chimps (57:28)

PART 1 of a compilation of one of Karl Pilkington's most beloved features, MONKEY NEWS; and the utterly pointless spin-off feature, CHEAP AS CHIMPS, as well as a smattering of other random monkey bits.Monkeys are near and dear to Karl's simian heart. He spent much of his time during the XFM years sitting at home, looking up spurious monkey facts on the Internet. He would then share this unreliable monkey-related drivel with his two best friends, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, who, over time, became increasingly irate at Karl's evermore outlandish monkey musings.**TO BE CONTINUED**

Hairless Chimp Tries It On With Zookeeper's Wife (0:00)Chimp Does Time For Smoking (4:49)First Monkey To Have His Name Tattooed On His Head (7:18)Infinite Monkey Shakespeare Conundrum (15:58)Hackney Chimp Nickin' DVDs (26:49)Corpus Callosum (30:56)Bonobos (33:40)Monkey In India Trips a Fella (39:07)Oliver the Humanzee (40:05)Invention of CHEAP AS CHIMPS (48:37)Monkeys Havin' a Chat (49:51)CHEAP AS CHIMPS - How Many Bananas? (52:50)Koko the Gorilla (55:48)CHEAP AS CHIMPS - How much does a chimp cost? (59:53)Monkey Wedding (1:02:47)Monkey Bank Robber (1:06:37)

PART 6 (of 6) & FINAL installment of Karl Pilkington's ROCKBUSTERS (a cheap knockoff of Blockbusters). Not only was this one of Karl's longest running features (along with Monkey News), but it was also voted by fans as his greatest XFM feature of all time: https://x.com/rskxfm/status/1714711967305269595?s=20. Karl Pilkington gives a cryptic clue (it's usually nonsense) and the initials of a famous band or artist (he sometimes gets the initials wrong), and listeners either call, or as the feature developed (unless they were experiencing technical difficulties), email in their answers. The winner gets an arbitrary assortment of tat, often including a pointless DVD seemingly chosen at random from the bargain bucket. Fans will recall Stephen Merchant announcing such great prizes as Ladder 49 (the mediocre John Travolta film), or Children of the Corn (Peter Horton's in it). Ricky Gervais once mused: "Imagine getting that and going 'Excellent, we can watch this now!'"PART 6 ends with Steve in a state of total astonishment after Karl's penultimate Rockbuster, Kasabian: "What?! That's one of your worst, that... That's terrible." And in response to Karl's final Rockbuster, Donna Summer, Steve is utterly stupefied: "Man alive, that was shocking."**THE END**

Keane (0:00)Courtney Love (11:44)Yoko Ono (19:28)Amy Winehouse (26:38)Nick Drake & The Ramones (34:51)Kasabian & Donna Summer (38:31)

PART 5 (of 6) of Karl Pilkington's ROCKBUSTERS (a cheap knockoff of Blockbusters). Not only was this one of Karl's longest running features (along with Monkey News), but it was also voted by fans as his greatest XFM feature of all time: https://x.com/rskxfm/status/1714711967305269595?s=20. Karl Pilkington gives a cryptic clue (it's usually nonsense) and the initials of a famous band or artist (he sometimes gets the initials wrong), and listeners either call, or as the feature developed (unless they were experiencing technical difficulties), email in their answers. The winner gets an arbitrary assortment of tat, often including a pointless DVD seemingly chosen at random from the bargain bucket. Fans will recall Stephen Merchant announcing such great prizes as Ladder 49 (the mediocre John Travolta film), or Children of the Corn (Peter Horton's in it). Ricky Gervais once mused: "Imagine getting that and going 'Excellent, we can watch this now!'"PART 5 ends with Ricky saying: "None of 'em work. Another pile of cr@%, from the mind of little stupid... what a dopey little Ffffff... The end of Rockbusters, from the stupid little $h!tt^ brain, I'm gonna say it, of Pilkington."**TO BE CONTINUED**

Dido (0:00)Missy Elliott & Busta Rhymes (05:39)Dire Straits & Seal (12:06)Phil Collins (17:59)Gareth Gates (29:08)Outkast (33:38)The Divine Comedy (40:13)

PART 4 (of 6) of Karl Pilkington's ROCKBUSTERS (a cheap knockoff of Blockbusters). Not only was this one of Karl's longest running features (along with Monkey News), but it was also voted by fans as his greatest XFM feature of all time: https://x.com/rskxfm/status/1714711967305269595?s=20. Karl Pilkington gives a cryptic clue (it's usually nonsense) and the initials of a famous band or artist (he sometimes gets the initials wrong), and listeners either call, or as the feature developed (unless they were experiencing technical difficulties), email in their answers. The winner gets an arbitrary assortment of tat, often including a pointless DVD seemingly chosen at random from the bargain bucket. Fans will recall Stephen Merchant announcing such great prizes as Ladder 49 (the mediocre John Travolta film), or Children of the Corn (Peter Horton's in it). Ricky Gervais once mused: "Imagine getting that and going 'Excellent, we can watch this now!'"PART 4 includes such gems as New Odor (New Order), Buy on Ferry (Bryan Ferry), Christ de berg! (Chris de Burgh), and Be-On-Sea (Beyonce).**TO BE CONTINUED**

New Order (0:00)Metallica (08:02)Nickelback (14:42)Bryan Ferry & Chris de Burgh (22:48)Tony Bennett (32:11)Beyonce (39:31)50 Cent (46:53)

PART 3 (of 6) of Karl Pilkington's ROCKBUSTERS (a cheap knockoff of Blockbusters). Not only was this one of Karl's longest running features (along with Monkey News), but it was also voted by fans as his greatest XFM feature of all time: https://x.com/rskxfm/status/1714711967305269595?s=20. Karl Pilkington gives a cryptic clue (it's usually nonsense) and the initials of a famous band or artist (he sometimes gets the initials wrong), and listeners either call, or as the feature developed (unless they were experiencing technical difficulties), email in their answers. The winner gets an arbitrary assortment of tat, often including a pointless DVD seemingly chosen at random from the bargain bucket. Fans will recall Stephen Merchant announcing such great prizes as Ladder 49 (the mediocre John Travolta film), or Children of the Corn (Peter Horton's in it). Ricky Gervais once mused: "Imagine getting that and going 'Excellent, we can watch this now!'"PART 3 ends with Ricky giving Karl a reprieve: "I'll let him off. Those were alright, those." Then, Steve announces the winner, who was chosen partly because she submitted a scintillating monkey fact which segued nicely into MONKEY NEWS.**TO BE CONTINUED**

Eminem (0:00)The Detroit Spinners (06:19)Oasis (13:35)Rockbusters is Gone (21:40)Terence Trent D'Arby (22:55)Kenny Loggins (34:18)Buzzcocks (42:30)Mr. Mister (49:49)

PART 2 (of 6) of Karl Pilkington's ROCKBUSTERS (a cheap knockoff of Blockbusters). Not only was this one of Karl's longest running features (along with Monkey News), but it was also voted by fans as his greatest XFM feature of all time: https://x.com/rskxfm/status/1714711967305269595?s=20. Karl Pilkington gives a cryptic clue (it's usually nonsense) and the initials of a famous band or artist (he sometimes gets the initials wrong), and listeners either call, or as the feature developed (unless they were experiencing technical difficulties), email in their answers. The winner gets an arbitrary assortment of tat, often including a pointless DVD seemingly chosen at random from the bargain bucket. Fans will recall Stephen Merchant announcing such great prizes as Ladder 49 (the mediocre John Travolta film), or Children of the Corn (Peter Horton's in it). Ricky Gervais once mused: "Imagine getting that and going 'Excellent, we can watch this now!'"PART 2 ends with Steve exclaiming: "This is the worst competition ever!" And Ricky saying "We're stopping this... That's ruined that one then. Well that's run that one into the ground..."**TO BE CONTINUED**

Mis-Teeq (0:00)Limp Biscuit (12:49)Led Zeppelin (22:02)Bananarama (30:53)Aerosmith (38:39)Anita Baker (45:43)Freda Payne (53:15)Chaka Khan (1:01:09)

PART 1 (of 6) of Karl Pilkington's ROCKBUSTERS (a cheap knockoff of Blockbusters). Not only was this one of Karl's longest running features (along with Monkey News), but it was also voted by fans as his greatest XFM feature of all time: https://x.com/rskxfm/status/1714711967305269595?s=20.Karl Pilkington gives a cryptic clue (it's usually nonsense) and the initials of a famous band or artist (he sometimes gets the initials wrong), and listeners either call, or as the feature developed (unless they were experiencing technical difficulties), email in their answers. The winner gets an arbitrary assortment of tat, often including a pointless DVD seemingly chosen at random from the bargain bucket. Fans will recall Stephen Merchant announcing such great prizes as Ladder 49 (the mediocre John Travolta film), or Children of the Corn (Peter Horton's in it). Ricky Gervais once mused: "Imagine getting that and going 'Excellent, we can watch this now!'"PART 1 ends with a cliffhanger as Ricky says: "That's the end of that feature, until you can get ones that work. Okay, so you won't hear anymore of that, because it's rubbish."**TO BE CONTINUED**

Underworld's Born Slippy (0:00)Atomic Kitten (15:18)NSYNC (23:23)Justin Timberlake (33:29)Destiny's Child (44:12)Whitney Houston (51:28)Madonna (59:02)

Compilation of ALL of Karl Pilkington's SONGS OF PHRASE feature, for which Karl combines pieces of songs to re-enact "popular" sayings from the show. Originally, Karl called the feature, CROSSWORDS, because he got words and sort of crossed 'em and that... The name changed to SONGS OF PHRASE in response to a fan's suggestion. Listeners try to guess all of the songs that the well-known phrase is composed of.The phrases were mostly derogatory drivel to begin with, but somehow, the feature devolved over time into even more offensive gibberish. Ricky Gervais had this to say: "This is a desperate feature, innit?" To which, Stephen Merchant responded: "It really is awful." Truly one of Karl's most shambolic features.

There's This Hairy Chinese Kid (0:00)And You'll Never See An Old Man Eat a Mars Bar Bar Bar (9:52)My Auntie Had Wind For Five Minutes (21:03) My Neighbor Had A Horse In A House (28:25)The Elephant Man Is My Favourite Film (37:53)No More Cheeky Freak Of The Week (44:10)Daddy Never Gonna Stop Robbing From Telephone Box (54:53)Tell me Why, Tell me Why, Tell Me Why, Don't They Play The Game Of Swingball (1:01:00)I Know You're Just 16 But Looking All Of 21, That's Because The Chinese Look Older (1:10:05)Galileo! Don't Talk To Me About Science, Please Make Me Television (1:17:40)My Girlfriend Had A Problem With Her Marrow (1:27:28)