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[mrv3000]

Question: What time of the day does the Queen usually air her Christmas speech?

Related - everyone should have a shinyopals when writing fic. She is just so organized! There are tags! And lists! I think my favorite note is:

Scene 8:
...the nature of which we haven't decided on because none of us seem to know anything about [this].

MWAH!

ETA: Oh hell. Most British types are probably in bed by now, aren't they?

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[shinyopals.livejournal.com]

XD You're lucky I didn't start using the google docs spreadsheet feature!

EDIT: It's only half eleven, I'm sure some will be awake.

Or am I forgetting that I'm not necessarily normal? XD

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to become suspicious of your Britishness if you don't know when the Queen's speech is. Isn't there required saluting and tea during it or something?

[shinyopals.livejournal.com]

Oi! Enough of that, missy! :P I won't have you making such accusations!

Nobody I know watches the Queen's speech. Last year's Xmas top ten is at the bottom of this article and you may notice that while Eastenders and Doctor Who top it, the Queen doesn't even get a look in.

The whole point of the royals is that we ignore them and other countries regard them as interesting/a tourist attraction.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

I think (i.e. don’t quote me) that it’s broadcast at around 3pm.

I’ve the Christmas Radio Times somewhere, so I could check it, but I’m too lazy to go and find it ...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Ah ha! Thanks!

[electrictoes.livejournal.com]

Am awake & British.

My flatmate assures me that the Queen's speech is on 3-3.10pm. Don't ask me how she knows.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Am awake & British.

Hello!

My flatmate assures me that the Queen's speech is on 3-3.10pm. Don't ask me how she knows.

Oh, it's only 10 minutes long? I think I'm slightly disappointed. Not sure what I was expecting though.

[electrictoes.livejournal.com]

Hello! How are you? What time is it? =P

Apparently so. I have never seen it, though.

[boro-girl.livejournal.com]

If you have get to see one, it will feel a hell of a lot longer than ten minutes. And to add salt to that wound, she doesn't speak for the whole ten minutes. There will be this composition someone threw together in Windows Movie Maker, using over-played news clips to sum up the year.

[boro-girl.livejournal.com]

Hullo. Insomniac Brit checking in.

Queenie speaks from 1500 - 1510. Or 1515 in some cases. Depends if she's got a lot of stuff to apologise for. Like the whole Strictly Come Dancing voting debacle, scrapping a pointless 2.5% off VAT, the state of the economy, and Gordon Brown in general.

This is broadcast on BBC One and BBC radio at the same time.

Channel 4, on the other hand, have "The Alternative Christmas Speech" where someone equally or more famous, and infinitely more popular gives a speech, the content of which I have never had chance to find out. My family, whilst not being Royalists of any shape or form, feel it is bordering on sacriligious to watch anything else.

Either that, or we're too busy getting drunk to care / remember. It's also infinitely preferable.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Queenie speaks from 1500 - 1510. Or 1515 in some cases. Depends if she's got a lot of stuff to apologise for. Like the whole Strictly Come Dancing voting debacle, scrapping a pointless 2.5% off VAT, the state of the economy, and Gordon Brown in general.

BWAH!!!

My family, whilst not being Royalists of any shape or form, feel it is bordering on sacriligious to watch anything else.

Awwwwwww.

Either that, or we're too busy getting drunk to care / remember. It's also infinitely preferable.

HEH! I've had Christmases like that.

[bastetseye.livejournal.com]

according to my tv guide the queens speech is on just after top of the pops which starts at 2pm, and just before shark tale, which is on at 3.10.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Sandwiched between Top of the Pops and Shark Tale. *is amused*

[bastetseye.livejournal.com]

the queen is very modern don't you know! She is so down with the common people!

[boro-girl.livejournal.com]

*is spamming with comments*

TotP - something outdated, irrelevant and clung to like a deflating beacon of a time when things were much better. And lip synched.

Shark's Tale - so-so movie with a few points, good for amusement but leaves you feeling like you've seen it all before.


If that doesn't sum up the monarchy then I don't know what does...

[hwconundrum.livejournal.com]

According to the Radio Times, this year the Queen's Speech is being broadcast at 3pm on ITV. And BBC1. And the BBC HD Channel. And, as someone else said, most likely simultaneously broadcast on the radio as well. All of this is a cunning trick to increase the likelihood of someone accidentally channel-hopping onto it before experiencing a catastrophic remote-control failure, thus forcing them to watch the whole thing while trying to find new batteries/having an argument about who has to get off the sofa to press the button on the TV.

Oh, and apparently she addresses "the nation and the Commonwealth" so I guess they inflict this on Canada and Australia as well.

[boro-girl.livejournal.com]

3pm = 2am on the Eastern coast of Australia. Bet they show it live, thereby saving the Aussies from it.

God bless 'em...

[hwconundrum.livejournal.com]

I suppose it might still inconvenience insomniac Aussies, but on the other hand it might serve to 'cure' the very thing that ails them...

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

That’s if Rudd doesn’t somehow manage to turn the place into a republic inside the next eight days!

[shinyopals.livejournal.com]

Apparently last year, SIX MILLION PEOPLE watched it. WHY???

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

All of this is a cunning trick to increase the likelihood of someone accidentally channel-hopping onto it before experiencing a catastrophic remote-control failure, thus forcing them to watch the whole thing while trying to find new batteries/having an argument about who has to get off the sofa to press the button on the TV.

Bwahahahahahaha!

Oh, and apparently she addresses "the nation and the Commonwealth" so I guess they inflict this on Canada and Australia as well.

Oh right! They've got to get in on it too!

[goldy-dollar.livejournal.com]

CBC airs the Queen's Speech every year! I know this because we usually stumble upon it in a drunken stupor after dinner while we search blurredly for Christmas movies.

I'm not sure how this helps you, though.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Not sure how it helps either...

*cracks whip* Back in there! I've sort of gone off the rails. The Doctor and Rose have veered off into a conversation about bunny slippers and peeing. Basically the muse is simply pointing and laughing.

[audrich.livejournal.com]

Obviously, you have your answer, but i am so intrigued as to why you should want to know this, LOL.

The speech is usually followed by the other great British institution; the Christmas edition of Eastenders *g*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Obviously, you have your answer, but i am so intrigued as to why you should want to know this, LOL.

Fic purposes, of course! :D

The speech is usually followed by the other great British institution; the Christmas edition of Eastenders *g*

HEH!