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Death by radio

Updated on 28 March 2008

By Krishnan Guru-Murthy

Uncontrollable giggles by Radio 4's Charlotte Green this morning threatens to overtake Brian Johnston's famous "leg over" cricket commentary as the most famous radio corpsing of all time.

She'd just introduced an item about the oldest known recording of the human voice. The bizarre sound of the woman singing made the newsreader collapse in laughter or corpse, as its known in the trade.

Unfortunately the very next item she attempted to read was about the death of a Hollywood screenwriter.

Here's a flavour of it.

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