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Charlie Brooker

Genius Series 3
Episode 6 of 6

Speeding motorway services? Two year dogs? Dave Gorman and Charlie Brooker ponder the public's inventions. From 2007.

Speeding motorway services? Two year dogs?

Dave Gorman asks writer and humourist Charlie Brooker to select the public's best loopy idea.

Award-winning comedian Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest chew over the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius inventions, schemes and policies of the public.

Producer: Simon Nicholls

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007.

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