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1. Desert island Ringers
A celebrity ringer chooses his favourite towers and plays extracts from his best peals.
2. DIY Ringing Disasters.
Teams of expert bellringers attempt to sort out those d-I-y re-hanging bodge ups.
3. Ringers' Hour.
Self explanatory!
4. Ringers Behaving badly.
A look at the seedier aspects of belfry life.
5. Bell wars meets Scrapyard Challenge.
Two teams attempt to build a simulator which will destroy all rivals.
6. This is your ringing Life.
Bellringing programme version of the well loved programme hosted by Michael Aspel.
7. A Question of Bells
Two teams demonstrate how much (or little) they know about ringing. Including all the favorite rounds from the sporting version: What happened next? and featuring belfry mishaps.
8. Ringers Question Time
A chance for ordinary ringers to question the experts from the central council about those controversial decisions.
9. A Tower at Bedtime.
Let yourself be lulled to sleep by some relaxing Stedman Caters or Bristol Maximus from some of the countries leading towers.
10. MasterRinger
The ultimate ringers quiz show.
Even More Bellringers Television
More output from the BBC – Bellringers’ Broadcasting Company
By Oddstruck
1. Tower Captain Swap. Two Tower Captains with very different leadership styles change places to see how their bands cope.
2. How Clean is your Ringing Room?. A visit from the cleaning experts exposes more muck and grime than expected.
3. Tower Doctor. Ever wondered why so many ringers leave your tower? It could be that the décor is either uninspiring or over the top. The Tower Doctor will re-decorate and re-style so your Ringing Room will be attractive to most ringers.
4. What not to Wear (When Ringing).Trinny and Suzannah offer advice on the best clothes to wear when in the Tower.
5. Location, Location, Location. Kirsty and Phil have a tough job on their hands – not only do they have to find a suitable property, they have to find a tower with bells and a band which will satisfy a bell-ringing couple.
6. Ringing Blunders. Those moments in the tower you would rather forget captured on camera, ranging from lassoing the flower vase with a slack bell-rope to pitching headfirst down the spiral stairs.
7. The Natural World of a Tower. The wildlife which shares your tower revealed
8. Have I got Ringing News for You. All the latest gossip revealed.
9. University Challenge. Teams comprised entirely of bellringers answer questions on all subjectsand display lamentable ignorance on all subjects except alcohol and….well, best not go into too many details………
10. Grumpy Old Ringers. Ringers old (and not so old) moan about what really gets them mad.
15 useless things sometimes found in ringing rooms
by
“Oddstruck”
1. Last year’s wedding list.
2. An out of date Ringing World calendar.
3. A pre-war carpet sweeper which puts more dust back on the carpet than it removes.
4. A pile of 20 Ringing Worlds, all the same, dated 1974, which features the tower on the front page.
5. An old bell rope, much spliced, which is now too short to be of use, but kept ‘just in case’.
6. A tin of solid grease, guaranteed to stop any bell dead in its tracks if put in the bearings
7. A box which used to contain handbells, now just used as a dump for odds and ends (the handbells were “borrowed” by the tune ringers 10 years ago and never returned.)
8. A pile of last year’s unwanted Association reports.
9. A wall chart showing blue lines of the standard 8 surprise major methods. The local band can manage plain hunt doubles on a good day
10. An old conical fire extinguisher, labelled “purchased June 1954” on it and not serviced since.
11. Half a roll of wire netting left over from the latest attempt to exclude the pigeons.
12. A bag of ancient assorted muffles, whose straps will all break at 10.30 on Remembrance Sunday.
13. A couple of mouldy hassocks, used in place of a solid wooden box if the rope is too short for one of the ringers.
14. A broken stay, mended with metal straps, kept ‘for emergency use’
15. An old computer, brought up to the ringing room in the hopes that if could be turned into a ringing simulator, but now gathering dust under the bench due to lack of anyone with the technical know-how.
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