Down The Line
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    Spoof phone-in show starring Rhys Thomas as the clueless and tactless DJ
    Gary Bellamy.

    Award winning journalist Gary Bellamy is waiting for your calls, as Down
    The Line invites listeners to call Radio 4's groundbreaking phone-in
    programme.

    This comedy, created by the team behind The Fast Show, parodies radio
    phone-in shows. The show's host, the keen but dim Gary Bellamy, fields
    calls from experts, idiots, bigots and nutters about a different topic
    each week.

    When it was launched in May 2006, Down The Line caused a massive media
    stir. The first episode was such an accurate parody of a bad phone-in show
    that many listeners were fooled into believing it was genuine, and thus
    complained to the BBC.

    The BBC helped with the subterfuge by publishing a fake profile for Gary
    Bellamy on the Radio 4 website with a fake picture; plus they set up a
    phone number for the show (with a message saying that the line was busy);
    and dropped the credits to hide the fact the callers were actually actors.

    It wasn't until almost a week later that the people behind the show were
    unveiled as none other than the well known comedy actors Paul Whitehouse,
    Charlie Higson and Rhys Thomas.