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| - At some point, however, he relented and instead invited any listener who cared to make a chart: he said, at the start of one 1992 show: "I'll tell you something I discovered over the weekend, while I was going through records trying to tidy up my room a little bit, and that is the envelope with all of last year's aborted Festive Fifty entries in it. I know from the mail that I've had, I still get it actually, on the subject, people saying how disappointed they were that there wasn't a Festive Fifty over last Christmas and New Year, so if there's anybody...I'm not going to broadcast it: I might say what the answer was, but if there's anybody who'd like to add them all up, I haven't got the time, frankly, but there aren't a great many of them, and if there's somebody listening who's got time
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| - At some point, however, he relented and instead invited any listener who cared to make a chart: he said, at the start of one 1992 show: "I'll tell you something I discovered over the weekend, while I was going through records trying to tidy up my room a little bit, and that is the envelope with all of last year's aborted Festive Fifty entries in it. I know from the mail that I've had, I still get it actually, on the subject, people saying how disappointed they were that there wasn't a Festive Fifty over last Christmas and New Year, so if there's anybody...I'm not going to broadcast it: I might say what the answer was, but if there's anybody who'd like to add them all up, I haven't got the time, frankly, but there aren't a great many of them, and if there's somebody listening who's got time on their hands, who'd like to work out what last year's Festive Fifty would have been if I'd bothered to go ahead with it, then I'll send the cards and letters off to you and you can do it for me. You'll get no reward at all, of course, apart from the solid satisfaction of doing a good job well." He eventually broadcast the Phantom 50, compiled by an anonymous listener in Sheffield, in the first part of 1993.
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