| abstract | - "Our Tune" was Master Bates' most famous radio show feature and was so popular with British listeners that planes would be allowed to crash and soldiers would stop fighting (notably during the Falklands War) in order for people to listen to the feature. Over a really fucking miserable-sounding tune, Bates would relate a tale of terrible woe sent in by a listener: The story would always end with the relationship completely falling apart and ending, usually because the other-half of the person who had submitted the story had died, or had an affair, or turned out to be a communist. The submitter would end requesting a tune which "reminded them of bedda times". It was usually something syrupy and terrible, often from the 1970s. Bates didn't even leave enough time for a "nose-blowing" break before leaping back into normalcy with "Why Are People Grudgeful?" by The Fall or something else from the Radio One Playlist.
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