The Best Of Theme Time Radio Hour!

3:37 PM GMT 02/06/2009

Help us celebrate 100 episodes of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour. Sit back as MOJO's Ross Bennett filters the wit and wisdom of its enigmatic host...

"We try to be educational as well as entertaining... Kind of... infotational" (Season 3, Fruit)

"I've always believed one's ju-ju is self-contained. Meaning, if you think you're going to lose it, you very well might. The guys in Radiohead think they might lose their ju-ju if they left [their hometown] Oxford, and so they would. But if you think your ju-ju is secure, that you carry it with you wherever you go, you're free to wander the world. Me? I keep my ju-ju in a jar. So no matter where I go, I can always come back to it" (Season 3, Night)

"You know I don't usually like to tell people what I'm doing, but I am talking to a couple of car companies about possibly being the voice of their GPS system. I think it would be good if you're looking for directions and you heard my voice saying something like: 'Take a left at the next street... no, a right... you know what - just go straight.' I probably shouldn't do it because whichever way I go I always end up at the same place - on Lonely Avenue" (Season 3, Street Map)

On websites with strange names: "Look who created these. A lot of those computer guys used to be hippies. Though to be fair they aren't totally hippies. Because if they were totally hippies we'd be going on websites with names like Tapioca Sunshine... wait a second... that's not a bad idea for a name. While I'm playing this next song, I'm going to go and see how my bid is doing. I'm trying to get a thermos on eBay" (Season 2, Mail)

On Professor Longhair: "We told you about him before. And you know how to look him up in Wikipedia. That's where he lives - Wikipedia, Louisiana" (Season 3, Night)

"Few things go together as well as Country & Western music and crazy people" (Season 3, Madness)

On playing obscure songs: "Why should we play things you can hear anywhere else? On the other hand the artists we play are interesting and deserve their moment in the sun, besides I bet they're not obscure to their friends and neighbours" (Season 1, Friends & Neighbours)

"We got an email from Johnny Depp from Paris, France. He wants to know: 'Who was the father of modern communism?' Well Johnny, Karl Marx was the father of modern communism. He also fathered seven children" (Season 1, Father)

"I ran into Ellen Barkin the other day in Walgreens. I was buying socks. I didn't know what size I was... I was just eyeballing them" (Season 1, Eyes)

"One guy that was at home in the night was Batman. He was introduced in Detective Comics number #27 by Bob Kane. I always loved Batman. The way I looked at it, you had to come from another planet to be Superman, but I could be Batman... and you know I tried" (Season 3, Night)

Compiled by: Ross Bennett

Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 3:37 PM GMT 02/06/2009

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