DangerCon 40

Main Programme

11 am - Opening ceremony

The Committee: Robert Newman, Flick Flickdottir, Leon Bond, Ian Brown and poppy, will say hello, introduce people and explain why the programme isn't like it says here at all.

11:30 - Runaround

Do you remember the crap old kid's TV show with Mike Reid? It's like that. Everyone can join in.

12:00 - The Religious hour

Douglas Spencer will talk about something and The Reverend Jim De Liscard may, or may not talk about something else. It is a Well Known Fact that Danger Mouse is the Antichrist.

1:00 pm - Guest of Honour interview

Someone insignificant will interview our Fan Guest of Honour, James Bacon, the single most enthusiastic Danger Mouse fan in the world. There may be time for audience questions and a lynching afterwards.

2:00 - What's the best way to destroy a Chung Kuo novel? - Workshop

Dr Pete and Elvis will discuss and demonstrate various practical ways of getting rid of those oh-so-unwanted books in your life. And if you're really unlucky they might read out some Chung Kuo first.

3:00 - Not a hole in programming that we need to fill urgently

Not-bestselling-yet author MJ Simpson ("the world's leading Douglas Adamsologist" - The Independent) discusses his forthcoming biography of Douglas Adams and why it will be better than the official one despite mentioning Robert Newman on the first page.

4:00 - Family Fortunes

Four hand-picked experts take on four nobodies plucked from the audience in that "popular" quiz Family Fortunes. Robert asks the questions, ably assisted by the glamorous vacuous tart - Flick.

5:00 - TAFF Auction

Yes, lots of worthless tat is going to be auctioned in aid of TAFF a charity for sick welshmen, unless DangerCon has lost lots of money in which case some of it is going into my pocket to offset those losses. If you have any worthless crap you don't want then please offer it up for sale. Alison Scott of the Nova award winning Plokta Cabal is in charge.

6:00 - Games

3 hours of fun with such games as: World Trade Center Jenga; Live Action Board Gaming; Wackier Races; Poi and anything else that people bring. Or you could go get something to eat?

9:00 - Turkey readings

Literacy experts and James Bacon will attempt to read large, feathered, domesticated birds. Sponsored by Diverse Books.

10:00 - Subverting sex roles in Danger Mouse fandom

Flick chairpersons an all-female panel who will deliberate on and intellectualise the mutable shape of Danger Mouse fandom in the post-feminist world of the 21st century.

11:00 - Closing ceremony

From previous experience this consists of telling everyone to bog off home and then discovering that there are enormous amounts of clearing up to be done.

11:30 pm - Searching for Jim in the flower beds

A DangerCon tradition or an old charter or something. Jim gets blind drunk and we discover he has disappeared and have to search the grounds for him.

We make excitement, kneebiter!