A rock in a sock and the Lambo scandal

THE year was 1987, the final week of the broadcasting season, and a sexed-up book review was about to rock the nation.

“The idea was that a group of nobodies went down to the wilds of Connemara to put the SAS Survival Guide to the test,” says Philip Kampf, producer of the segment for the Gay Byrne Show on radio. “We set them a trail, they were to follow it and use the book to see what they could, and could not, eat. Each morning they would report back to Gay about what they had been up too. If, by day three, the group wanted out, the review would still have been done and we could all have gone home.”

It didn’t quite work out that way.