History LoopholeAbuse / Radio

* In the ''Radio/SherlockHolmesBBCRadio'' episode "The Remarkable Performance of Mr Frederick Merridew", Watson believes there's something odd about a murder he witnessed, even though the police believe it to be an open and shut case. Holmes sympathises, but points out he can't go investigating based on Watson's feelings when he doesn't even have a client. So Watson hires him.

* On the BBC Radio 4 quiz show ''Just a Minute'', contestants (usually comedians and other personalities) are asked to speak on a given topic for one minute without hesitation, deviation or repetition. If a contestant slips up while speaking, the other contestants may "challenge", and if the challenge is valid (i.e. the speaker ''did'' hesitate, deviate or repeat themselves) then the challenger gets a point for a correct challenge and also gets to speak on the topic for the rest of the minute. When comedian ''Creator/StephenFry'' is on the show, he's been known to challenge ''himself'' when he slips up, and since the rules of Just a Minute ''don't'' explicitly forbid this, it is still considered a valid challenge, so he not only gets a point for a correct challenge but is also allowed to continue speaking, which always gets a few laughs or a round of applause from the audience!
* This ends up being what saves the day in ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'' MissingEpisode "Rebel in Regents Park". While yes, the gardener does legally own the island in the lake of Regent's Park and [[ForeignerForADay has every right to establish his own country inside its borders]], the ''lake'' the island is on belongs to England. If the water were to rise enough to cover the island, the latter would become part of the lake.

* In the Radio 4 drama ''Munchausen'', [[TheMunchausen the eponymous Baron]] tells a police interviewer that, 100 years earlier, he played his first and only round of golf, where he got 18 holes in one at St Andrews, and promised never to play again. When the interviewer protests that this is literally impossible, since there are two par 5 holes that ''nobody'' could get a hole in one in, the Baron explains that on the first he was assisted by an obliging seabird (and thereby coined the terms "birdie", "eagle" and "albatross"), and on the second he chipped the ball into a small cannon and fired it the length of the green. The interviewer protests that this is completely against the rules of golf, and Munchausen simply replies "[[ObviousRulePatch It is now.]]"

* In the Radio 4 drama ''Munchausen'', the eponymous Baron tells a police interviewer that, 100 years earlier, he played his first and only round of golf, where he got 18 holes in one at St Andrews, and promised never to play again. When the interviewer protests that this is literally impossible, since there are two par 5 holes that ''nobody'' could get a hole in one in, the Baron explains that on the first he was assisted by an obliging seabird (and thereby coined the terms "birdie", "eagle" and "albatross"), and on the second he chipped the ball into a small cannon and fired it the length of the green. The interviewer protests that this is completely against the rules of golf, and Munchausen simply replies "[[ObviousRulePatch It is now.]]"

* In the Radio 4 drama ''Munchausen'', the eponymous Baron tells a police interviewer that, 100 years earlier, he played his first and only round of golf, where he got 18 holes in one at St Andrews, and promised never to play again. When the interviewer protests that this is literally impossible, since there are two par 5 holes that ''nobody'' could get a hole in one in, the Baron explains that on the first he was assisted by an obliging seabird (and thereby coined the terms "birdie", "eagle" and "albatross"), and on the second he chipped the ball into a small cannon and fired it the length of the green. The interviewer protests that this is completely against the rules of golf, and Munchausen simply replies "[[ObviousRulesPatch It is now.]]"

* This ends up being what saves the day in ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry''
MissingEpisode "Rebel in Regents Park". While yes, the gardener does legally own the island in the lake of Regent's Park and [[ForeignerForADay has every right to establish his own country inside its borders]], the ''lake'' the island is on belongs to England. If the water were to rise enough to cover the island, the latter would become part of the lake.

* On the BBC Radio 4 quiz show ''Just a Minute'', contestants (usually comedians and other personalities) are asked to speak on a given topic for one minute without hesitation, deviation or repetition. If a contestant slips up while speaking, the other contestants may "challenge", and if the challenge is valid (i.e. the speaker ''did'' hesitate, deviate or repeat themselves) then the challenger gets a point for a correct challenge and also gets to speak on the topic for the rest of the minute. When comedian ''Creator/Stephen Fry'' is on the show, he's been known to challenge ''himself'' when he slips up, and since the rules of Just a Minute ''don't'' explicitly forbid this, it is still considered a valid challenge, so he not only gets a point for a correct challenge but is also allowed to continue speaking, which always gets a few laughs or a round of applause from the audience!

* On the BBC Radio 4 quiz show ''Just a Minute'', contestants (usually comedians and other personalities) are asked to speak on a given topic for one minute without hesitation, deviation or repetition. If a contestant slips up while speaking, the other contestants may "challenge", and if the challenge is valid (i.e. the speaker ''did'' hesitate, deviate or repeat themselves) then the challenger gets a point for a correct challenge and also gets to speak on the topic for the rest of the minute. When comedian Stephen Fry is on the show, he's been known to challenge ''himself'' when he slips up, and since the rules of Just a Minute ''don't'' explicitly forbid this, it is still considered a valid challenge, so he not only gets a point for a correct challenge but is also allowed to continue speaking, which always gets a few laughs or a round of applause from the audience!

* On the BBC Radio 4 quiz show ''Just a Minute'', contestants (usually comedians and other personalities) are asked to speak on a given topic for one minute without hesitation, deviation or repetition. If a contestant slips up while speaking, the other contestants may "challenge", and if the challenge is valid (i.e. the speaker ''did'' hesitate, deviate or repeat themselves) then the challenger gets a point for a correct challenge and also gets to speak on the topic for the rest of the minute. When comedian Stephen Fry is on the show, he's been known to challenge ''himself'' when he slips up, and since the rules of Just a Minute ''don't'' explicitly forbid this, it is still considered a valid challenge, so Fry not only gets a point for a correct challenge but continue speaking, which always gets a few laughs or a round of applause from the audience!

* On the quiz show ''Just a Minute'', featured on the UK's BBC Radio 4, contestants (usually comedians and other personalities) are asked to speak on a given topic for one minute without hesitation, deviation or repetition. If a contestant slips up while speaking, the other contestants may "challenge", and if the challenge is valid (i.e. the speaker ''did'' hesitate, deviate or repeat themselves) then the challenger gets a point for a correct challenge and also gets to speak on the topic for the rest of the minute. When comedian Stephen Fry is on the show, he's been known to challenge ''himself'' when he slips up, and since the rules of Just a Minute ''don't'' explicitly forbid this, it is still considered a valid challenge, so Fry not only gets a point for a correct challenge but continue speaking, which always gets a few laughs or a round of applause from the audience!

* On the quiz show ''Just a Minute'', featured on the UK's BBC Radio 4, contestants (usually comedians and other personalities) are asked to speak on a given topic for one minute without hesitation, deviation or repetition. If a contestant slips up while speaking, the other contestants may "challenge", and if the challenge is valid (i.e. the speaker DID hesitate, deviate or repeat themselves) then the challenger gets a point for a correct challenge and also gets to speak on the topic for the rest of the minute. When comedian Stephen Fry is on the show, he's been known to challenge HIMSELF when he slips up, and since the rules of Just a Minute don't explicitly forbid this, it is still considered a valid challenge, so Fry not only gets a point for a correct challenge BUT CAN ALSO continue speaking, which always gets a few laughs or a round of applause from the audience!

* In the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio ''The Contingency Club'', the villain the Red Queen has made a bet that she can take over Earth in 1864 without the use of advanced technology, but she has instead used her advanced knowledge to create contemporary versions of advanced technology, such as 'inventing' dynamite early or somehow creating clones.

* Exhaustively practiced by Douglas Richardson of ''Radio/CabinPressure''. For example, regulations require fuel samples to be taken prior to departure to check for water. Regulations do not specify that Douglas cannot put the samples into his car's petrol tank afterward.

** Another episode involved a bet that one person could travel from London to Dover (about 80 miles) and back before another person could draw one million dots. But ain't no rule says the dots have to be made one at a time. You could, for instance, stick 105 pens together...

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': ''Department Store Contest'': An unusual case of ''accidental'' loophole abuse. Miss Brooks wins a prize when a childhood letter to Santa Claus is accidently entered in a children's contest at Sherry's Department. As she wrote the letter ''when she was a child'', she was able to walk away with the prize and avoid trouble.

* Exhaustively practiced by Douglas Richardson of ''Radio/CabinPressure''. For example, regulations require fuel samples to be taken prior to departure to check for water. Regulations do not specify that Douglas cannot put the samples into his car's petrol tank afterward.