Silk Cut
Tobacco companywww.jti.com
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Oct 9, 2026
Hugh ToddHOST
I was saying to someone, like my brother-in-law was around the other night, and I was saying, you know, or you said it, I can't remember.
Hugh ToddHOST
It was like, "We should have a book like this on Silk Cut.
Hugh ToddHOST
We should have a book like this on-
Dan DawsonHOST
Yeah
Lindsay RowntreeHOST
It's obvious if it's a well-known brand.
Lindsay RowntreeHOST
I'll give the example of the Golden Arches, McDonald's, and Silk Cut when tobacco advertising was banned.
Lindsay RowntreeHOST
I'd love to get your thoughts on kind of...
Lindsay RowntreeHOST
Actually, does regulation...
Chris WalkerGUEST
So I don't want to say, oh yes, it's very easy for creative people just to come up with all these new miraculous ideas.
Chris WalkerGUEST
Because I think it's probably telling that actually, whenever you think about it, I don't want to kind of do down any other attempts at it.
Chris WalkerGUEST
But those two examples that you've given of silk cut and the golden arches are probably two of the only examples you can think of where you can have a very iconic... that you can see for three seconds and understand exactly what it is.
Chris WalkerGUEST
And most brands are not in the position where they've got the longevity and the public knowledge and the public awareness of them to be able to get to that stage.
Sean MoncrieffHOST
I think it was the only brand." God, I'd never heard of that before.
Sean MoncrieffHOST
I, "I love to see reeling in the years when people smoked in offices and meetings." Uh, someone else says, "Before I gave up, I smoked Silk Cut Ultra, uh, like the lighter version of the cigarette.
Sean MoncrieffHOST
They wrecked my throat, but I thought they were at least a bit better for my health." Well, you don't know, because what, now obviously the, the contents of a cigarette aren't great for you, uh, by any stretch of the imagination, but you wonder what they used to add into those cigarettes or still do into the so-called lighter ones, and is, you know, is that setting off another set of problems for you.
Sean MoncrieffHOST
When I started smoking, it was €1.10. For 10 cigarettes.
Sean MoncrieffHOST
I think it was the only brand." God, I'd never heard of that before.
Sean MoncrieffHOST
"I, I love to see reeling in the years when people smoked in offices and meetings." Uh, someone else says, "Before I gave up, I smoked Silk Cut Ultra, uh, like the lighter version of the cigarette.
Sean MoncrieffHOST
They wrecked my throat, but I thought they were at least a bit better for my health." Well, you don't know because what, [clears throat] now obviously the, the contents of a cigarette aren't great for you, uh, by any stretch of the imagination.
Sean MoncrieffHOST
But you wonder what they used to add into those cigarettes, or still do, into the so-called lighter ones, and is, you know, is that setting off another set of problems for you.
Clay StewartHOST
[door creaking] The Creaking Door.
Clay StewartHOST
[instrumental music] The manufacturers of State Express 35 Silk Cut cigarettes take pleasure in presenting The Creaking Door.
Clay StewartHOST
[instrumental music] Good evening, friends of The Creaking Door.
Clay StewartHOST
The creaking door is [door creaking] open, so do come in.
Jo ElvinHOST
I love this story.
Jo ElvinHOST
The items include betting slips, glass bottles, planning documents for royal events, newspaper clippings, and a packet of Ma- Princess Margaret's Silk Cut, favorite cigarettes.
Jo ElvinHOST
Dickie, did you ever bury anything under the floorboards? Or-
Dickie ArbiterGUEST
I-
KuntHOST
Share a fag.
RoyHOST
[laughs] I was only allowed Silk Cut, though, 'cause I was f-
KuntHOST
Yeah, yeah, of course.
RoyHOST
Yeah
Richard HamiltonCORRESPONDENT
Embedded in a lump of brick was a ticket to an evening of playing cards or whist drive run by the Royal Household Social Club from nearly 80 years ago.
Richard HamiltonCORRESPONDENT
Other items in this unexpected time capsule include betting slips for the football pools from 1957, a pair of battered black hobnail boots, an empty Silk Cut cigarette packet, as well as theater listings from the Standard Newspaper in 1889.
Richard HamiltonCORRESPONDENT
There's also a schedule detailing Queen Elizabeth II's plans for a diplomatic reception in 1977, revealing that the monarch would work the room in a clockwise direction.
Richard HamiltonCORRESPONDENT
Also discovered were pages from the Daily Express Newspaper in 1966 describing conditions in the maximum security prison where the great train robbers were incarcerated.
Jim TrincaHOST
Oh.
Richie MorganHOST
"Away you go." [laughs] She had a face like that, didn't she? "Away you go." [laughing] "Give me 20 Silk Cut." [laughing] "I'm giving up.
Richie MorganHOST
I'm packing it in, you Silk Cut."
Owen O'DonnellGUEST
One of those Scottish mums that when you ask them, "What's for dinner tonight, Mum?" "Shite with sugar." [laughing]
Jim TrincaHOST
And you just wanna say, "What the fuck's wrong with you?"
Jim TrincaHOST
... 20, 20 John Major.
Richie MorganHOST
[laughs]
Jim TrincaHOST
20 Silk Cut Blue out of the replicator.
Craig CheethamHOST
Gentleman's boudoir type smell.
Craig CheethamHOST
Apart from the one that our publishing director, uh, had, which always smelt of Silk Cut and aftershave.
Mike AskewHOST
Mm.
Mike AskewHOST
[laughs]
Craig CheethamHOST
... well, I remember back in 2002, I think it was, I was, I was going on a date, and, uh, I was talking to him, um, 'cause we were on the smoking terrace at, uh, Dennis Publishing, and he said, "Oh, you're going on a date this weekend? I'll tell you what, I'll lend you my Jag." I thought that was very kind of him, you know? I can't remember, he's the publishing director, he's lending me his Jag for the weekend.
Craig CheethamHOST
Can't really turn it down.
Craig CheethamHOST
I then had to explain to the, the date, who subsequently became my girlfriend, that, um, the overpowering scent of cologne and Silk Cut was not me.
Craig CheethamHOST
[laughs] It wasn't my car.
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