Speech Radio You Have Listened To Lately

[Nick Armstrong]

Very much enjoying the broadcast on R4extra of the 2003 dramatisation of CP Snow’s Strangers and Brothers currently running daily (10 1-hour episodes)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017gq5y

Very good cast indeed making it an absorbing experience for me.

[LMcD]

BBC Sounds Brexitcast Dead Ringers Special - a trail for their forthcoming trio of programmes, starting 27 minutes in.

[Bryn]

BBC Sounds Brexitcast Dead Ringers Special - a trail for their forthcoming trio of programmes, starting 27 minutes in.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07x203z

[LMcD]

'Schubert's Winter Journey' - a 5-part exploration by Ian Bostridge of 'Die Winterreise'.
BBC Radio Extra, 1445-1400 (repeated at 0245-0300) starting this very afternoon.

[johncorrigan]

Poet John Burnside and musician Erland Cooper create a soundscape in the Orkneys in 'Wild Music' on BBC Radio 4. Most enjoyable and evocative...made me want to go to the sea.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000cnc4

[Old Grumpy]

Three Vicars Talking on Radio 4.

I was directed to this intriguing programme by a friend and have just listened to the Christmas Edition.

Three previous episodes (Funerals, Marriages and Birth in that order) broadcast previously are still on BBC Sounds and said to be there for over a year.


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[eighthobstruction]

....anybody listened to The Real George Orwell....4 episodes which started Monday http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...976#post773976

....I enjoyed it as an afternoon drama might be enjoyed....sorry when this first episode finished, wanted more....

[Serial_Apologist]

....anybody listened to The Real George Orwell....4 episodes which started Monday http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...976#post773976

....I enjoyed it as an afternoon drama might be enjoyed....sorry when this first episode finished, wanted more....

And yet the conclusions drawn as to the relevance of Orwell's pronouncements for today all seemed rather obvious and non-conclusive, I thought. We all desperately need something more conclusive that ties all the loose ends together if we are to avoid terminal despondency.

[eighthobstruction]

And yet the conclusions drawn as to the relevance of Orwell's pronouncements for today all seemed rather obvious and nonm-conclusive, I thought. We all desperately need something more conclusive that ties all the loose ends together if we are to avoid terminal despondency.

....well the chances of 7- 8 Billion people getting those strings tied (awful lot of string) is unlikely....but my own particular brand 8thO despondency is going to end fairly soon and good riddance....does the world do 'conclusive'; I don't think it does; 7-8 Billion personal philosophies....and most of them wouldn't recognise a dogma if it came up and bit them....<thumbs up/smile>

[DracoM]

BBC World Service on Erasmus Darwin. Quite a guy!!

[Joseph K]

Will Self is about to appear on R4 talking about JG Ballard's prescience and the pandemic.

[Serial_Apologist]

Will Self is about to appear on R4 talking about JG Ballard's prescience and the pandemic.

They shut him up quick enough - "not enough time" etc. Well-timed, actually, to run out before the 9 o'clock news - can't afford the masses getting ideas above their station now, can we!

[ardcarp]

I really enjoyed this afternoon's radio 4 Drama, in which Battista's Cuba turned away a ship full of Jewish pssengers fleeing Nazi Germany. Even though it's a play based on another play based on a book based on a true story, it was brilliant in the (ultimate) hands of Tom Stoppard.

The Voyage of the St. Louis

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000j1pf

Several months before the outbreak of the Second World War, an ocean liner, the St Louis, leaves Germany with over 900 Jewish refugees on-board, all hoping to escape persecution. The incredible true story of that journey is now brought to vivid life in Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of Daniel Kehlmann’s play.

Based on the book The Voyage of the Damned by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts

[Andrew]

On a lighter note I've been an enthusiastic listener to "Ed Reardon's Week" since its inception on Radio 4. So much so that, during the hiatus between series 12 & 13 I emailed Andrew Nickolds, to ask if more was forthcoming. He replied, saying more episodes were in the pipeline, and sent a picture of Ed's abode, complete with cat box for Elgar and a tin of value pilchards!

I've now downloaded all 13 series onto my smartphone and have been listening to them during the lock-down. It really iS a tonic in these strange times & I recommend it to one and all!

[ardcarp]

I've loved the series too.