Speech Radio You Have Listened To Lately

[DracoM]

Crikey - didn't know that? Susan Hill......!!!!!!!????

[LMcD]

Crikey - didn't know that? Susan Hill......!!!!!!!????

Yep - that Susan Hill, for a brief spell in the mid-1970s. She was also a regular contributor to 'Afternoon Theatre'.

[eighthobstruction]

....I refuse to know anything about Susan Hill on account of a rumour she may have written for Archers in 70's....would mean the same/tantamount [ but more up to date] of knowing how to upload to Tik-Tok.....

[Belgrove]

The R4 series ‘The Poet Laureate has gone to his shed’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p089r6hn

came to a close last night. It replaced Saturday Review because there was nothing new to review. Such a simple concept - two people in intelligent conversation about poetry and much else, but brilliantly executed by Simon Armitage who has such charm. The episode with naturalist/broadcaster Chris Packham was unexpectedly moving. Last night’s episode was a 45 minute monologue, yet was enthralling.

It strikes me the R3 has not had a good lockdown - sticking rigidly to its dull magazine dominated schedules, with no innovative programme making or flexibility that reflect upon the changed times.

[LMcD]

I've abandoned The Andrew Marr Show in favour of 'BH' on Radio 4, hosted by the genial Paddy O'Connell. Today's edition has included a BRILLIANT remote mash-up by the BBC Philharmonic of radio show themes, complete with whistles and applause contributed by listeners*, an interview with Ian Hislop on turning 60, and an 85-year-old paper reviewer in the shape of Richard Wilson. I mustn't forget the high-volume purring of the 16-year-old cat. Plenty of more serious stuff, including Theresa Villiers on the parlous situation of the 3 million or so people who've been 'excluded' from the various government initiatives.
* The BBC Philharmonic's slot runs from 0935 to 0940.

[DracoM]

Worth hearing this a.m.'s 'Broadcasting House' on R4 for the fantastic pot-pourri of listener tunes the BBC Phil arranged and recorded via lockdown technology.

'The Archers' please note - if a bloomin' whole SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CAN RECORD, then why, pray, cannot The Archers, and thus escape the misery of meaningless daftness it has descended to??????

[LMcD]

Worth hearing this a.m.'s 'Broadcasting House' on R4 for the fantastic pot-pourri of listener tunes the BBC Phil arranged and recorded via lockdown technology.

'The Archers' please note - if a bloomin' whole SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CAN RECORD, then why, pray, cannot The Archers, and thus escape the misery of meaningless daftness it has descended to??????

(See #171 )

[eighthobstruction]

Worth hearing this a.m.'s 'Broadcasting House' on R4 for the fantastic pot-pourri of listener tunes the BBC Phil arranged and recorded via lockdown technology.

'The Archers' please note - if a bloomin' whole SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CAN RECORD, then why, pray, cannot The Archers, and thus escape the misery of meaningless daftness it has descended to??????

Yes right....but unfortunately just novelty piece full of diamond teenager cliches....

[LMcD]

Yes right....but unfortunately just novelty piece full of diamond teenager cliches....

... unfortunate because ... ?

[DracoM]

(See #171 )

Apols.

[LMcD]

Apols.

No apology necessary - as long as folks get the chance to listen and enjoy it. I recognize that this little but of fun won't meet with universal approval, but hey ....
The only non-radio theme is 'The Great Escape', which was of course the idea underpinning the whole thing.

[Serial_Apologist]

Worth hearing this a.m.'s 'Broadcasting House' on R4 for the fantastic pot-pourri of listener tunes the BBC Phil arranged and recorded via lockdown technology.

'The Archers' please note - if a bloomin' whole SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CAN RECORD, then why, pray, cannot The Archers, and thus escape the misery of meaningless daftness it has descended to??????

Because the staff used to disinfect the stand-in articles for wind, thunder, footsteps in the lane, cows in the milking shed, are all on furlough?

[Serial_Apologist]

I've abandoned The Andrew Marr Show in favour of 'BH' on Radio 4, hosted by the genial Paddy O'Connell. Today's edition has included a BRILLIANT remote mash-up by the BBC Philharmonic of radio show themes, complete with whistles and applause contributed by listeners*, an interview with Ian Hislop on turning 60, and an 85-year-old paper reviewer in the shape of Richard Wilson. I mustn't forget the high-volume purring of the 16-year-old cat. Plenty of more serious stuff, including Theresa Villiers on the parlous situation of the 3 million or so people who've been 'excluded' from the various government initiatives.
* The BBC Philharmonic's slot runs from 0935 to 0940.

I might then follow you, LMcD. There is only one thing worse than an ex-smoking, anti-smoking fascist, surely, and that is an ex-leftie turned establishment reporter-commentator-presenter-apologist, Mr Marr.

[LMcD]

I might then follow you, LMcD. There is only one thing worse than an ex-smoking, anti-smoking fascist, surely, and that is an ex-leftie turned establishment reporter-commentator-presenter-apologist, Mr Marr.

My main gripe regarding the Andrew Marr show is that the choice of guests is such that each one will be expected to defend his or her established position, as a result of which I suspect that the average viewer will learn nothing that he or she didn't know at the beginning of the programme. One of Paddy O'Connell's strengths is that he doesn't take himself too seriously, and tries to encourage his guests to do the same. AND he doesn't INTERRUPT people nearly as much as far too many other hosts. What I would call a slipping of standards of late on the 'Today' programme may well lead me to spend more time with Petroc and Georgia.

[kernelbogey]

Byzantium - ripping yarn of 11th century Constantinople. Very well done R3 drama.