Speech Radio You Have Listened To Lately

[Constantbee]

You have just made my weekend, my week and possibly this year! Ed Reardon (or "Ed Reardona", to quote a name is was suggested he adopted) IS the antidote to all the problems our lives face a ce moment and I recommend it to the House!

Agreed. Hope Elgar (his cat) is still around

[Constantbee]

Times Radio

Just wondered whether anybody here had sampled this. It's a brave foray by a national newspaper into speech radio broadcasting, and certainly something to give BBCR4 current affairs programming a run for its money. Was quite encouraged by a couple of programmes. It's just a question of developing new listening habits at a time when a lot of broadcasters are competing for our attention. DAB radio tranmission restricts its geographical reach but it is, happily, also available on the internet.

[Andrew]

Agreed. Hope Elgar (his cat) is still around

I heard it on the way home from work and I'm glad to report Elgar is up to his usual shenanigans!

[ardcarp]

Just wondered whether anybody here had sampled this [Times Radio]

Sounds interesting. Forgive my ignorance, but how do you get it?

[Constantbee]

Sounds interesting. Forgive my ignorance, but how do you get it?

Here's a link with some information:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio/how-to-listen-to-times-radio/online

See what you think

[Constantbee]

I heard it on the way home from work and I'm glad to report Elgar is up to his usual shenanigans!

Just wondering how to catch up on past series. It seems each series is still available to buy on CD - at a price. Also, selected episodes come up on Youtube. Presumably there are podcasts. Time was when classic Radio 4 comedy used to be broadcast through the night, programmes like Hancock and The Navy Lark. Was it on Radio 4 Extra? Forget now.

[Nick Armstrong]

Was it on Radio 4 Extra? Forget now.

Yes, earlier seasons come round pretty regularly there

[ardcarp]

Here's a link with some information:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio/how-to-listen-to-times-radio/online

See what you think

Thanks. Will try it out!

[AuntDaisy]

Just listening to "Desert Island Discs" as chosen by a 1950s disc unenthusiast* on John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme - brilliant.

* If such a word exists.

[Andrew]

Just wondering how to catch up on past series. It seems each series is still available to buy on CD - at a price. Also, selected episodes come up on Youtube. Presumably there are podcasts. Time was when classic Radio 4 comedy used to be broadcast through the night, programmes like Hancock and The Navy Lark. Was it on Radio 4 Extra? Forget now.

I have bought all 13 series as and when they come up on Apple. They cost £6.99 per series, so about £1 per episode, and as I listen to them constantly I've DEFINITELY had my money's worth!

[Bryn]

Cheating a bit, as it is yet to be broadcast but Stewart Lee: Unreliable Narrator should be well worth catching, either on Saturday evening or on-demand via Sounds, later.

[vinteuil]

Cheating a bit, as it is yet to be broadcast but Stewart Lee: Unreliable Narrator should be well worth catching, either on Saturday evening or on-demand via Sounds, later.

... in the Radio Times there is a nice puff-piece for this : I don't know whether the spelling below is deliberate or a typo -

" ... Stewart Lee has built a critically acclaimed stand-up career with a self-reverential act that wilfully plays on audiences' pre-conceived perceptions..."

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[Bryn]

... in the Radio Times there is a nice puff-piece for this : I don't know whether the spelling below is deliberate or a typo -

" ... Stewart Lee has built a critically acclaimed stand-up career with a self-reverential act that wilfully plays on audiences' pre-conceived perceptions..."

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Great typo, if entirely out of place, I would say, having met him at one or two improvised music gigs. His recitations in performances of Cage's Indeterminacy with Tania Chen and Steve Beresford, a couple of which can be found on a CD, are well worth catching, too.

[Serial_Apologist]

Great typo, if entirely out of place, I would say, having met him at one or two improvised music gigs. His recitations in performances of Cage's Indeterminacy with Tania Chen and Steve Beresford, a couple of which can be found on a CD, are well worth catching, too.

There's a nice Stewart Lee interview on youtube with psychic geography man Ian Sinclair from a few years back, but I won't bother people with it as it's an hour long on a subject of minority interest even by my standards and does drag a bit: at the end the audience is clearly so sleepy from all the concentrated erudition they have a job opening the Q&A session! Lee comes from that diminishing sector of working class intellectuals whose weight in gold decreases exponentially relative to their neglect in the mainstream media, if there is such a thing as an exponential decrease - I'm sure Stewart would know!

[Bryn]

There's a nice Stewart Lee interview on youtube with psychic geography man Ian Sinclair from a few years back, but I won't bother people with it as it's an hour long on a subject of minority interest even by my standards and does drag a bit: at the end the audience is clearly so sleepy from all the concentrated erudition they have a job opening the Q&A session! Lee comes from that diminishing sector of working class intellectuals whose weight in gold decreases exponentially relative to their neglect in the mainstream media, if there is such a thing as an exponential decrease - I'm sure Stewart would know!

Would that be the one about "The Last London"? If so, you exaggerate, it's less than 57 minutes long. Just been listening to last night's programme again from Sounds via a USB memory stick. It was immediately followed on the stick by last night's Freeness. How apposite was that?