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  • Serial_Apologist
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 37726

    Originally posted by Bryn View Post
    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?
    That was the one, Bryn.

    Coincidences seem to happen to me all the time these days!

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    • LMcD
      Full Member
      • Sep 2017
      • 8502

      The first group to become officially Covid-compliant are The Pfizer Chiefs.
      If that's your kind of humour, Series 75 of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' has just started on Radio 4 and iPlayer (sorry, 'BBC Sounds')

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      • johncorrigan
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 10379

        Originally posted by LMcD View Post
        The first group to become officially Covid-compliant are The Pfizer Chiefs.
        If that's your kind of humour, Series 75 of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' has just started on Radio 4 and iPlayer (sorry, 'BBC Sounds')
        I thought it was a very disappointing episode, L, although it may be the annoying online audience which I'm beginning to really despise. However, it did have me wondering if 'ISIHAC' has now had its day, and I say that with a heavy heart after years of laughs.

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        • LMcD
          Full Member
          • Sep 2017
          • 8502

          Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
          I thought it was a very disappointing episode, L, although it may be the annoying online audience which I'm beginning to really despise. However, it did have me wondering if 'ISIHAC' has now had its day, and I say that with a heavy heart after years of laughs.
          I'm a relatively recent convert to the programme but I agree that this episode wasn't that great. Almost 5 minutes elapsed before we were introduced to the teams, which is quite a slice out of a 28-minute show, and Herr Wehn became a bit of a pain.
          Radio 4 comedy has always been a bit hit-and-miss. I'm afraid that even 'Dead Ringers' are John Finnemore are starting to sound a bit tired to my ears, and - try as I might - I've never really 'got into' Ed Reardon

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          • johncorrigan
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 10379

            Originally posted by LMcD View Post
            I'm a relatively recent convert to the programme but I agree that this episode wasn't that great. Almost 5 minutes elapsed before we were introduced to the teams, which is quite a slice out of a 28-minute show, and Herr Wehn became a bit of a pain.
            Radio 4 comedy has always been a bit hit-and-miss. I'm afraid that even 'Dead Ringers' are John Finnemore are starting to sound a bit tired to my ears, and - try as I might - I've never really 'got into' Ed Reardon
            I'm afraid I've been listening to 'ISIHAC' since the days when Willie Rushton was one of the team. Jack Dee's done an excellent job since Humph died, and maybe Monday was one of the blips that happen from time to time, but I tend to think it's terminal. Anyway, I have said elsewhere that one of the things that annoys me about comedy programmes at the moment, TV and radio, is the use of an on-line audience - essentially I am left hearing this horrible hollow sound of people laughing on their own, together ('News Quiz', 'Have I got News for You', 'ISIHAC' spring to mind at the moment). It's like people don't know when to laugh, so they laugh at everything and it sounds so fakey. From the point of view of Me the listener, I have come to the conclusion that they would be better, either with a laughter track, or no audience at all...until they can get people back in an auditorium together, that is.

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            • kernelbogey
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 5764

              Apologies if this has already appeared upthread, but on the topic of R4 humour I fell across Alex Edelman and searched out his previous series on Sounds. His last series is the best IMV, notwithstanding another irritating online audience. Very funny, Jewish-inflected humour - laugh out loud stuff for me.

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              • vinteuil
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 12861

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                ... In Our Time this morning on Edward Gibbon was excellent - Karen O'Brien, Charlotte Roberts, David Womersley. If you listen via Sounds, well worth catching the ten minutes tacked on to the end of the programme, where the contributors are given a chance to add stuff that they thought had been missed out in the broadcast programme. David Womersley is the editor of magnificent 1994 edition of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and one of the virtues of this morning's programme was that it makes you want to pull the volumes off the shelves and immerse yourself all over again...

                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                Odd that while Radio 3, the kulchur channel, seems to be selling its soul for who knows what mess of pottage - over on Radio 4 they are still making grown-up thought-provoking programmes
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                • Serial_Apologist
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 37726

                  Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
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                  ... In Our Time this morning on Edward Gibbon was excellent - Karen O'Brien, Charlotte Roberts, David Womersley.

                  .
                  Wasn't it just!? Normally I find the programme hard to stomach, but this morning's guests more than made up for that.

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                  • ardcarp
                    Late member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 11102

                    Yes, a very good edition of the programme. Ever since learning about Decline and Fall at school, it has been on my bucket list to read. Sadly it remains an unfulfilled ambition. But good to hear how enlightened Gibbon was in his views, given the age he lived in.

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                    • vinteuil
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12861

                      Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
                      . But good to hear how enlightened Gibbon was in his views, given the age he lived in.
                      ... well it was the Age of Enlightenment, after all









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                      Last edited by vinteuil; 17-06-21, 17:46.

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                      • Cockney Sparrow
                        Full Member
                        • Jan 2014
                        • 2288

                        An enjoyable drive this morning, listening to an episode in series 2 of “Prepper” -
                        “Two remarkable women prepare for the end of the world and make a weekly podcast about it”.
                        ……..With Sue Johnston as the lead actress. As ever, comedy is a personal response, but I find this an amusing send up - of what is, in my appreciation, a largely American phenomenon.

                        Sharp writing - for example “… there’s nothing like a team building exercise to really drive home the divisions in a group….” - chimes with my experience (end result - we knew each other better, but mostly liked each other no greater) No wonder the first series of Prepper won the Writers Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Comedy 2020.

                        Two remarkable women prepare for the end of the world and make a weekly podcast about it.

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37726

                          Originally posted by Cockney Sparrow View Post
                          An enjoyable drive this morning, listening to an episode in series 2 of “Prepper” -
                          “Two remarkable women prepare for the end of the world and make a weekly podcast about it”.
                          ……..With Sue Johnston as the lead actress. As ever, comedy is a personal response, but I find this an amusing send up - of what is, in my appreciation, a largely American phenomenon.

                          Sharp writing - for example “… there’s nothing like a team building exercise to really drive home the divisions in a group….” - chimes with my experience (end result - we knew each other better, but mostly liked each other no greater) No wonder the first series of Prepper won the Writers Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Comedy 2020.

                          https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000x7tq
                          Didn't realise you were preparing for the end of the world, CS!

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37726

                            Cultural Exchange: Bristol (Radio 4: 29 June)

                            Neil Maggs and Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley go in search of the Bristol beyond the headlines.


                            Just listened to this - a real nostalgia trip for me - and would like to share it with the Forum, offering as it does a vivid impression of the city today.

                            I lived in Bristol between 1968 and 1993, since when I have been back a few times for visits to relatives, weddings etc. The city had changed somewhat, especially the central shopping area around The Horsefair: new buildings and silver birches in the paved pedestrianised zones, providing a pleasant, intimate, light green canopy. Comment was also made about the hike in local property prices, in part at least down to incomers from places such as London. When I first went there to live what I found seemed like a small scale version of London - likewise a series of villages, but one which could be exited for lovely rural surrounds in an hour - even on foot if one took particular routes away from the historic Centre. Which is in the description offered by our two delightful hosts in this vividly descriptive programme, one of them an ex-Londoner.

                            Well worth the half hour listen - I wonder what our host and resident Bristolian french frank will make of it!

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                            • ardcarp
                              Late member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 11102

                              Will have a listen to this...even though I hardly ever go to Bristol. The traffic seems pretty awful all the time!
                              However there was a fascinating episode of The Blitz: the Bombs that Changed Britain on BBC4 (I think it was episode 4). OK it was not speech radio, but it was devoted to Bristol. It was fascinating from the devastating effect it had on the morale of Bristolians. It appears there was none of the 'blitz spirit' sometimes attributed to Londoners, mainly because the city was treated very badly (ignored?) by the government. The Bristoliams became quite anti-establishment, it seems. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jggy5

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                              • french frank
                                Administrator/Moderator
                                • Feb 2007
                                • 30358

                                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                                http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sqss

                                Just listened to this - a real nostalgia trip for me - and would like to share it with the Forum, offering as it does a vivid impression of the city today.

                                [ … ] Well worth the half hour listen - I wonder what our host and resident Bristolian french frank will make of it!
                                Thank you for drawing my attention to it, S_A. Interesting, but not a Bristol that I really recognised. If I remember, one of the speakers mentioned the Colston incident and the Kill the Bill riots as not really involving yer actual Bristolians, but students from outside the city, middle-class people, university educated. The only time I went to Hartcliffe was just after the launch of the SDP when the first council byelection cropped up there and the local Liberals said we could fight it as they had never set up an association in Bristol South, whereas we had a constituency-wide organisation within a few weeks. So I canvassed the council estates of Hartcliffe and still remember it. A bit bleak but the people were less hostile than some in middleclass Bristol West, I discovered, especially in Clifton

                                Nothing much about these 'affluent' areas in the programme, but I think I'm probably the only Bristolian living there. I'd be hard put to think of any among my friends, neighbours and acquaintances. Funny that. Even I spent most of my working life in London and Aberdeen.
                                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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