I've enjoyed the first two episodes of Kirsty Wark's four-parter for BBC Radio 4 - 'Written in Scotland' - about the relationship Scottish writers have had down through the centuries with the Country.
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Speaking as someone who was seriously freaked out by watching the film "The Road" when somehow it was linked to my offspring's 6th form curriculum, I shut those awful images away into an increasingly distant compartment of my awareness and just paid a bit more attention to lessening my impact on the planet (but events are showing me I will have to do ever more, and even, for goodness sake, be inconvenienced!).Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
I visit once or twice a week, a group transplanted from Yahoo Groups, attracting largely Americans, who turn out to be rural homesteaders (interestingly many of them have left the USA) or are homesteaders manqueÌ’. So fairly individualist types, who disdain city living, visit the town when necessary, etc. No dissenting voices to anti-vax ethos (apparently we who have been vaccinated are the evil ones - we can carry the infection and give it to them!). The wholesale vax population have succumbed to a plan to weaken and hasten the death of millions, because of health problems amongst the unthinking masses - a planned genocide by the cabal of big pharma, big business, big government etc. Lots of invites to You Tubes (actually fringe sites, most have been blocked on YT) - which I've never taken up (my poor, vax'ed life is too short for that). So I get the general flavour, a startling example of group think where converse views cannot be aired. Sort of interesting, in a macabre and dispiriting way. And also, there is the occasional post on the original (entirely unrelated) theme which caused me to join the Yahoo group - and where the members have knowledge and insights to share......
They are also anti George Soros, Bill Gates etc and talk about their food and other supplies and how things would go when widespread unrest breaks out. They don't talk about violence, but having enough food and resources to share with neighbours so its not full blown Prepping (not, anyway, so far as I know). Although they are believers that the election was stolen from Trump and expected a military coup on the eve of Biden's inauguration, they look from afar and of course, preserve post event silence about their dire predictions.
I occasionally think I/we here in the Home Counties are woefully unprepared. Mrs CS has no truck with holding stocks of food and we have operated the usual "just in time+" approach - well, in lockdown with planned buying on her weekly trips (at opening time) to the local supermarket. We couldn't get registered for home delivery, and we have to thank the supermarket staff (the farmers, wholesalers and truckers etc) for their efforts as we never went without anything we needed or wanted.
However, to address your question (after considerable digression) - I just enjoy in particular Sue Johnston's performance,but also the writing and the general humour of the programme. Concrete thoughts about the end of the world are locked away and not for my generation (but as to my children's..............).Comment
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This week's Word of Mouth on R4 was rather interesting, Why is English so Weird. It discussed how our somewhat mongrel language came about, and gave some historical reasons for our irregular spellings, pronunciations, past tenses and much else. New to me was the fact that early printing technology relied on Dutch typesetters who brought their own phonetics to English spelling...which wasn't 'fixed' anyway.
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Tonight's Dead Ringers has a right royal blooper. They claimed that Pritti Patel's parents were from India.Originally posted by LMcD View PostI'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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Every schoolboy knows" that they escaped here from Idi Amin's Uganda.Comment
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(This is a review of a comedy show on the radio, that's all. It's not really intended to form the basis of a political or sociological discourse, but people are of course free to treat it as such if they wish
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'Party's Over'. A smart new comedy series on Radio 4/Radio 4 Extra/Sounds that elegantly skewers a range of targets. Every time I hear Miles Jupp, I wish once again that they'd make another series of 'Rev'.Comment
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By chance, and insomnia, I heard this very affecting World Service programme about Hiroshima Survivors. It's 76 years since the A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945.Comment
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Hislop and the emergence of Northumbria / 'northern-ness'Comment
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Sorry LMcD, like much of the "comedy writing" by the BBC's more recent intake it feels terribly contrived and forced to me; I shall not be listening to it any more.Originally posted by LMcD View Post(This is a review of a comedy show on the radio, that's all. It's not really intended to form the basis of a political or sociological discourse, but people are of course free to treat it as such if they wish).
'Party's Over'. A smart new comedy series on Radio 4/Radio 4 Extra/Sounds that elegantly skewers a range of targets. Every time I hear Miles Jupp, I wish once again that they'd make another series of 'Rev'.Comment
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No, that did not start until 12:18. The link should have read https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ykpj.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostComment
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Humour is so personal. As far as I'm concerned, Miles Jupp's new comedy vehicle is a turkey, using the comedy formula used over decades...... Along with the zoomed in laughter, which I'm now intolerant of.
OTOH I gave a listen to Dad's Army radio version and the characterisation and comedy still stands up so well, for me. (I have to concede, of course the characters are so familiar from the TV screenings.Comment
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Mention of which draws my attention to this item, about to come on Radio 4:Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
4p, - Word of Mouth
5/7 Accent Bias
Michael Rosen asks Devyani Sharma - professor of sociolinguistics - about the latest research into accent bias in Britain. Why do certain accents lead people to draw conclusions about the speaker?
Search me pal.Comment
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