Speech Radio You Have Listened To Lately

[LMcD]

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.

Actually, I am aware of the perils of recommending any comedy programme - on radio or TV!
I've never found 'Dad's Army' funny, and for me the recent movie was a bit of a laugh-free zone for quite long periods.

[Cockney Sparrow]

This sort of divide explains how the BBC defends any programme or decision. "Well, we have as many people liking it as are objecting........".
We're all different.

I wouldn't expect to much enjoy the recent film of Dad's Army but I haven't even read any reviews, so I shouldn't, I suppose, comment.

[Cockney Sparrow]

Fire at Transmitter serving N. Yorkshire. As I discovered when no Freeview on our B&B television. This page gives a link to a work around for FM radio, depending on location. TV freeview (for the Radio stream) is still down this morning (unsurprisingly).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/work...re-and-teesideis

[johncorrigan]

The Dad I knew disappeared as dementia took away all the attributes that made him who he was; and then took the shell too. I'm of an age where I find myself investigating those senior moments looking for something more serious, and have friends who seek solace in saying 'oh, we do that too! Haha!'.

Last night's 'Archive on 4 - Jonathan Miller: Lost Memories' was a most interesting programme where Miller's son, William, followed his father's fascination with the memory and the brain. This was a programme that, for me, got better and more fascinating as it went on, as friends of Miller talked about the loss of this amazing mind.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000yt7f

[antongould]

The Dad I knew disappeared as dementia took away all the attributes that made him who he was; and then took the shell too. I'm of an age where I find myself investigating those senior moments looking for something more serious, and have friends who seek solace in saying 'oh, we do that too! Haha!'.

Last night's 'Archive on 4 - Jonathan Miller: Lost Memories' was a most interesting programme where Miller's son, William, followed his father's fascination with the memory and the brain. This was a programme that, for me, got better and more fascinating as it went on, as friends of Miller talked about the loss of this amazing mind.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000yt7f

Thanks for this jc …….

[Serial_Apologist]

The Dad I knew disappeared as dementia took away all the attributes that made him who he was; and then took the shell too. I'm of an age where I find myself investigating those senior moments looking for something more serious, and have friends who seek solace in saying 'oh, we do that too! Haha!'.

Last night's 'Archive on 4 - Jonathan Miller: Lost Memories' was a most interesting programme where Miller's son, William, followed his father's fascination with the memory and the brain. This was a programme that, for me, got better and more fascinating as it went on, as friends of Miller talked about the loss of this amazing mind.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000yt7f

I forgot to listen to this last night even though I'd marked it up in RT! Some who claim to know have been urging us at our age to keep mentally active and challenged. Yet Iris Murdock and Jonathan Miller hardly stopped being either in their later years, which for me doesn't bode particularly well, my mother having succumbed to Alzheimers at the age of 80, her symptoms having seriously begun about four years before that, which is now my own age.

[johncorrigan]

I forgot to listen to this last night even though I'd marked it up in RT! Some who claim to know have been urging us at our age to keep mentally active and challenged. Yet Iris Murdock and Jonathan Miller hardly stopped being either in their later years, which for me doesn't bode particularly well, my mother having succumbed to Alzheimers at the age of 80, her symptoms having seriously begun about four years before that, which is now my own age.

Towards the end of the programme, S_A, they talked about recent research about staying fit, following a reasonable diet, not smoking and including looking after your hearing, as important in staving off the advance of Alzheimer's. There was also a comment that Miller's great mind hid the advance of the disease from those around him. But there was an incredible bit where he stopped talking about Cezanne, because he had no idea who Cezanne was. I loved the things about the different types of memory in this programme. I am going to try to remember to listen to the it again.

[Bryn]

From our own correspondent

Currently nearing its end, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm

Some very interesting analysis of the fall and rise of the Taliban, etc.

[Forget It (U2079353)]

Charles Paris - A Deadly Habit coming up Friday 11:30 BBC Radio 4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000z78w

[antongould]

Charles Paris - A Deadly Habit coming up Friday 11:30 BBC Radio 4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000z78w

Excellent…..

[gradus]

On R4 9am this morning a half hour programme on performing Brahms first pf conc with Stephen Hough, piano technicians, Brahms and Clara, quite a lot packed in to : 'How to Play'
Next week Mark Elder/Halle on the Enigma Vars, not to be missed

[DracoM]

Yes - agreed. Good listening

[Cockney Sparrow]

Excellent…..

Just stopped laughing (I may be easily pleased) - sounds like a good one.

I checked its a new programme and see that Jeremy Front is the writer "based on" Simon Brett's stories......

[Nick Armstrong]

Excellent…..

Truly

[Nick Armstrong]

Still 10 days to catch the re-run of season 2 of the brilliant High Table, Lower Orders on Radio 4 Extra:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00h8qls