Speech Radio You Have Listened To Lately

[eighthobstruction]

Found this morning's 'Start the Week' with Andrew Marr interviewing Yuval Noah Harari very interesting indeed...and a bit scary too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000m7b

Yes I'll put it up as a proper thread topic....the rise of the algarithm rich +++

[ardcarp]

Book of the Week is Erebus, written and read (very well) by Michael Palin. It's about Franklin's expedition to find the Northwest Passage...from which he, his crew and his sister ship never returned.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000m7f

Quite amused that today's announcer called it 'Eurobus'.

[DracoM]

Am increasingly listening to BBC World Service.
Informative, and a sobering corrective to what we hear in UK.

[LMcD]

Am increasingly listening to BBC World Service.
Informative, and a sobering corrective to what we hear in UK.

I'm currently enjoying Toby Jones reading from Philip Ziegler's biography of Laurence Olivier on Radio 4 Extra. Episodes 1-3 are on the iPlayer, the remaining 2 will be broadcast at 2.45 p.m. today and tomorrow.

[Nick Armstrong]

It's A Fair Cop with former police office Alfie Moore https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bgrxvk is frequently hilarious...

[LMcD]

I'm currently enjoying listening to Michael Palin reading from his new book 'Erebus' - the story of Sir John Franklin's doomed expedition. Radio 4's Book Of The Week last week, it's now available on the iPlayer as separate episodes and also as a 70-minute omnibus.
Sorry, I didn't spot #32!

[johncorrigan]

As a bit of a fan of Ursula K Le Guin, I've been really enjoying the re-runs of 'Earthsea' on 4 extra. Like the books, elegantly told and leaving lots to the imagination. I like the incidental music too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05sz766

[Lat-Literal]

BBC4 Extra - Puzzle Panel

Incredibly - as late as 1998.

How on earth did this one ever slip through the net?

It makes Round Britain Quiz sound like Family Fortunes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069ytl1

[Richard Tarleton]

Not sure if Desert Island Discs counts as speech radio - I don't usually listen beyond the first two minutes but found myself hooked by Dr Venki Ramakrishnan this morning, and his excellently eclectic choice of music - Johnny Cash, music from N&S India, Bach Chaconne (Milstein), Grosse Fugue (Tacacs), that Puccini from Room with a View.....

But....isn't it about time they dropped the "Bible" as a given? It sounded like a cultural faux pas. He dealt with it with great skill and courtesy, I thought.

[Serial_Apologist]

Not sure if Desert Island Discs counts as speech radio - I don't usually listen beyond the first two minutes but found myself hooked by Dr Venki Ramakrishnan this morning, and his excellently eclectic choice of music - Johnny Cash, music from N&S India, Bach Chaconne (Milstein), Grosse Fugue (Tacacs), that Puccini from Room with a View.....

But....isn't it about time they dropped the "Bible" as a given? It sounded like a cultural faux pas. He dealt with it with great skill and courtesy, I thought.

I often wonder if the originators of DID visualised the island as some long forgotten outpost of the Empire - all very Freudian, hence the tail-ending biblical sine qua non.

[DracoM]

R4X: 'Fatherland' / Robert Harris. 5 progs being repeated.
The inimitable Anton Lesser in this chilling sort-of post 2WW thriller.
Brilliant.

[johncorrigan]

R4X: 'Fatherland' / Robert Harris. 5 progs being repeated.
The inimitable Anton Lesser in this chilling sort-of post 2WW thriller.
Brilliant.

Thanks for pointing this out, Draco. I'm very much enjoying it. Anton has a very good way with a Zippo lighter, which I often think he uses to great aplomb in Endeavour, and I hear it very effectively used in Fatherland too...a trademark! Very atmospheric!

[antongould]

R4X: 'Fatherland' / Robert Harris. 5 progs being repeated.
The inimitable Anton Lesser in this chilling sort-of post 2WW thriller.
Brilliant.

It is indeed brilliant IMVVHO ......

[LMcD]

I realize that recommending anything comedic is risky, and a lot of Radio 4's 'comedy' programmes leave me cold, but I'm happy to report that the 1st episode of the 4th season of 'The Cold Swedish Winter' is as sharp-edgely charming as ever.

[DracoM]

BBC World Service and a pretty chilling examination of money-laundering.