Speech Radio You Have Listened To Lately

[vinteuil]

Loved the St Brendan v Titanic in the Ulster Halls reference. Still laughing.

... "didn't go down well in the Ulster Hall!"

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[Serial_Apologist]

... yes, he's a great addition. Lovely timing - "we used to have lovely monasteries..."

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It's always at its best (imv) when local lad Mark Steele is on the panel.

[johncorrigan]

It's always at its best (imv) when local lad Mark Steele is on the panel.

The master of the perpendicular running joke (imv), S_A.

[johncorrigan]

It's always at its best (imv) when local lad Mark Steele is on the panel.

If you fancy an extra dose of MS, S_A, I just heard him on 'Room 101' on 4 Extra with Paul Merton. I laughed a lot - terrific double act.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001mt78?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

[smittims]

Woman's Hour on Wednesday (11 Sept) had me cheering Carol Vorderman's interview, about her campaign against injustice, inequality, 'Partygate' ,the House of Lords,,etc.

How refreshing to hear someone speak out plainly without hedging about the subject in weasel words. Strongly recommended.

[Serial_Apologist]

If you fancy an extra dose of MS, S_A, I just heard him on 'Room 101' on 4 Extra with Paul Merton. I laughed a lot - terrific double act.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0...n=share-mobile

Great! Thanks John - I missed that particular episode.

[LMcD]

This week, The Essay, presented by Geoffrey Colman, has brought us 'Five Kinds of Amadeus'. Vanessa Mae, Jane Glover, Patrick Mackie, Mark Anthony Turnage and Simon Callow discuss the film's impact and legacy 40 years after its release. Colman concludes that Mozart's music is the real central character in the film.

[Cockney Sparrow]

Emily Anderson – mostly her war work, but including part of a Denis Stevens interview with her on her translation of the letters of Mozart and Beethoven. As it happens, both of them code breakers.
(The interview was in “Talking about Music” and is framed by “John Amis saying goodbye from London” – as we are currently having a bit on a reminiscence trip of programmes of yesteryear…)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hm0qrt

[johncorrigan]

I thought Andrew O'Hagan's series of essays on Radio 4 this week, about various aspects of Friendship, were at times moving, thought-provoking, and very entertaining.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m0023npk?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

[smittims]

I was delighted by Dead girls telll no tales, on Radio 4 yesterday afternoon. A play based on the sacking of Ysanne Churchman and the 'death' of Grace Archer in The Archers. I think this was the first time I heard it admitted on the BBC that the real reason Grace Archer was written-out was because Churchman was demading equal pay, which would have bust the budget. I never believed the notion that it was done deliberately to spoil ITV's opening night. That was never credible.

[smittims]

Next Sunday's Sunday Feature on Radio 3 (17 November) may be of interest , about the current difficulties facing Cathedral Choirs

[johncorrigan]

'Dead Ringers' on BBC Radio 4 yesterday finished with Trump singing his version of 'Tomorrow Belongs to Me'...kinda chilling.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0...n=share-mobile

[Serial_Apologist]

'Dead Ringers' on BBC Radio 4 yesterday finished with Trump singing his version of 'Tomorrow Belongs to Me'...kinda chilling.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0...n=share-mobile

Regarding the terrifying let alone farcical each day in Trumpian developments Stateside, yesterday's utterly brilliant edition truly took satirisation to a new level; my throat was sore and my sides aching by the end of it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0024x4y

[LMcD]

'Dead Ringers' on BBC Radio 4 yesterday finished with Trump singing his version of 'Tomorrow Belongs to Me'...kinda chilling.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0...n=share-mobile

I didn't think anything could be scarier than the performance of that song in the film of 'Cabaret' - until now...

[Serial_Apologist]

I didn't think anything could be scarier than the performance of that song in the film of 'Cabaret' - until now...

I must go back and listen to that edition!