The A Train Radio feature

[Guest]

You Must Take the A Train, another of those little radio4 gems: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01k2f7s

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

thanks grippie worth a thread to itself ....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

apologies here is intended location ...now you can lookit at some pictures

[grippie]

Done. (we were well & truly done!)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Done. (we were well & truly done!)

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[handsomefortune]

thanks grippie, twas a gem, an interesting fleeting glimpse of A train passengers over the years.

did anyone else notice that the dvd seller on the A train took his sales technique 'real serious'....emulating mgm censorship & marketing depts,

You Must Take the A Train

i listened, enjoyed, then sensed a familiar pressure combined with impotence .....i MUST take the A train - or it will close............ what? despite my not living in NY! it struck me as a slightly odd approach to take as far as a programme ending goes. as, to this day, the A train is apparently ram 24/7...according to those featured earlier in the same programme, and the presenter himself, (who apparently suffers car sickness so prefers the train).

it reminded me a little of robert crumb's response to the urgent 1950s instruction that 'you must chew your food 78 times before swallowing'. as part of a US public service announcement, complete with a b/w x ray film of a human skeleton masticating ....and finally swallowing a grey lump that you can see traveling downward on its amazing journey of the digestive system .... yet, eating is something we all normally do, but without counting, or giving a second thought. likewise, people use the A train to get from A-B ... and as a woman passenger expressed so well, 'the A train is a positive leveler, in terms of integration of all peoples'....(well, 99% of them anyhew)!

[handsomefortune]

i'm experiencing technical problems with your #3 too calum da jazbo!

[johncorrigan]

You Must Take the A Train, another of those little radio4 gems: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01k2f7s

Thanks for posting that grippie. Ashamed to say I'd never thought about what the A Train was - only knew the tune. I really like Gopnik's presentation style - I've heard two or three things by him and he's always interesting. If one day I ever manage to get to NY I'll be taking a ride on that there train - you're right - one of those little radio4 gems.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

apologies

[johncorrigan]

apologies

Terrific - great accompaniment - thanks Calum.

[grippie]

Originally Posted by grippie
Done. (we were well & truly done!)
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Gawd knows what I was replying to culum

must be going? NUTS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

nah man forgetful mebbe but NUTS nah .............