Who listens to Radio 4?

EKE_38BPM

rjsterry wrote:

Interesting.....

Think I'll go for Old Street.

Smoove move. I see your Old Street and I'll raise you a Bond Street.

notsoblue

EKE_38BPM wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Interesting.....

Think I'll go for Old Street.

Smoove move. I see your Old Street and I'll raise you a Bond Street.

By the skin of your teeth. You're lucky we're not playing the FUC revision of the SCR ruleset (has that left the RFC stage yet btw?).

Well I guess its going to have to be Bishopsgate.

owenlars

By the application of the Kandensky convention allied to the Schmidt protocol and under the new Barry Cryer regulation

*************** Mornington Crescent**********************

secretsam

Q quick overview:

Radio 1: The quality of music makes me vomit - even the so-called alternative bands are same-old-same-old, and the DJs are excessively interested in the sound of their own voices. Nein Danke.

R2: I used to love listening to Wogan in the morning, genuinely funny. Chris Evans sets my teeth on edge to never really listen to it.

R3: no idea. Fusty classical music listened to by people who think that music should be "challenging" and ideallly written over 120 years ago on a harpsichord. Next.

R4: I'll dip in, I like the news and some of the comedy has me in stitches, but other bits are so far up their own sphincter you can only see the feet poking out

R5: sadly, now we are talking - I'm a football fan so this is nirvana, moderately-intelligent news and plenty of the beautiful game. Get in.

R6-99 or whatever: we've only got a digital radio in the kitchen so don't really engage with them.

All local and commercial stations (bar XFM, sometimes): utter cack.

I feel so much better now I've had a rant!!!!!

rjsterry

owenlars wrote:

By the application of the Kandensky convention allied to the Schmidt protocol and under the new Barry Cryer regulation

*************** Mornington Crescent**********************

Nicely done, sir! Caught pootling and no mistake.

Jay dubbleU

owenlars wrote:

By the application of the Kandensky convention allied to the Schmidt protocol and under the new Barry Cryer regulation

*************** Mornington Crescent**********************

Chapeau sir!

EKE_38BPM

rjsterry wrote:

owenlars wrote:

By the application of the Kandensky convention allied to the Schmidt protocol and under the new Barry Cryer regulation

*************** Mornington Crescent**********************

Nicely done, sir! Caught pootling and no mistake.

Played like a pro.

jimmypippa

cjcp wrote:

Not all the time, but tuning into the Today show more and occasionally catch some comedy shows. Twice in the last week I've listened to something like "Farming Weekly" pre-6am while on the turbo. Sheer WTH curiosity prevented me changing channels!

So, EKE, you need to add another section to your poll.

That's what I listen to every morning - I'm out the door at 6.

It used to be more WTH, when it was twice as long and spent 15-mins giving spot prices for pork futures etc...

symo

Radio 4 for the today programme and comedy I also love PM on Fridays.
Radio 6 for wide range of good tunes.

Graculus

Yes, I have it on pretty much constantly,and have done since I was a student (a long, long time ago).

Happened to catch this on the school run on Wednesday too. Laurie Taylor talking about the bike in society, first part of the programme.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00y2sj7/Thinking_Allowed_02_02_2011

shouldbeinbed

4 5 6 & 7. TV isn't the reason I pay my licence

bunter

4 & 6 for me.

Today, News Quiz, Shipping Forecast, Sailing By... mmm

Bring back Adam & Joe.

jimmypippa

bunter wrote:

Sailing By... mmm

I miss the UK theme in the morning.

My radio used to wake me to this and I knew I had to turn it off before it started playing Rule Britannia, or my wife got annoyed... if it got to What shall we do with the drunken sailor it was annoying.

It certainly used to wake me up (and mess with my head). I think my wife is happier that she isn't woken to that anymore.

Actually waking up to the World Service and this was also quite "bracing", and the phrase at the end "This ...Is.. London" seems gloriously outdated.

I also knew it was a long day if I heard both the morning theme, and sailing by.

cjcp

jimmypippa wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Not all the time, but tuning into the Today show more and occasionally catch some comedy shows. Twice in the last week I've listened to something like "Farming Weekly" pre-6am while on the turbo. Sheer WTH curiosity prevented me changing channels!

So, EKE, you need to add another section to your poll.

That's what I listen to every morning - I'm out the door at 6.

It used to be more WTH, when it was twice as long and spent 15-mins giving spot prices for pork futures etc...

deptfordmarmoset

bunter wrote:

4 & 6 for me.

Today, News Quiz, Shipping Forecast, Sailing By... mmm

Bring back Adam & Joe.

Sailing By is probably one of those tunes that splits the audience in two. In my book, it's a god-awful tune, played abysmally, and its only saving grace is the way the producer tried to rescue the dirge by imprisoning a couple of flute players in an echo chamber until they eventually got their parts right. Yet others simply love it.

And that unnecessarily militaristic arrangement of God Save the Queen isn't much better either.

EKE_38BPM

I do love the shipping forecast, especially in bad weather. I lie in my nice, warm bed and imagine fishermen on trawlers getting thrown about. My bed instantly feels warmer and more comfortable. I then fall asleep in no time!

MrChuck

My GF loves it but most of the time it just winds me up. Smug, inward-looking, self-important. Desert Island Discs fawning over politicians, John Humphries makes me grind my teeth and don't get me started on the Archers.

That said there is the odd good snippet and I did hear a play on there once I quite liked but generally, no.

Pep

Best radio I found in the last 37 years searching in 3 different countries.

Today
The food program
The World at 1:00 o'clock
Just a minute
The incredible truth
Moneybox
Gardener's time
The bottom line
The Archers

Best radio channel

CiB

jimmypippa wrote:

bunter wrote:

Sailing By... mmm

I miss the UK theme in the morning.

I've got the last one recorded on Mini-Disc. Trouble is I haven't got a working MD player now, not since the bag-full-of-gadgets / bottle-of-water-with-loose-top incident in Cyprus a few years ago. MD, video camera, iPod. Knacked, every one of them.

EKE_38BPM

One thing I really love about Radio 4 is the randomness of some of the programmes.

A few weeks ago there was a spoken word poet on Women's Hour (which is only really 42 minutes long) and the poet performed one of her poems over the backing of a Taskforce (underground UK hip-hop track).

You won't hear that anywhere else.

NGale

I generally set my alarm to around 5am....fall asleep at about 5:25am when the Shipping forecast comes on

I am terrible at that time of the morning, not because I can't get up, but because as a child if I had a restless nights sleep my mother would put radio 4 on at the time of the shipping forecast as is was the only means to get me to sleep. To this day there is still something restful and poetic to it.

I am going to be screwed if I am on the early watch on TS Royalist this year and have to listen to the Shipping forecast :shock:

I stopped listening to radio 2 at the start of Janurary. Just the very thought of having my alarm going off to the sound of Vanessa Feltz makes me want to punch something repeatdly and violently...Jake would be in the line of fire followed by Nelson the Cat. I don't think either would like it to be honest.

I have as a result got into listening to the Today Programme, PM, The News Quiz, Just a Minute and even The Archers (that theme tune should be the national anthem!! ) and since the announcement of Radcliffe and Marconi moving to Radio 6 Music, I have no reason to go back to Radio 2 in the immediate future.

NGale

Oh and I will point out that I was so disgusted that my SEA Cadets didn't know what the shipping forecast was (I will say that again SEA CADETS!!!!) that I may have let a swear word slip out in front of minors :oops:

Honestly I was actually socked they didn't know what the shipping forecast was. :shock: :shock: :shock:

Fireblade96

R4, all the way!
I started listening to it when I first went to work in Paris - I specially bought a multi-band radio so I could still get an English-language station on LW !
Got attached to it so the Today programme has been my morning listening ever since. When living in the States, NPR came close but not the same.
I've recently acquired a DAB radio and Planet Rock is great for cooking to...but the rest of the time it's R4. It's what I pay my TV licence for.