Ah! I am especially interested in this post, as I have just invested in a DAB radio! It is not set up yet, but soon... I would like to know what are the recommended listens. So far all I remember from my last radio attempt before it broke was developing a fondness for the Mike Harding show on r2. I listened Again to a bit of Women's Hour, which was talking about LADIES flying AEROPLANES, which was fine...
Hmm. I don't listen to as much different stuff as I used to, but Radio 4 is quite good at random surprisingly interesting programmes which will nudge me out of a funk. I listened to a book review programme one Friday night and ended up buying all the books they talked about. The Last Word is good (an obituary programme - they did a nice one about Kirsty MacColl last week), and anything where Eddie Mair does anything at all. On Radio 2 I recommend Sounds Of The Sixties and Pick Of The Pops, and the folk programme of course (actually I like Steve Wright In The Afternoon these days too, Gawd help me...)
But they have left me with nothing to listen to in the evenings if I'm doing the cooking! Tut!
It is too bad you didn't live over here 15 years ago when Mark Radcliffe had a really good evening programme and wasn't such a grumpy old man, but they do still play some excellent stuff. (Everything was better when I was young, is basically what I'm saying here - perhaps I am also a grumpy old man...)
Fortunately one of the things I can still do here is listen to radio on the iPlayer. It's fascinating trying to work out what's going on on Dutch telly or radio, but still a bit like hard work for now.
Consequently, Ian McMillan! I was listening to his programme about sod-casting the other week, as in people playing music out loud on phones in public, and thinking I hadn't heard anyone doing it in ages, and then the next day there were some lads in the supermarket doing it. I can also recommend, if you're iPlayering, The I Love You Bridge and Ben Goldacre's thing about the power of placebos.
I enjoyed your radio reviews while you were packing up your old house, hence doing my own! I wish the iPlayer had existed when I lived in Denmark, I had to make do with crackly LW Radio 4 and wasn't that interested in Test Match Special...
Then they went to lunch, but afterwards, he had forgotten how it went.
Probably would have been a more interesting anecdote if they'd told the full story. Roger Taylor was able to recall it by jumping in his time machine, going to the future and nicking the bassline to "Ice Ice Baby" (or whatever it's called). On the way back, he met Flash Gordon and the rest is history.
I'm going to Denmark on 29th September. A place called Odense. I'm hoping to meet Hans Christian Anderson. Knowing my luck, he'll probably die during the next three weeks now...
Odense!!! I lived there for three years! I can tell you everything you could possibly want to know about it! If you don't mind all my information being ten years out of date! (Except "Where is a good place to stay", I'm afraid.)
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It is too bad you didn't live over here 15 years ago when Mark Radcliffe had a really good evening programme and wasn't such a grumpy old man, but they do still play some excellent stuff. (Everything was better when I was young, is basically what I'm saying here - perhaps I am also a grumpy old man...)
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Compo was a bit creeepy
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- I have the iPlayer for radio so I can listen to the things of which you speak (Sounds of the Sixties is great).
- You have Made Everything OK today. Please do it again tomorrow :)
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Consequently, Ian McMillan! I was listening to his programme about sod-casting the other week, as in people playing music out loud on phones in public, and thinking I hadn't heard anyone doing it in ages, and then the next day there were some lads in the supermarket doing it. I can also recommend, if you're iPlayering, The I Love You Bridge and Ben Goldacre's thing about the power of placebos.
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Probably would have been a more interesting anecdote if they'd told the full story. Roger Taylor was able to recall it by jumping in his time machine, going to the future and nicking the bassline to "Ice Ice Baby" (or whatever it's called). On the way back, he met Flash Gordon and the rest is history.
I'm going to Denmark on 29th September. A place called Odense. I'm hoping to meet Hans Christian Anderson. Knowing my luck, he'll probably die during the next three weeks now...
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