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[pwca]

Can you have too much Radio 4?

I apologise for those you without access to Radio 4 as you will miss the humour of the conversation. I also have to apologising for being condescending and feeling sorry that you do not have access to Radio 4.

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[gbsteve]

When I'm at my PC I almost always have iPlayer on. At the moment I'm listening to Space Hacks, The Man who was Thursday (excellently read by Geoffrey Palmer), some cop thing about a murder in the British Library, A Series of Psychotic Episodes, Round the Horne, Hancock's Half-hour ...

[pwca]

The cop thing would be "Jule Enfield Investigates..."

We do not have net access at work as it is believed that it would lead to distractions. And the bandwidth of forty computers all tuned to the radio station of their choice would be horrendous. Not that I would not mind having access, of course.

Instead I take an MP3 player with an FM radio to work to listen to Radio 4 most of the day and a DAB to switch over to BBC7 for some of the crime and comedy. Listening to both gives me something to look forward to and more often than not a sense of narrative structure that my day otherwise lacks...

I too have been listening to Jule Enfield Investigates..., as well as JAM, Hancock's Half Hour, Yes Minister, the various Agatha Christie stories, the new Cabin Pressure, and the superlative America, Empire of Liberty.

[gbsteve]

That would be Julie Enfield Investigates. The previous one about, The Net and The Canal was quite fun, although pretty daft. And this one seems equally daft, what with mummies and amulets and several kinds of deadly poison. But daft in a good Agatha Christie kind of way.

[pwca]

I have heard them all before, but they are very listenable. Need to catch up with the final episodes of the canal story before moving on to the Mummies.

[And the spelling error is a keyboard miss.]

[wombattery]

Pleading bandwidth limitations, but obviously actually carrying out a plot of cruelty and sinister corporate mind control, my employer blocks most streaming media sites, which means I can't get much of anything from the BBC beyond a few podcasts downloaded from home, when I remember it. Which is rarely, given my habitual business there. Needless to say, this has earned them an early spot against the wall come the revolution.