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Do you listen to Radio 4?

Do you listen to Radio 4?

  • Yes, every day

    Votes: 75 53.6%

  • Yes, occasionally

    Votes: 44 31.4%

  • I tried, but no

    Votes: 6 4.3%

  • No.

    Votes: 12 8.6%

  • Don't fucking patronise me.

    Votes: 3 2.1%
  • Total voters
    140
The radio 4 archive is a thing of great beauty.

I do often wish they'd put some of the factual programming on other stations up on it though.
 
Yep, every single day.
Even so sad as to take our wireless with us when we stay with friends/family or go camping :)

Radio 4 gets the most play
Radio 7 gets the second most
Resonance and XFM are the others
 
Sometimes there can be something interesting on, but I find it quite hit and miss. Some of the radio dramas are truly awful (especially First Writes kind of ones), but then some are good. And I don't find the comedy on it very funny, unless they're taking the piss out of John Humphrys.

But mostly this:

littlebabyjesus said:
But the talky stuff on Radio 3 is generally better.
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I listen to Today without fail every morning, can't bear anything else.

Did anyone hear the minister chappy being interviewed about FE Colleges and their re-building funding? He was coughing and *aheming* and umming and not saying anything so hard that it was making me lol. I think he got let off fucking lightly for politicianising his way out of saying that colleges wouldn't be allowed to go bust because of LEA bad planning :mad:

Anyway - Radio 4 I loves it.
 
Not as much as I'd like to these days. The afternoon play is usually worth a listen, and I was a sucker for Home Truths but I haven't listened to it since John Peel died.
 
Been listening to World Service more and Radio 4 less these days, not sure why - been switching between the two in the morning, whenever I'm in the kitchen and at bedtime.

My son listens to the stories in the morning on 7, they're reading Matilda this week, last week it was the BFG :)
 
BoatieBird said:
Not as much as I'd like to these days. The afternoon play is usually worth a listen.
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That's how I started listening to Radio 4, I used to clean houses many years ago and one of the ladies used work for used to put the radio on when I was cleaning the kitchen - with either Woman's hour or afternoon play. I think that was a little gift she gave me :)
 
Thinking about it, Radio 4 is a fair bit less dumbed-down than it was - I grew up with a lot of middle-brow tosh - "My Music", "Petticoat Line", "Does The Team Think ?" etc ... but it is hardly ever a "must listen" these days - except for "The News Quiz" ... and once in a while I brave "The Moral Maze" for my fix of "Mad Mel" ...

I can't believe anyone actually listens to "The Clitheroe Kid" and "The Navy Lark" on BBC7 :eek:
 
I listen to it when I'm in my car. The only other options are Radios 1, 2, 3 or local station 2 ten FM. I can't bear the music on radio 1 or 2 ten, Terry Wogan/Steve Wright/Chris Evans on R2 really annoy me and I don't like classical music enough to listen to 3. I occasionaly listen to 5 live but its way too sensationalist for my liking and AM radio is horrible to listen to.

If there is cricket on, then I always listen to Radio 4 LW for Test Match Special.

Can I just also mention that the Now Show is the most annoyingly unfunny comedy show in the world.
 
5t3IIa said:
Did anyone hear the minister chappy being interviewed about FE Colleges and their re-building funding? He was coughing and *aheming* and umming and not saying anything so hard that it was making me lol. I think he got let off fucking lightly for politicianising his way out of saying that colleges wouldn't be allowed to go bust because of LEA bad planning :mad:
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it was fucking hilarious. malcolm will murder him when he gets back to the office...
 
I would listen to music radio if it wasn't so shite.

As a result I am a toal r4 listener - in fact its about the only interesting input I have these days... sigh..

It was great listening to that guy who sounded about 14 squirming on the Today Show. John Humphries was going easy on him was probably ruder than giving him a proper savaging!
 
Nope, never listen to it. Never really listen to the radio to be honest. Mrs Filter has Capital on in the shower in the morning.
 
5t3IIa said:
Did anyone hear the minister chappy being interviewed about FE Colleges and their re-building funding? He was coughing and *aheming* and umming and not saying anything so hard that it was making me lol. I think he got let off fucking lightly for politicianising his way out of saying that colleges wouldn't be allowed to go bust because of LEA bad planning :mad:

Anyway - Radio 4 I loves it.
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Oh my god, yes I heard that :D :mad: I'm not sure who that minister was but in my head I was picturing the junior minister from The Thick of It who goes to pieces on newsnight:

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It was such embarassingly transparent blame dodging - Cameron mentions it in PMQs, argh - panic, quick let's stick a fall-guy on Today, announce a review, blame it on the LSC (heck they're going to be renamed soon anyway).

grrr :rolleyes:
 
beeboo said:
Oh my god, yes I heard that :D :mad: I'm not sure who that minister was but in my head I was picturing the junior minister from The Thick of It who goes to pieces on newsnight:

thick_char2_swain.jpg


It was such embarassingly transparent blame dodging - Cameron mentions it in PMQs, argh - panic, quick let's stick a fall-guy on Today, announce a review, blame it on the LSC (heck they're going to be renamed soon anyway).

grrr :rolleyes:
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Humphrys just sounded weary really. He got half a dig in comparing the propping up of failed banks to further education colleges but his heart didn't seem in it.

Is it his inate gentlemanliness that stops his savaging all these fools laid before him? His own politicianising to keep his job?
 
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