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Things that are shit about Radio 4

I've always had a problem with waking up to the sounds of presenters and guests or guests and other guests arguing - I find it deeply stressful in the morning!

We refer to R4 in our household as 'the murmles', as it basically has two settings. A gentle 'Murmle murmle murmle' and an aggressive 'Murmle! Murmle! Murmle! Harrumph!' It's an essential part of the house, nonetheless.
 
Cloo said:
I've always had a problem with waking up to the sounds of presenters and guests or guests and other guests arguing - I find it deeply stressful in the morning!

We refer to R4 in our household as 'the murmles', as it basically has two settings. A gentle 'Murmle murmle murmle' and an aggressive 'Murmle! Murmle! Murmle! Harrumph!' It's an essential part of the house, nonetheless.
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Like the roof in many ways.
 
bi0boy said:
The drama, the theme tune, thought for the day.
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Agreed about the theme tune and "Sailing By" ..

I find "Thought for the day" to be quite harmless these days - whenever it isn't Anne Atkins. It used to coincide with my morning dump.

I grew up with Radio 4 Drama - back in the 70s - "The Day Of The Triffids" had a great effect on me - as did "Lost Horizons" and "Chief Inspector West" ...

I've got out of the habit recently .. I've listened to repeats of "Baldi" several times on BBC7 ....

Comedy has indeed become rather poor when you think back to "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" et al.

Well worth checking for repeats of "Old Harry's Game" on 7 - that's rather good ...
 
anyone remember this?

Mark and Lard said:
Rabbi: Just the other day, well it was 3 years ago actually, while I was taking a sabbatical in Spain, which is a holiday Mark, I was approached by a man with a Chimpanzee and I thought, "My luck`s in!" Well I was disappointed but the man offered to take my picture with the Chimpanzee for 300 percetas and I thought "Yes this is very like life Mark".

Mark: Thought it might be.

R: Yes, man and beast working together in harmony and love, and then I thought "No! this is cruel, this is abhorrent, this is poor, poor, poor. It`s a defenceless animal which is being exploited". So do you know what I did Mark?

M: Wot?

R: I grabbed the monkey and I legged it and I hid him in my suitcase and I brought him home and I got home and I unpacked my suitcase, and he was dead, he was as dead as a dead thing.

M: Right

R: and I welled up and I felt so bad for this creature that I skinned it and I sold it for £30 so it`s a rug now, my mate`s got it, it`s fantastic.
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I love that "and I thought, this is like life":D
 
gentlegreen said:
Agreed about the theme tune and "Sailing By" ..

I find "Thought for the day" to be quite harmless these days - whenever it isn't Anne Atkins. It used to coincide with my morning dump.

I grew up with Radio 4 Drama - back in the 70s - "The Day Of The Triffids" had a great effect on me - as did "Lost Horizons" and "Chief Inspector West" ...

I've got out of the habit recently .. I've listened to repeats of "Baldi" several times on BBC7 ....

Comedy has indeed become rather poor when you think back to "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" et al.

Well worth checking for repeats of "Old Harry's Game" on 7 - that's rather good ...
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At the risk of turning this into "things that are great about R4," I've never heard anything to match "The man in black," which was a series of stand-alone horror stories in the late 80s. Genuinely frightening, some of them were.

For all its faults, I still have R4 going on three different radios when I'm getting ready for work -- one in the bedroom, one in the living room, and one in the bathroom. :)
 
tangerinedream said:
even more confusing is the fact they employ both Punt AND Dennis and continue to do so, even though they havn't done anything good since that 'lovely milky milky' bloke in about 1989.
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Hugh Dennis actually did a skit on "The Now Show" about the Microsoft Paperclip that I actually found amusing ... it was several years ago now.

My guess is the programme is aimed at 30-ish people who like Russell Brand et al ...

Hopefully the lovely Sandy will be back soon.
 
DaRealSpoon said:
I respect your right to enjoy the Archers, however I loathe it with a passion I don't fully understand. It makes my brain want to escape out of my ears... I'll literally dive across rooms full of people to turn it off the minute I hear that music.

I think I need therapy, it's one of the only things I would say I 'hate'. :(
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I used to feel like that. Then I turned into my mum and began to enjoy it. It kind of crept up on me without realising. I blame the Sunday omnibus, it's like a gateway drug.

Ditto Gardeners' Question Time. And the shipping forecast. Oh dear ...
 
As mentioned, You and Yours is truly dreadful, patronising and boring at the same time.

Face the Facts.
The Moral Maze
Anything with Libby Purves who should have been pensioned off centuries ago.
 
temper_tantrum said:
I used to feel like that. Then I turned into my mum and began to enjoy it. It kind of crept up on me without realising. I blame the Sunday omnibus, it's like a gateway drug.

Ditto Gardeners' Question Time. And the shipping forecast. Oh dear ...
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Ahhh, but I enjoy GQT and the shipping forecast :) perhaps one day I'll have to succumb to the Archers, when I'm too old and lazy to change stations.

I dread that day :(
 
9am this morning. An in depth interview with some cunt from Barclays. Banks is all they ever fucking talk about. All the fucking time. :mad:
 
tangerinedream said:
[*]A bizarre tendancy to make the 'book at bedtime' some kind of mad thing about rape and murder in the congo which isn't what I want to listen to at bedtime.
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:D:D
tangerinedream said:
The now show is not alright it's all wrong. :mad:
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Seven words you’ll never hear anyone say– “oh FUCK!– I’ve missed The Now Show!”

I hate the Archers too. Just hearing the jolly hockey sticks theme tune start up has a similar Pavlovian emetic effect on me as inadvertently hearing George Lamb’s fucking air-horn.

The new That Mitchell and Webb Sound (tuesdays, 6.30) is a cracking return to form though :cool:
 
In recent days I have been infuriated by a conversation taking place during PM, which was around the recent comments by a novelist regarding the literary qualities of the Qur'an. There were questions which screamed to be asked but instead EM just played it safe in an apparent effort to avoid controversy. Radio and 4 and Islam never mixes well!

:mad::mad:
 
Eddie Meyer. Being a rude, obnoxious prick isn't the same thing as an aggressive and probing interview style, and he really needs to learn the fucking difference. He's the only person that can make me sympathise with Tory MPs.
 
I love Eddie Meyer. He's not rude or obnoxious and he doesn't let people off the hook. PM is my favourite news programme.
 
DaRealSpoon said:
Ahhh, but I enjoy GQT and the shipping forecast :) perhaps one day I'll have to succumb to the Archers, when I'm too old and lazy to change stations.

I dread that day :(
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Sounds as though you're like my dad - decades of being forced to listen to it (my mum's addicted) and he's never managed to develop a liking or even a tolerance of it. Now THAT's what I call love - being willing to sit through The Archers for someone ...!
 
Either the WI should admit male members or there should be a mens hour on R4.

The only thing that causes me to switch off R4 is the Archers.
 
Thought for the Day. Patronising religiocentric bilge.
:mad:

You and Yours, Money Box are just Interminably dull.

Quote Unquote, Round Britain Quiz, that music thing with Paul Gambacini. All shite. Maybe I'd feel different if I knew the answers. But that's probably who shows like that appeal to. Smug knowalls.

now Show, isn't brilliant but it's far better than I Guess That's Why They Call it the news.

The rest. It's the station I listen to most, even if it's not all to my tastes.
 
The Archers. I don't actively listen to it but it seeps into my consciousness when I can't be bothered changing station. That bloke though, Fallan's dad. His voice, everything he says...
:mad:
 
DaRealSpoon said:
I respect your right to enjoy the Archers, however I loathe it with a passion I don't fully understand. It makes my brain want to escape out of my ears... I'll literally dive across rooms full of people to turn it off the minute I hear that music.

I think I need therapy, it's one of the only things I would say I 'hate'. :(
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I'm with you here
 
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