Great Radio Programmes

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Sport and the British. If yesterday's episode is anything to go by, an excellent series - The Olympic Games. Including a funny interview with a British chap who competed in the first one in 1896. Thirty fifteen minute episodes ; they're repeats so all of them available on the R4 Extra IPlayer. Today's episode : did our love of cricket stop us having a revolution, unlike the French ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01b9h7c
 
Mostly Radio 2 in the car.

My Mum, aged 80, of the generation when Radio was THE thing told me and my brothers about how she listened to a ventriloquist on the radio and got very annoyed when we laughed hysterically at the concept (he was marvellous!!) followed by asking if that was the easiest job in the world.

But she wasn't joking! A radio ventriloquist....you could not make this up.
 
anjelikaferrett said:
Mostly Radio 2 in the car.

My Mum, aged 80, of the generation when Radio was THE thing told me and my brothers about how she listened to a ventriloquist on the radio and got very annoyed when we laughed hysterically at the concept (he was marvellous!!) followed by asking if that was the easiest job in the world.

But she wasn't joking! A radio ventriloquist....you could not make this up.
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There was a play about him recently, on the radio of course. Archie Andrews was his name. He went on the telly but he was a dreadful ventriloquist and his lips moved all the time he was performing . He retired shortly after and became a tailor
 

anjelikaferrett said:
Mostly Radio 2 in the car.

My Mum, aged 80, of the generation when Radio was THE thing told me and my brothers about how she listened to a ventriloquist on the radio and got very annoyed when we laughed hysterically at the concept (he was marvellous!!) followed by asking if that was the easiest job in the world.

But she wasn't joking! A radio ventriloquist....you could not make this up.
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50's & 60's radio was magic; some audio of Round the Horne and Beyond our Ken ( pune there on Kenneth Horne ) still exists, still funny now, (IMO of course) especially Kenneth Williams, camping it up something wicked - on a Sunday too...worth a listen even now.
 
degsy said:
50's & 60's radio was magic; some audio of Round the Horne and Beyond our Ken ( pune there on Kenneth Horne ) still exists, still funny now, (IMO of course) especially Kenneth Williams, camping it up something wicked - on a Sunday too...worth a listen even now.
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Some of the Julian and Sandy stuff still cracks me up.
 

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