Great Radio Programmes

[summerisle]

The Twilight World of Syd Barrett, R4 Extra on Thursday. Explores his mental breakdown in 1967.

 

[summerisle]

Five interesting 15 minute programmes exploring the early stages of the Cold War. Events include the Greek Civil War, the Berlin airlift and the fall of Shanghai to the communists.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07kfs3r/episodes/player

Also worth a listen, Document. The CIA's attempt to forment an uprising in Albania.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07j4ppw

 

[Moomin]

The Twilight World of Syd Barrett, R4 Extra on Thursday. Explores his mental breakdown in 1967.

Will have to find that, sounds interesting.

 

[summerisle]

Will have to find that, sounds interesting.

It was very interesting.

http://www.workingstory.com/music/the-twilight-world-of-syd-barrett/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011plrs

 

[summerisle]

Pretty good adaptation of 1984 starring Christopher Eccleston and Tim Piggott Smith.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pz054

 

[summerisle]

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

 

[summerisle]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, on R4 Extra, and the IPlayer. Well worth a listen if you haven't heard before the original radio version.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jlzj#play

 

[anjelikaferrett]

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.

 

[evertondotcom]

Radio X is brilliant.

 

[summerisle]

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.

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]

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

Haha! The fact that he was rubbish has just made the story even better!

 

[degsy]

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.

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.

 

[Joey66]

hold your plums

A classic by Billy, and Wally I went to see a live nighttime show at the theatre my they were good!

 

[summerisle]

A documentary about John Arlott. Explores his life and career, especially his part in the apartheid controversy in the South African cricket tour of England, and his promoting of Basil D'oliveira.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01944rf

 

[silent bob]

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.

Some of the Julian and Sandy stuff still cracks me up.