Great Radio Programmes

[tim gabbott]

I listend to us winning the league against Norwich as a younger teenager on the radio . Happy days them can still here the theme tune .

 

[tim gabbott]

hold your plums

Still listen to old ones of these on you tube makes you feel intelligent

 

[Yorkie]

Just a minute or I'm sorry I haven't a clue. Latter was better with the previous presenter (Humphrey Lyttleton) who's dead now but still a good listen.
I enjoy listening to football when it's not on TV. Seems to add something to it that you don't get on screen.

 

[Eggs]

.....I have to admit to tuning into Radio4 most evenings. I'll honestly listen to anything on that station, from Dimbleby's Any Questions to the obituary show on a Sunday. The documentary's are generally far removed from anything I am involved in but are compulsive, there's even a programme that analyses statements to determine the truth. Fascinating, eh.

 

[Cels]

The only Radio programme I listen to is Johnny Vaughan's Warm Up on TalkSport. Not the most intelectual, but still entertaining.

 

[summerisle]

Radio 3 has eclectic programmes. Two of the best are Words and Music on a Sunday evening. A topic is picked and then readings from poetry and prose, together with music, are played illustrating the chosen theme.
Secondly, Late Junction, midweek around eleven, has music from around the world and from different time periods : jazz, folk, experimental, classical and contemporary.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Radio has always been my favourite media. I've listened to a radio since a young boy, be it football on BBC Radio Merseyside or the national radio station Radio 2 (as was) with Sports Report on a Saturday at 5pm.

I think I got my love of politics from Radio 4, Today Show and Any questions.

Great comedy too.

Almost all the radio I've ever listened to has been talk based, I'm not a great music listener to be honest.

Thought it would be good to have a thread about great radio shows.

Will start with Alistair Cooke's Letter from America.

What a wonderful programme that was.

Interesting memorial lecture on the i-player currently http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05t5jxf

People love story-telling

Always thought it was really cool that the Internet has given radio a whole new lease of life after proving so damaging to other media.

At least in the US, mainstream TV is dead; all "reality" shows and very little story-telling.

 

[glorydaze]

You can rip the BBC for a lot but the diversity of their radio is excellent.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Would love some further recommendations

Not great recommendations, all very eccentric, but some of my favorites for radio/podcast:

Men in Blazers - two expats discuss (sometimes) football for Americans

The Tony Kornheiser Show - about as eccentric as it gets; a former sports writer for NYT and Washington Post has a "local" DC radio show that mostly talks about his fears, friends, largely ignorant observations on current events, and sometimes sports

Planet Money - brief commentary on events in business/economics

Car Talk - now in syndication, two brothers who might once have graduated from an esteemed university offer substandard advice about cars and car repair to people calling in

Wait, wait, don't tell me - a news quiz/humor show from a nerdy/American perspective

All are guaranteed to disappoint (and available by podcast for free), so enjoy

 

[ste d' indica]

People love story-telling



At least in the US, mainstream TV is dead; all "reality" shows and very little story-telling.

As channels have increased its getting that way over here, aside from the BBC and footy we don't bother with the telly much, everything we watch is either on demand or disc. We're listening to more radio than ever though.

 

[wbn61]

listening to planet rock via broadband at the moment. listened to a lot of radio when I was a delivery driver, lots of plays, comedy and debates etc. used to time my deliveries if something was on that hadn't finished yet, driving slower or parking up.
as a youngster radio was an essential medium for the latest music and keeping updated with all football news. shows I remember most and fondly are noel Edmunds on a sun morning pre house party, the phil Easton express every week night around 7 I think and the tommy vance show Friday nights. could bore you for ages going on about some of the memories I have of radio but I will spare you.

 

[Donald Twain]

Choral Evensong radio 4 late at night on the I player, amazingly beautiful and soothing.

 

[The Esk]

People love story-telling

Agree. Alastair Cooke also had the most fantastic rich voice. I think that's one of the real attractions of radio - it forces you to concentrate on the voice of the presenter, and that can be a beautiful thing.

 

[Whitebootman]

The shipping forecast for me whenever I'm awake. Love 'sailing by' at 12.48 am.

Me too. Have you read Attention All Shipping by Charlie Connelly? Good read, nice look around the shipping forecast.

 

[summerisle]

Agree. Alastair Cooke also had the most fantastic rich voice. I think that's one of the real attractions of radio - it forces you to concentrate on the voice of the presenter, and that can be a beautiful thing.

Anton Lesser has a very descriptive voice. He narrated a great H G Wells short story The Door in the Wall.
About a boy who goes through a door as a child and finds a mysterious land. Throughout his life he has three further opportunities to enter but always has a pressing engagement to thwart him. In the end, after becoming a successful politician, he makes a desperate attempt to find the door again.