Great Radio Programmes

[Donald Twain]

lol Mcglashen! EMLYN HUGHES!!!

 

[summerisle]

Return this week of the excellent series -Cold War : Stories from the Big Freeze. Topics so far this week include Khrushchev and Brezhnev, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xrrnl/episodes/player

Also on Radio 4 this week an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

 

[gonetomorrow]

Cast away on a desert island - what do you want? A radio or a TV?

Radio please and a lifetime supply of Duracell AA batts.

 

[summerisle]

Cast away on a desert island - what do you want? A radio or a TV?

Radio please and a lifetime supply of Duracell AA batts.

Nowadays, can't you get a solar powered one ?

 

[gonetomorrow]

Nowadays, can't you get a solar powered one ?

Yes but I like listening at night time.

 

[Donald Twain]

Yes but I like listening at night time.

You can wind them up!

 

[gonetomorrow]

You can wind them up!

I had a wind-up one. It was quite a novelty. Unfortunately the handle broke after a week or so.

Anyway, I've got better things to do on a desert island than wind up the radio every 10 minutes.

 

[summerisle]

I had a wind-up one. It was quite a novelty. Unfortunately the handle broke after a week or so.

Anyway, I've got better things to do on a desert island than wind up the radio every 10 minutes.

Friday !

 

[arch stanton]

You can wind them up!

ahhh the DaveK model

 

[jal123]

Cast away on a desert island - what do you want? A radio or a TV?

Radio please and a lifetime supply of Duracell AA batts.

Radio all day, preferably a two way one

 

[gonetomorrow]

Friday !

Friday! Thank God it's you!

 

[summerisle]

Just finished listening to a pretty good dramatisation of The Marathon Man, including dentists.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xx9tn

 

[summerisle]

Interesting programme about the man who drew the maps for the partition of India - in five weeks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0902rn9

 

[ToffeeDan]

Favuorites on R4 - TMS, ISIHAC, Just a Minute, FOOC, You and Yours, Saturday Live...

 

[Donald Twain]

The Shipping forecast R4 is 150 years old , happy birthday to a fantastic broadcast! Three cheers ..