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Great Radio Programmes

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Adrian Mole the Wilderness Years is being read on Radio 4 late night. Some very funny lines - like the time he tried sniffing glue and got a model aircraft stuck to his nose.
 
summerisle said:
The final series of Voices of the First World War is completed this week. Eye witness' accounts of the final year of the war .
The first episode : an account of being sunk by a German U Boat.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00012q3

Well worth listening to the previous episodes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t7p9l/episodes/player?page=6
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I listened to some of these when they were first aired, fascinating listening. I haven't heard the Uboat one so will listen to that shortly.
 
Looks interesting :

BBC - Jim Morrison’s Will To Be Weird
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Saturday 8 December​
9.00am-12.00pm​
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BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA​
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Paul Gambaccini presents a three hour special exploring the mystique around the influential musician Jim Morrison.
‘The Lizard King’ and singer with The Doors would have celebrated his 75th birthday on 8 December 2018.

He was one of the most influential musicians of the 1960s, inspiring a host of future stars including Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Michael Hutchence and Ian Curtis. In addition to his lyric writing, Morrison was also recognised for his prose and poetry, often improvising lines during live performances of The Doors.

Morrison’s mystique has never faded and over three hours, with an intriguing selection of programmes from the BBC’s radio archive, Radio 4 Extra will try to establish why.

Jim Morrison’s Will To Be Weird will feature: Cult Heroes – Jim Morrison; Cult Classics – Drugs; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (a BBC Radio 3 drama by William Blake); Cemetery Confessions (a drama where Morrison speaks from beyond the grave and has his confession heard); and extracts from Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception originally heard on BBC Radio 1.
 

degsy said:
Radio eh, love it. custom made for in the car, totally ( nearly ) hands free, just drive ( or sit in the traffic and chill ) and listen.

I'd like to say I remember [Poor language removed] Barton...but I don't

Radio then; That meant 90% of the time The light Program 1500m on the long wave ( more power )
Music while you work
Mrs Dales Dairy ( 1950's soap )
Worker Play time
Wilfred Pickles
Victor Sylvester
The Shipping Forecast
The Archers
Jet Morgan
Cricket - before it was TMS

At the weekend
Saturday;
Children's Favourites
Saturday Club
Sports report at 5.00 with that theme tune. Eamon Andrews telling me Everton had won the League in 1963... I knew, I was there, but legging home to hear it officially on the BBC was half of the fun.

Sunday;
The Archers Omnibus edition
Letter from America ( R 4? )
2 way family favourites ( musical request program for soldiers abroad )
A comedy Program, one of many from;
Educating Archie ( ventriloquism on the radio ffs, but it was the 50's )
Ted Ray
Arthur Askey ( I thangyou )
Jimmy Clitheroe
Dave King
The Navy Lark
The Goon Show
And the classics Beyond our Ken & Round the Horne, Nominally Kenneth Horne urbane smooth front man/straight man/foil
Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick camping it up good style, bringing the Bona world to the masses.
Hello I'm Julian and this is my 'friend' Sandy
Then ' The Billy Cotton Show '
Movie Go Round, Introduced with the theme tune 'The Carousel Watlz ' hence the pun in the title
Semprini boring music
Sing something Simple, even more boring music...again it was the 50' and early 60's
Then came the high point of the evening Pick of the pops the top 20 in 60 mins ( was he smashie or nicey... nicey I think )

Starting to sound like the oldies thread here

There was Radio Luxembourg on the Medium wave that kept on fading in and out with the heavyside layer

Then came Pirate Radio and the rest was, as is said history


edit; Mods, GOT. ffs the contraction of Richard is D**k, can't your program sort for context...obviously not, but really.
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I've just found this thread, and having lived in Melbourne for 58 years Degsy's post brought back a lot of memories. I'd add two more - Journey Into Space and Desert Island Discs.
As a matter of fact, I came across a hardback in a bookshop in Moonee Ponds yesterday, Desert Island Discs by Mitchell Symons, published in 2012.
I just know it's going to be a great read.
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bfxw6j

In this first episode, with the help of psychologist Drew Westen (author of The Political Brain) and Ed Woodcock (Director of Narrative at creative agency Aesop), John deconstructs the stories deeply woven into the two most successful slogans of recent times - Take Back Control and Make America Great Again. He asks neuroscientist Tali Sharot about how our brains are pre-disposed to respond to story, and talks about nostalgia, master narratives and narrative ecologies with Yiannis Gabriel who studies organisational storytelling. John also visits the Brian Haw collection at the Museum of London to see how counter-narratives can become mainstream, and hears from podcaster Chrystal Genesis about the need to allow different voices the opportunity to challenge the prevailing stories of our times.

Not everyone’s cup of tea and not exactly saying anything new but thought it was well put together and kept me interested. @Bruce Wayne might like this amongst others
 


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