Great Radio Programmes

[summerisle]

Interesting programme on the 'disappearences' during the Spanish Civil war. Second episode next week.

Why some of Spain’s Civil War survivors are still waiting to recover lost relatives

In a new radio documentary for BBC Radio 4, Madrid-based reporter Lucas Laursen meets families still struggling to find the remains of relatives killed by Franco's forces, and to say goodbye on their own terms.

www.thelocal.es

BBC Radio 4 - Spain's Lost Generations, Franco’s Disappeared

Lucas Laursen seeks the missing loved ones, eighty years after the Spanish Civil War.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I enjoyed this last night - https://www.radio.cz/en/section/spe...-fYXoecasgOm-_dIUWVaUrCS9nS1d0Qu3uMA1ghy1KwPA

About a lady who recently turned 100. She fled from Czech in the 40s and has lived in Britain since then. Talks about her life and with her daughter and grand-daughter.

 

[summerisle]

Looks interesting.

BBC World Service - Music Extra, A History of Music and Technology

Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason charts a history of music and technology.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Music Extra: A History Of Music And Technology

Ep 1/9
Sunday 28 April
8.00pm-9.00pm
BBC WORLD SERVICE

In a major new series from the BBC World Service and the Open University, Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason explores a history of music and technology across the world in nine programmes.

The series tells this story of musical innovation through the Hammond organ, the synthesizer, the electric guitar, samplers and drum machines, the recording studio, as well as the extraordinary work of electronic music’s pioneers.

Among the contributors in the series are producers and engineers such as Ken Scott (The Beatles, David Bowie) Trevor Horn, Susan Rogers (Prince), Hank Shocklee (Public Enemy) and Roni Size.
The series will also speak to inventors such as Peter Vogel - the man behind the Fairlight CMI sampler, which defined the sound of the 1980s - and Andy Hildebrand, who invented AutoTune.

Programme One: The Story Of Sound Recording
The idea of capturing sound had enchanted and puzzled humans for millennia, and just before the dawn of the 20th Century we finally figured it out, with the advent of the Phonograph and Gramophone. This programme charts the progression of recording technology and explores its cultural impact, and how we as consumers had to learn to listen to recorded music.

• Produced by Richard Fenton-Smith and Craig Templeton for BBC World Service in association with the Open University

 

[arch stanton]

The Reunion on R4 brings back together people from some historical events and they get to reminisce. Some of them like the Wapping and Miner's disputes, tensions are still raw despite many years having passed.

This one was on last week about the RAF aircrew who were shot down and captured in Gulf War 1.

The Reunion - Gulf War Aircrew POWs - BBC Sounds

Sue MacGregor brings together the RAF men held as prisoners during the first Gulf war.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

Radio Garden

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radio.garden

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[Sarnia Kevin]

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

Archie Andrews was the name of the dummy, the (very bad) ventriloquist was Peter Brough and the programme was called "Educating Archie". It ran for 10 years between 1950 and 1960. I remember getting an Archie Andrews Annual for Christmas one year, even though I had never heard the radio programme!

 

[summerisle]

Quite a funny programme about the British Empire by Anglo/Malaysian comedian Phil Wang.

BBC Radio 4 - Phil Wang: Wangsplaining

Phil Wang Wangsplains the contentious topics of our time.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[arch stanton]

Quite a funny programme about the British Empire by Anglo/Malaysian comedian Phil Wang.

BBC Radio 4 - Phil Wang: Wangsplaining

Phil Wang Wangsplains the contentious topics of our time.

www.bbc.co.uk

Good call Summery, I listened to that when out was first broadcast and liked it, he's quite easy to listen too, a bit quirky and self deprecating.

 

[larbert toffee]

Good call Summery, I listened to that when out was first broadcast and liked it, he's quite easy to listen too, a bit quirky and self deprecating.

Saw him on 'Live at the Apollo' he's a very funny live comedian also.

 

[gonetomorrow]

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.

Or when he tried to paint his bedroom walls black and the Little Noddy pattern kept showing through.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Radio Garden

Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

radio.garden

This gives access to thousands of radio stations online around the world.

Wow that's amazing nice one

 

[summerisle]

I presume this'll be on the IPlayer later ; features interviews and things as well.

 

[Golan]

I presume this'll be on the IPlayer later ; features interviews and things as well.

Just bought the reissued Album yesterday.

 

[Methuselah]

[Poor language removed] (Richard) Barton - Special Agent. The Goon show. Music while you work. lol

 

[Market trader]

I remember listening to the Archie Andrews Show on Sundays, apparently with another 15 million people. I think as a birthday treat, though it was well after my birthday, I was taken to see the Archie Andrews Show at the Empire Theatre in Liverpool in the first week of April 1952. No, I don't remember the date but the show had Tony Hancock in it and there is a Hancock Appreciation Society which lists all his engagements, even if for only one night - remarkable dedication by someone. Hancock was his tutor and was followed by others in that role including Benny Hill, Harry Secombe, [Poor language removed] Emery, Bernard Bresslaw, Hattie Jacques, and Bruce Forsyth – together with a young Julie Andrews was Archie's girlfriend. Good talent spotting. Julie Andrews was replaced by Beryl Reid playing Marlene, definitely a Brummie who always introduced herself by saying, "Good afternoon each; my name's Marlene."