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Elderly
1,419 posts
107 months
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singlecoil said: I can only get Radio 2 in my workshop Do you live down a deep hole? I often travel on the A413 to Silverstone and can get all the FM national channels on the car radio and if you can put up with it, R4 on long wave (for the cricket!).
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singlecoil
Original Poster
14,873 posts
115 months
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Elderly said: singlecoil said: I can only get Radio 2 in my workshop Do you live down a deep hole? I often travel on the A413 to Silverstone and can get all the FM national channels on the car radio and if you can put up with it, R4 on long wave (for the cricket!). Trust me, I've tried. The steel frame and cladding doesn't help, I suspect. Also some of my machines produce a certain amount of short range interference (which can affect the DAB too, sometimes).
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lotus72
335 posts
135 months
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what about Radio 4 Extra then??
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McClure
1,200 posts
15 months
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thinfourth2 said: Oh and take a listen to 6 Music its the best radio station ever especially if Huey morgan is on Jeah!
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FlossyThePig
2,402 posts
112 months
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I can remember when Radio 4 was the Home Service.
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Willy Nilly
2,872 posts
36 months
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There is some good stuff on R4 if you can sit and listen to it. Trouble is, you need to wade through hours of twee middle class s  te to get to it. The stupid, jaunty hatty music on the comedy programmes make me retch.
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NDA
10,188 posts
94 months
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FlossyThePig said: I can remember when Radio 4 was the Home Service. On the wireless ? Jumpers for goal posts? 
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drivin_me_nuts
13,735 posts
80 months
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Riff Raff said: I've no idea why. If ever there was a programme that was past its sell by date it's that one.
One thing I do enjoy on R4 are the plays/drama. For some reason I've always enjoyed drama on the radio - it just seems to work so much better than on TV, I suppose because you have to make more use of your imagination. I'm a huge fan to. I find the medium of radio so much more imaginative than TV. When you take away the visual cues the mind just runs riot to fill in the spaces. It's the same if you put your favourite movie on and then turn the picture off. Do it with a movie with decent dialogue of soundtracks and it's an absolutle revelation.
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CDP
4,551 posts
123 months
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drivin_me_nuts said: I'm a huge fan to. I find the medium of radio so much more imaginative than TV. When you take away the visual cues the mind just runs riot to fill in the spaces. It's the same if you put your favourite movie on and then turn the picture off. Do it with a movie with decent dialogue of soundtracks and it's an absolutle revelation. It's why the Hitchhiker radio series was far better than the TV series or film.
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Eric Mc
67,253 posts
134 months
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Willy Nilly said: There is some good stuff on R4 if you can sit and listen to it. Trouble is, you need to wade through hours of twee middle class s te to get to it. The stupid, jaunty hatty music on the comedy programmes make me retch. I think you have an atitude problem. However, BBC iPlayer should be able to assist you in dealing with your prejudices.
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Red Firecracker
4,170 posts
96 months
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davepoth said: I can't believe 198 longwave hasn't been mentioned yet. Three words.
Test.
Match.
Special.
Compulsive listening, and I hate cricket. You really should try the other TMS, Test Match Sofa, for the next Test, available online.
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911newbie
409 posts
129 months
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To be fair, I also hate some of the afternoon plays they put on. They can be rather fixated on middle class, arty farty, deep emotional stuff.
How about a good story once in a while ?
Equally, they do also serialise some cracking books, LOTR and the hobbit for instance. I simply can't wait till my kids are old enough to listen to those with me.
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singlecoil
Original Poster
14,873 posts
115 months
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911newbie said: To be fair, I also hate some of the afternoon plays they put on. They can be rather fixated on middle class, arty farty, deep emotional stuff.
How about a good story once in a while ? To continue the fairness I like the plays, but... 911newbie said: Equally, they do also serialise some cracking books, LOTR and the hobbit for instance. ...LOTR would have me taking the trouble to turn over or off.
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SGirl
6,961 posts
130 months
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Nobody has mentioned "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" yet? Some of that is great. We even have a Mornington Crescent thread on here somewhere.
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Eric Mc
67,253 posts
134 months
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Yes - a real gem and consistently funny for decades.
I'm not a huge fan of the plays either but occasionally they do have some very interesting ones. A year or so ago they had a dramatised version of Neville Shute's 1940s aircraft accident investigation story, "No Highway", for instance. They also had a drama documentary on teh cancellation of the TSR2.
What chances ANYTHING of that nature turning up on TV.
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spitfire-ian
2,747 posts
97 months
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The Radio 4 Friday Night Comedy podcast is listened to multiple times a week in our house  It led us on to buying lots of old series of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and Just A Minute on audiobook :-)
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Heartworm
466 posts
30 months
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spitfire-ian said: The Radio 4 Friday Night Comedy podcast is listened to multiple times a week in our house It led us on to buying lots of old series of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and Just A Minute on audiobook :-) This was the same trap that got me stuck to radio 4!
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Tyre Tread
6,317 posts
85 months
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Was converted to 4 when I started commuting long distance about 15 years ago and I love the comedy at 6.30pm.
The one presenter on the Today programme I cannot stand is Justin Webb. His questions just go on and on and on and on until there's little time for the interviewee to answer.
Can we please replace Webb with Eddie Maher (sp?) as long as he still can do PM as well. Pllleeeeaaassse?
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Lurking Lawyer
3,512 posts
94 months
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Watchman said: Eddie Mair is a legend. Was the spat with Robert Peston real? I assumed it was Eddie just being Eddie and that it was all played up for effect. It was interesting to see that it was reported in a couple of the papers as being a "proper" on air spat but I still think it was mischief-making on the part of Mr Mair.
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K12beano
14,363 posts
144 months
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Lurking Lawyer said: Watchman said: Eddie Mair is a legend. Was the spat with Robert Peston real? I assumed it was Eddie just being Eddie and that it was all played up for effect. It was interesting to see that it was reported in a couple of the papers as being a "proper" on air spat but I still think it was mischief-making on the part of Mr Mair.  Plus the sort of banter that happens with the likes of Tim Harford and Nils Blythe (Upshares/Downshares now BoE PR guy).... The man has timing as good as most comedians/comics!
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