Giving up Radio 4

[MajorMantra]

I'd rather tune into 4 and at least listen to professional peanuts.

With you there. I think phone-ins are a vile invention.

Matthew

 

[Hacienda71]

I stopped listening to the Today programme after twenty years last November because the banking crisis was so depressing and there was nothing you could do about it. Sometimes relapse and listen now but just as likely to listen to Radios 1, 2, 3, classic FM or Smooth FM. Not as informative but a damn site better for your mood.

 

[wafflycat]

If I hear the Archers' theme tune, I rush across the room to switch it off.

It improved immensely when ISIHAC did it.

The words of 'Love Me Tender' sung to the theme from The Archers.

 

[rich p]

Phone-ins are the nadir of radio in my most humble opinion. Mostly giving people who know very little an opportunity to inarticulately demonstrate their lack of knowledge and insight to other people who can't form their own opinions.

Oh, and it's cheap radio too, apparently, which is why it's so prevalent these days.

Don't even get me started on that smug git nicky Campbell.....

 

[Arch]

The Archers? Of course I listen, they are family..

My mother was even born a Grundy. True Fact!

 

[Crankarm]

The best show on the Radio 4 was or hopefully is "They had a bad week" - Punt and Dennis in the 6:30pm slot fridays repeated on saturdays Radio2 12.30pm. But P&S seem to have preferred to stick to the not quite so good The Now Show IMHO which can be inspired and dull in equal measure. The old classics such as Just A Minute still entertain if not quite to the same degree as when Kenneth Williams and Clement Freud were on them. Couldn't stand the NewsQuiz when Simon Hoggart was presenting but thankfully Sandy Toksvig seems to be turning it around.

 

[goo_mason]

When I'm not listening to Radio 4, I'm listening to the marvellous archives of comedy on BBC7, through the magic of my WiFi Internet Radio and the 'On Demand' function that lets you see & choose from any of the Listen Again material available.

I spend hours in the kitchen on a Sunday cooking, ironing & washing just so I can catch up with Hancock's Half Hour, Dead Ringers, The Navy Lark, The Shuttleworths, Dads Army, The Goon Show, Giles Wemmbley-Hogg or whatever's currently available. It's utter magic, and worth the cost of the license fee alone!

 

[MajorMantra]

When I'm not listening to Radio 4, I'm listening to the marvellous archives of comedy on BBC7, through the magic of my WiFi Internet Radio and the 'On Demand' function that lets you see & choose from any of the Listen Again material available.

I spend hours in the kitchen on a Sunday cooking, ironing & washing just so I can catch up with Hancock's Half Hour, Dead Ringers, The Navy Lark, The Shuttleworths, Dads Army, The Goon Show, Giles Wemmbley-Hogg or whatever's currently available. It's utter magic, and worth the cost of the license fee alone!

I recommend Trevor's World of Sport if you haven't had a listen already.

Matthew

 

[Crankarm]

When I'm not listening to Radio 4, I'm listening to the marvellous archives of comedy on BBC7, through the magic of my WiFi Internet Radio and the 'On Demand' function that lets you see & choose from any of the Listen Again material available.

I spend hours in the kitchen on a Sunday cooking, ironing & washing just so I can catch up with Hancock's Half Hour, Dead Ringers, The Navy Lark, The Shuttleworths, Dads Army, The Goon Show, Giles Wemmbley-Hogg or whatever's currently available. It's utter magic, and worth the cost of the license fee alone!

Yes I've been listening to HHH, DA and TGS. Priceless.

And err....... btw GM you don't need a license to listen to the wireless.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

The best show on the Radio 4 was or hopefully is "They had a bad week" - Punt and Dennis in the 6:30pm slot fridays repeated on saturdays Radio2 12.30pm. But P&S seem to have preferred to stick to the not quite so good The Now Show IMHO which can be inspired and dull in equal measure. The old classics such as Just A Minute still entertain if not quite to the same degree as when Kenneth Williams and Clement Freud were on them. Couldn't stand the NewsQuiz when Simon Hoggart was presenting but thankfully Sandy Toksvig seems to be turning it around.

Punt and Dennis are as funny as the plague. Hugh Dennis looks like he's slept in a skip, can't stand him!

And as for Toksvig, don't get me started......

 

[Glow worm]

Don't even get me started on that smug git nicky Campbell.....[/QUOTE]

Relieved I'm not alone in finding Campbell unbelievably cocky and up himself. I just can't stand the fella . I think Simon Mayo is becoming a really first rate broadcaster (never heard him on R1 as we still had R. Caroline then-no comparison!), and his Friday pm show with film critic Mark Kermode is superb radio- and I hate going to the cinema!

 

[Bollo]

Punt and Dennis are as funny as the plague. Hugh Dennis looks like he's slept in a skip, can't stand him!

And as for Toksvig, don't get me started......

Hugh Dennis is a very keen cyclist apparently. Did the etape in 2007. D'ya think he might be on CC........as Joe!

 

[potsy]

Another one here sticking up for Count Arthur I find it hilarious tbh,agree about some of the comedy though utter rubbish sometimes.
I flick between radio1 (moyles) radio4 and local radio manchester for footie,then radio2 mark radcliffe.

 

[Big Jack Brass]

...and his Friday pm show with film critic Mark Kermode is superb radio- and I hate going to the cinema!

An essential podcast download for me. Nice of them to make it available to those of us who don't care to hear the rest of the programme.

 

[JtB]

I've listened to radio 4 in the car for more years than I care to recall, but the car battery went flat about a month ago and I subsequently found I'd lost the radio code. Anyway I've been without the car radio/CD ever since and at first it was a pain, but now I really do NOT miss having the radio (or music) in the car.