Giving up Radio 4

[just jim]

After reading through this thread my wife and I have decided to move the dial of the wireless to the left to give The Third Programme a whirl. It's working. By Humphries it's working!

 

[Hover Fly]

Classic FM is that everything is so fleeting; Elgar rules the waves; and all the callers seems to either be students revising for their exams, or middle aged folk that own and permanently reside in their conservatories.


Presenter: Next caller!
Caller: Yes, I'm Middle-aged Chap, I'm listening to you on the radio whilst doing the gardening in my conservatory...do you have any Elgar?
Presenter: Yeah, let's go nuts, how about...Pomp ad Circumstance

Or that frigging lark going up.
I can't do it myself but what Cassic FM needs is someone to ring in and ask for Magnus Lindberg's "Graffiti for Chorus and Orchestra".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n1qjr

 

[Arch]

Or that frigging lark going up.

No no! That's one of my favourites. Does that make me so very shallow?

 

[Fab Foodie]

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

Naaa, he's Chap.

 

[Hover Fly]

No no! That's one of my favourites. Does that make me so very shallow?

It used to be one of my favourites but it got a bit overexposed.

 

[albal]

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.

I recently did a trip to Murcia, spain (I drive HGV's) & the vehicle had a bust cd player & the LW reception was particularly bad. Bliss ONLY taking in the views , most euro radio channels arent up to much. Silence for 3500kms.

 

[dragon72]

Gary Richardson's sports segments on Today are awful. He always tries to be the scandal scoop-merchant and bullies guests into saying something negative.
Just report the scores and results, Gaz. That's all I want at 6.27am.

 

[Glow worm]

Or that frigging lark going up.
I can't do it myself but what Cassic FM needs is someone to ring in and ask for Magnus Lindberg's "Graffiti for Chorus and Orchestra".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n1qjr

Or Slipknot. It's a constant battle in this house between Classic FM (Mrs G) and R4/5/ or the odd pirate for me. With Classic FM it's all that 'Beryl's on the M4 and she'd love to hear some Elgar' crap- and 'Brian's on the M6 - he really likes Beethoven'. If you turn the volume down you can actually hear the composers spinning in their graves.

 

[Glow worm]

I recently did a trip to Murcia, spain (I drive HGV's) & the vehicle had a bust cd player & the LW reception was particularly bad. Bliss ONLY taking in the views , most euro radio channels arent up to much. Silence for 3500kms.

You've probably already discovered this, but at night you can pick up most national UK stations that are on medium wave across all of W. Europe. R5 on 909 gets well into Spain at night as does Radio Cockney (a.k.a. Tawk Spawt) on 1089. Bizzarely Capital Gold from London on 1548 sends a rock solid signal south as far as Morocco. BBC W.S. is beamed east from Suffolk on 648 and gets as far as the Urals at night.
Now where's my anorak?!

 

[Hover Fly]

Or Slipknot. It's a constant battle in this house between Classic FM (Mrs G) and R4/5/ or the odd pirate for me. With Classic FM it's all that 'Beryl's on the M4 and she'd love to hear some Elgar' crap- and 'Brian's on the M6 - he really likes Beethoven'. If you turn the volume down you can actually hear the composers spinning in their graves.

Then there's "Dreary bits Smooth Classics at 7 (or is it 6 nowadays?)" You've been at work all day so now they're going to make you think you're in an undertaker's waiting room.