In praise of... Radio 4Extra

[GrumpyGregry]

Present helpmate in my struggle with anxiety, my atrocious SAD induced insomnia, and the lovely Helen's snoring, combined with a Roberts Stream217 DAB radio and a pair of sleepphones.

No news bulletins, hardly any strident jingles, no booming voiced continuity announcers - yes, you Neil Nunes - and, on low volume, a near perfect level of background noise to lull me to something resembling a good night's sleep.

Bliss.

 

[Mugshot]

Present helpmate in my struggle with anxiety, my atrocious SAD induced insomnia, and the lovely Helen's snoring, combined with a Roberts Stream217 DAB radio and a pair of sleepphones.

No news bulletins, hardly any strident jingles, no booming voiced continuity announcers - yes, you Neil Nunes and, on low volume, a near perfect level of background noise to lull me to something resembling a good nights sleep.

Bliss.

It's fabulous, that's all, fabulous.
I do have one teeny criticism, sometimes I'll catch a show in the morning as I'm coming to, and then it's repeated again that evening, and sometimes if I'm really unlucky, the following morning again too.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Yep, the repeating the repeats needs sorting.

 

[Dave 123]

I can only reiterate what's been said. (Repeat)
i always seem to switch on in exactly the place as when I heard it the first time round.

 

[Mugshot]

It's a petty thing, but sometimes it feels like I've heard Ed Reardon's Week three times on the trot.

 

[Mark Grant]

I suffer with tinitus and sometimes when I wake in the night and everything is so quiet the tinitus is even more pronounced.
I have the radio next to my bed tuned to R4 Extra with headphones already plugged in. It is enough to cover the ringing whilst I drift back to the land of nod.
However, I have been known to wake at the start of a radio play and then stay awake listening to the end.

 

[colly]

I listen during the day when I have had enough of shouty shouty 5live or R4 bods being pompous. Neither station is bad, I love R4, but sometimes......................y'know?

 

[Mugshot]

However, I have been known to wake at the start of a radio play and then stay awake listening to the end.

And it's always the long ones!!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

And it's always the long ones!!

or the really scary ones!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I suffer with tinitus and sometimes when I wake in the night and everything is so quiet the tinitus is even more pronounced.
I have the radio next to my bed tuned to R4 Extra with headphones already plugged in. It is enough to cover the ringing whilst I drift back to the land of nod.
However, I have been known to wake at the start of a radio play and then stay awake listening to the end.

If you have not tried them SleepPhones are amazing, though I have fedback that 1.5m of cable isn't enough.

 

[Mugshot]

or the really scary ones!

There's was one on a few months ago that was particularly harrowing. My granddaughter (she's 6) was staying over, she has her own inflatable bed thing that she has at the end of my bed when she's over, I swear every time the scares reached fever pitch she'd kick my bed!! I was just glad I had a quilt handy to hide under.

 

[colly]

SleepPhones are amazing

I thought they were a device for maybe quieting tinitus, seems not, but they do look interesting.

I've always had tinitus but only realised later in life. I just thought that was the way things were. I can't say it keeps me awake and I only notice it now and again. Like now for instance when I'm thinking about it. Sometimes a single loud note will creep in unexpectedly.
Right now I have a loud hissing, like an air hose is leaking nearby.

 

[EltonFrog]

I download loads of stuff from 4 extra and listen to it in the car, love it, there's some fab programs and no inane presenters .

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Present helpmate in my struggle with anxiety, my atrocious SAD induced insomnia, and the lovely Helen's snoring, combined with a Roberts Stream217 DAB radio and a pair of sleepphones.

No news bulletins, hardly any strident jingles, no booming voiced continuity announcers - yes, you Neil Nunes - and, on low volume, a near perfect level of background noise to lull me to something resembling a good night's sleep.

Bliss.

It's a let's hide from R4, isn't it? Neil Nunes gets me simply by the way he mispronounces his name ''Newness''. BBC Schools is torture (by failed teachers pretending to be actors or failed actors pretending to be teachers,no idea which, it's anybody's guess) and even when you switch to the World Service those Newsday twerps unable to announce the pair of presenters' names in English and that slightly (but just too slightly) out of tune synthesised trumpet fanfare. And R4's riddled with repeats anyway.

 

[Hill Wimp]

If you have not tried them SleepPhones are amazing, though I have fedback that 1.5m of cable isn't enough.

I bought some of the wireless ones for @Fab Foodie for his birthday. He used them for the first time last night and he now has a big smile on his face.

I have to say he didn't seem to snore as much and was certainly more settled and less figity.