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[Throbbing Angel]

Controlling the Unaccountable Algorithm - 27/12/2016 - @bbcradio4 Controlling the Unaccountable Algorithm - BBC Radio 4

Available for 3 days, very interesting

 

[chainsawjob]

This was rather enjoyable, focusing on non-English language hip hop, mainly Icelandic, several genuinely funny moments.

BBC Radio 4 - Mark Steel Does Hip Hop

 

[chainsawjob]

Just caught the last half of Ramblings with Clare Balding (not usually a fan). She was walking with a group of refugees and students from START (Students and Refugees Together) in Plymouth. Rather uplifting about the benefits of walking for these refugees who have come to the UK, and some lovely words from the social workers running it about what their aims are, and dispelling some of the misconceptions about refugees and what help they get.

BBC Radio 4 - Ramblings, Series 35, Mount Edgcumbe, Plymouth

 

[Libertad]

Just caught the last half of Ramblings with Clare Balding (not usually a fan). She was walking with a group of refugees and students from START (Students and Refugees Together) in Plymouth. Rather uplifting about the benefits of walking for these refugees who have come to the UK, and some lovely words from the social workers running it about what their aims are, and dispelling some of the misconceptions about refugees and what help they get.

BBC Radio 4 - Ramblings, Series 35, Mount Edgcumbe, Plymouth

I heard that too, uplifting was exactly what I thought.

 

[lizzieloo]

BBC Radio Wales - When Acid Reigned: The Story of Operation Julie

 

[lizzieloo]

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Late Night Woman's Hour: Viv Albertine

Late night woman's hour doesn't make your teeth hurt like daytime women's hour.

 

[Libertad]

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Late Night Woman's Hour: Viv Albertine

Late night woman's hour doesn't make your teeth hurt like daytime women's hour.

That was excellent! (((Viv)))

 

[redsquirrel]

Joan Bakewell has written a play, Keeping in Touch, partly based on her and Pinter's relationship, which he used as the inspiration for Betrayal. Both are on R4 at the moment - Keeping in Touch, Betrayal

Not had a chance to listen to either yet so I don't know either is any good.

 

[Ralph Llama]

BBC Radio Wales - When Acid Reigned: The Story of Operation Julie

I dropped acid in that cottage (amazing trip)
Also I used to go to school/go raving with their kids

 

[Throbbing Angel]

David Bowie's 'Heroes' 40th Anniversary - 10/10/2017 - @BBCRadio2
David Bowie's 'Heroes' 40th Anniversary - BBC Radio 2

Frankenstein Lives!
Frankenstein Lives!, Seriously... - BBC Radio 4

I have heard the mermaids singing
BBC Radio 4 Extra - I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing

The Medium is the Message
BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, The Medium Is the Message

 

[lizzieloo]

This is comedy gold, really worth a listen

"Across Britain, thousands of people have stopped paying council tax, water rates and speeding fines. They think they have the law on their side, thanks to the 1215 Magna Carta treaty between King John and the Barons. They argue that the present Queen has breached her obligations under the treaty and so has in effect deposed herself and even become a traitor. As a result, all laws passed by parliament are invalid, the courts are shams, and government officials are imposters. Instead, they swear an oath of allegiance to a group of members of the House of Lords."

BBC Radio 4 - Out of the Ordinary, Series 6, The Queen's Enemies

 

[Chz]

Bookclub archive - Douglas Adams discusses THHGTTG

 

[shambler]

Decent adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles available at the moment

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Powers of Evil

Also a friend recommended Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I've only heard episode one so far and it is beautifully narrated.

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Episode 1

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Archive on 4 - Don't Panic! It's The Douglas Adams Papers - @bbcradio4
BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Don't Panic! It's The Douglas Adams Papers

 

[sealion]

Stories from people that work on the Cardiff to Swansea valleys railway, editor 's neck of woods
BBC Radio 4 - On and Off the Valley Lines, Change

 

[hippogriff]

on the 50th anniversary

The King and Kennedy Assassinations: If the Dead Could Speak

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, The King and Kennedy Assassinations: If the Dead Could Speak

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Anatomy of an Investigation - Part 1 - @bbcradioscot
BBC Radio Scotland - Anatomy of an Investigation, Part 1

 

[lizzieloo]

John Lewis-Stempel - The Wood (Omnibus)

BBC Radio 4 Extra - John Lewis-Stempel - The Wood (Omnibus)

ETA: Mr loo recommended this to me so I put it here cos he's usually right, I'm not so sure, it's a bit twee, maybe it's his voice, or the music because this subject matter should be right up my alley.

 

[Mordi]

Benjamin Zephaniah is reading autobiography for book of the week on R4.

Good listen. Added the book to my pile.

 

[MrSki]

Benjamin Zephaniah is reading autobiography for book of the week on R4.

Good listen. Added the book to my pile.

Proper geezer.

 

[mauvais]

The BBC has a new app, BBC Sounds.

Introducing the first version of BBC Sounds

...

 

[kittyP]

BBC Radio 4 - The Cult of Aphex Twin

Listened to this today.
Very good.
Made me weirdly emotional (not that it takes much these days )

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Takes a few minutes to get going but this Sam Simmonds 15mins show is good one. Generally comedy on R4 is dire so this was super refreshing. Apologies to Okra....

Sam Simmonds in not a people person

 

[JJ50]

The only programme, apart from the news, to which I listen on the radio is The Archers on Radio 4. I have been listening to that longest running soap opera since it began in 1951 when I was a year old.

 

[ginger_syn]

When Jeremy hardy spoke to the nation, on radio four now or iplayer.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

I’ve been revisiting and filling in gaps with some classic British literature recently thanks to BBCR4.

The Turn of the Screw
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Wuthering Heights
Silas Marner
Kidnapped

Loads more. Unabridged straightforward readings, no music or dramatics.

BBC Sounds - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Silas Marner by George Eliot - Chapter 1 - BBC Sounds
BBC Sounds - Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Etc. In the Drama: classics/period section of the Sounds app.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Happened across this, very good, miss him still.
Sean's Last Show - BBC Sounds

 

[Mordi]

I just finished listening to the radio adaptation of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate which was first broadcast back in 2011 and is now back up along with a new adaptation of Stalingrad which is a mere two hours long. It packs quite a punch, although at certain times I'm not sure if the plummy radio 4 accents are supposed to be reflections of characters petit bourgeois backgrounds or just reflections of the bourgy BBC.

I'm dead chuffed because I only heard about the adaptation a few months ago and tried to find a torrent or mirror of it somewhere to no avail, so nice of Radio 4 to do me a solid. I'm not one for radio drama (I'm sure I've heard good afternoon plays but their memory seems to have been pushed out by all the terrible ones) but this is fantastic.

 

[a_chap]

The serialisation of "Dark Matter" has been thoroughly entertaining.

If anyone wants to listen to a terrific ghost story over Christmas you'll enjoy this:

BBC Radio 4 - Dark Matter - Episode guide

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Five tales by the celebrated American crime and psychological novelist and short story writer, Patricia Highsmith.
BBC Radio 4 Extra - Short Works - Available now

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