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[DaveCinzano]

question is,will they be getting dirk bogarde to kill hill from beyond the grave, before the first episode?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I've really been enjoying The Little World of Don Camillo. I loved the books as a child and the Radio 4 series has not disappointed at all. Great stuff.

Mon 13 Jun, 11:30 - 12:00 30 mins

Dramatisation of four of Giovanni Guareschi's stories set in a postwar Italian town, where the priest and the communist mayor battle for the hearts, minds and souls of the inhabitants.

3/4. Revenge is Sweet

When Don Camillo gloats over his football team's victory, Peppone is inclined to teach him a lesson.

Don Camillo ...... Ian Hogg
Peppone ...... Shaun Prendergast
God ...... Joss Ackland
The Bishop ...... John Moffatt
Smilzo ...... Donald McBride
Brusco ...... Trevor Fox
Mrs Peppone ...... Becky Hindley
Mrs Castellino ...... Charlie Hardwick
Captain Mancini ...... Ben Crowe
Doctor ...... Michael Eaves

Directed by Chris Wallis.


Stereo

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Oh, and the Archers is excellent at the moment as the Sanctimonious Shula gets her come-uppance.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I've really been enjoying The Little World of Don Camillo. I loved the books as a child and the Radio 4 series has not disappointed at all.

me too (i read them when i was wee as well), they really are rather evocative, and both priest and mayor have their good and bad points

the one with the bicycle-stealing tramp is my favourite

 

[DaveCinzano]

lest we forget... 'i'm sorry i haven't a clue' is on tonight, 6.30pm (repeated sunday 12.05), with barry cryer, tim brooke-taylor, sandi toksvig & tony hawkes.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

me too (i read them when i was wee as well), they really are rather evocative, and both priest and mayor have their good and bad points

the one with the bicycle-stealing tramp is my favourite

Yes that's a great one, but it's hard to pick a favourite.

 

[DaveCinzano]

true, but i think it's a good one for newbies to get into it, as the characters and situation (struggle of catholicism and communism) come through so strongly in that episode.

along with 'king street juniors', that one about the irish priest-detective (whose name excapes me, david threlfall i think plays him) and martin jarvis doing william brown, it's one of my favourite r4 things. oh, and that one with karl howman as the fella out on probation working at a community centre was always worth a listen imo

 

[Mrs Magpie]

true, but i think it's a good one for newbies to get into it, as the characters and situation (struggle of catholicism and communism) come through so strongly in that episode.

along with 'king street juniors', that one about the irish priest-detective (whose name excapes me, david threlfall i think plays him) and martin jarvis doing william brown, it's one of my favourite r4 things. oh, and that one with karl howman as the fella out on probation working at a community centre was always worth a listen imo

Father Paulo Baldi. Great stuff.
I loved King Street when James Grout was in it....which leads me neatly to 'Old Harry's Game'.....Andy Hamilton as Satan...Genius!
The Karl Howman thing was was OK, but a bit tiresome sometimes.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

lest we forget... 'i'm sorry i haven't a clue' is on tonight, 6.30pm

'Girlfriend in a Coma' to the tune of 'Tiptoe through the Tulips' was great!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Ruby Wax was great on Desert Island discs...best one I've heard for ages....when is Roy Plomley's widow going to allow the BBC to put it on the 'listen again' feature I wonder? She is the only obstacle

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Fantastic play......I'm sitting here with tears pouring down my face.


Friday 1 July

Running Away with the Hairdresser

By Helen Raynor

It's nearly a year since Catrin returned from Thailand, after a bomb in a nightclub killed her boyfriend and brought their holiday to a tragic end. Now she feels trapped in her Welsh village, but it isn't simply grief that is holding her back.

With Mali Harries, Oliver Wood, Maxine Evans, and Catrin Rhys.


Listen again link on the page below...will be there for a week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/friday_play.shtml

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Ronald Searle, creator of St. Trinians, and the man who drew Nigel Molesworth (chiz chiz) will be on Desert Island Discs this sunday (repeated the following friday).

He is an amazing man and hasn't given an interview for 30 years...what is less known about him is his wartime experiences in a POW camp.....

http://www.bmw.ukf.net/3pagodas/images/cholera_camp.jpg

 

[DaveCinzano]

He is an amazing man and hasn't given an interview for 30 years...what is less known about him is his wartime experiences in a POW camp.....

his artwork from those days is incredibly moving, and yet it is not that far removed from the st. trinian's/molesworth stuff. some of the guantanamo pictures remind me of his sketches.

an excellent draughtsman, up there with norman thelwell and leo baxendale imo.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

This looks great...


20:00 Radio 4
The Archive Hour
The Torres Strait Expedition

In 1898 an expedition to the Torres Strait, between Australia and Papua New Guinea, took along the newly invented wax cylinder phonograph to record local people and music. Led by A C Haddon, the group recorded over 50 cylinders which have now been digitally restored.

Presented by Dr Janet Topp Fargion, curator of World and Traditional Music at the British Library Sound Archive, this Archive Hour tells the story, through the sounds of the cylinders and contemporary interviews, of the year long Cambridge University expedition and the effect it had on the islanders, which continues right up to the present day.

 

[Signal 11]

Doesn't look very promising but might be of interest...

Radio 4 tonight 10.45pm - 11pm [Rptd Wed 8.45pm]:

Whatever Happened to Anarchism?

1/2. Earlier anarchist thinkers could never have imagined that the powerful nation states they hated so much would be undermined not by popular revolt, but by global corporatism.

Twenty years ago, covering an anarchist conference in Venice, journalist Wayne Brittenden became fascinated with the diversity of delegates - from Spanish Civil War veterans to squatters, ivy league professors and punk rockers. He reflects on this extraordinary event and on the heyday and potential fate of a largely forgotten political movement.

 

[STFC]

Radio 2, 8.30 tonight - The Story of the Kinks.

 

[mancboy]

Anyone got any favourite non-UK online radio they can recommend? Was in the states earlier this year and had forgotten how good the local/small scale radio is over there, esp in the cities. Unfortunately, being a dick, forgot to note callsigns for my favourite stations. Any recommendations, people?

 

[Wolfie]

Boothby Graffoe (?sp) in the evening comedy slot on Radio 4 is making me laugh at the moment

 

[madamv]

Boothby Graffoe (?sp) in the evening comedy slot on Radio 4 is making me laugh at the moment

Fabulous! Any R4 six thirty comedy does it for me.

 

[basher t]

Fabulous! Any R4 six thirty comedy does it for me.

Am just listening to 'Just A Minute' at the moment. Paul Merton does so much better than the others.
Radio 4 6:30s rule! Here are the ones coming up this week:
Tuesday - Boothby Graffoe.
Wednesday - 'Heresey' with David Baddiel.
Thursday - Dave Podmore (who he ?)
friday - The mighty Now Show

I can't understand why comedy on the radio works so well and radio drama just falls flat. Any ideas?

 

[dynamicbaddog]

Just heard a trailer on R2 for something called Absolute Power starting this week, never heard of it before but the trailer was pretty funny so I might tune in.

 

[Dante]

Absolute power is brilliant well worth a listen.

Its a way away but on September 2nd there is a R4 play with Sigourney Weaver about a former vietnam nurse coming to termswith her past

looks quite interesting
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4723941.stm

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I'm listening to this now but it's repeated on Saturday at 3:30 Radio 4....Brilliant stuff!

The Biggest Organ in the World

Tue 2 Aug, 13:30 - 14:00 30 mins

Gordon Stewart encounters the largest pipe organ in the world at the Lord and Taylor store in Philadelphia. Putting the 28,000 pipe, six keyboard, 470 stop monster instrument through its paces, he explores the amazing sounds and colours it produces and its relationship with Ladies Swimwear, Handbags and Shoes.

 

[Dante]

ooo oo ooo
Dan Dare on BBC7
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/monday/
18:00 on Mondays.
yay.

 

[Major Tom]

ooo oo ooo
Dan Dare on BBC7
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/monday/
18:00 on Mondays.
yay.

I'm not enjoying this at all - its a bit childish innit?

It's a bit of a let down after two weeks of Kraken Wakes by John wyndham.

 

[killer b]

bjork and bonny prince billy on mixing it tonight...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/mixingit/pip/w6dnj/

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Archive Hour, Radio 4 NOW
Brighton's West Pier.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Fantastic. It brought back so many happy memories but by the end I was in tears....

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Link here...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/archivehour.shtml
I think you'll be able to hear it for a week... I just lay in the bath listening and so many memories were stirred...the first Brighton Festival in 1967 with the strange sound sculptures...The Ocean Restaurant....it made me think of people I loved who are long since dead (my granny and great-granny who I lived with in Hove for a while in the 1960s).

 

[DaveCinzano]

word 4 word is part of the cross-network 'voices' season, about the english language and dialect... today's is quite interesting, lots of field recordings of people just talking. love it!

but tbh i'd rather a straight david crystal/michael rosen prog, than something headed up by a star like dermot murnaghan...