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[Mrs Magpie]

I liked that a lot too, agree about Murnaghan though.

 

[Wolfie]

Street and Lane By Dave Sheasby and Ian McMillan.

on now (friday 11.30)

it's great and it's got Fine Time Fontayne in it!

 

[trashpony]

Two recommendations for you:

From Arial to Wide Latin
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/arial_widelatin
download from Listen Again. For all you typography nerds, a history of the font, with an interview with the marvellous Neville Brody.

World in your Ear tomorrow (Friday) lunchtime, Radio 4, 1.30pm - a review of radio reporting from across the world, including local stations, of Hurricane Katrina - promises to be interesting.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Available for one week only on the listen again feature

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/one_night_only

A really lovely little programme about Flanders and Swann. Me and Blind lemon were soggy with nostalgia.

 

[DaveCinzano]

A really lovely little programme about Flanders and Swann.

that the double act with the fella in the massive fur coat, as 'done' by the colditz escapees?

 

[Wolfie]

no bristle - that's Flanagan and Allen - (Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen) - a different thing altogether.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

No, I think that must have been Flanagan and Allen (underneath the arches, the Crazy Gang etc) one of them had a big coat.

Flanders and Swann were; big beardy bloke in a wheelchair brilliant lyricist, small frightened owl called Donald Swann on piano, very funny songs.

 

[DaveCinzano]

aha - ta

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I've quoted Flanders and Swann on these very boards, and posted up Michael Flanders's monologue about a henge on here too.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Cracking Saturday play...Nick Fisher does good whodunnits...and, the woman playing Mrs Davies was (and possibly still is when resting) a classroom assistant in my two youngest kids school and is responsible for helping loads of Brixton kids learning to read

14:30 The Saturday Play
Speed and Silver: In Stained Blood

By Nick Fisher.

Eager, young Detective Sergeant Sue Silver is assigned to work with maverick Detective Chief Inspector Jamie Speed who doesn't seem to want her or anyone else's help.

On their first murder case involving a severed hand, arcane notes in biblical language and a high class call girl, their new working partnership is bound to be severely tested.

DCI Jamie Speed ...... Jonathan Cullen
DS Sue Silver ...... Lucy Speed
Superintendent Collinson ...... Stephen Grief
Jim ...... Stuart McQuarrie
Daniel ...... Ben Crowe
Mrs Davies ...... Maggie McCarthy
Desk Sergeant ...... Nina Wadia
Superintendent Naylor ...... Michael Gould
Mrs Collinson ...... Geraldine Newman
Vicar ...... Michael Simkins

Directed by Deborah Paige.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I hope it can be listened to again. I'm on the edge of my seat here!

 

[Wolfie]

I heard a bit in the middle of it and it sounded really good - I decided to go out for a walk as I'd missed the beginning, rather than hear the end - I assumed it would be on listen again - it better bloody well be!

 

[DaveCinzano]

a good looking cast (apart from the bloody ubiquitous nina wadia )

 

[oi2002]

Weak At The Top amused me.

 

[TeeJay]

If you want something a bit different - a mix of chilled out and upbeat african-cuba-brazilian-portugese music:
Radio do Canal Angola (Luanda)

But right now I'm listening to: Scratch ...dub, reggae, rocksteady & ska

It has really cool music/playlist and the website is really nice. I like this page which shows the locations of all today's listeners - listed by country/area.

Well worth a look & listen!

 

[citydreams]

I'm sure they mentioned 7-up on Frontrow last night, but I can't find it on the schedule.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Old Harry's Game is back on the 20th of September, 6:30pm on Tuesdays BBC Radio 4. Dunno if it's a new series or a repeat, but either way I'm pleased.

 

[lang rabbie]

Radio 4 smartens up!

Milton's "Paradise Lost" is this week's Book at Bedtime (10.45-11.00)

read by Ian McDiarmid , introduced by Philip Pullman (not so sure)

Monday 26 September - The first appearance of Satan, the description of Hell, and his resolution to fight back.

Tuesday 27 September - The decision to destroy the new world God has created, the activities of the devils in hell, and the first journey of Satan across the waste.

Wednesday 28 September - Satan's and our first glimpse of the happy innocence and beauty of Adam and Eve.

Thursday 29 September - Raphael's account of the creation of the Earth and its creatures.

Friday 30 September - Satan's temptation of Eve and her first taste of the fruit

On Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost

When I beheld the Poet blind, yet bold,
In slender Book his vast Design unfold,
Messiah Crown'd, Gods Reconcil'd Decree,
Rebelling Angels, the Forbidden Tree,
Heav'n, Hell, Earth, Chaos, All; the Argument
Held me a while misdoubting his Intent,
That he would ruine (for I saw him strong)
The sacred Truths to Fable and old Song,
(So Sampson groap'd the Temples Posts in spight)
The World o'rewhelming to revenge his Sight.
Yet as I read, soon growing less severe,
I lik'd his Project, the success did fear;
Through that wide Field how he his way should find
O're which lame Faith leads Understanding blind;
Lest he perplext the things he would explain,
And what was easie he should render vain.
Or if a Work so infinite he spann'd,
Jealous I was that some less skilful hand
(Such as disquiet alwayes what is well,
And by ill imitating would excell)
Might hence presume the whole Creations day
To change in Scenes, and show it in a Play.
Pardon me, Mighty Poet, nor despise
My causeless, yet not impious, surmise.
But I am now convinc'd, and none will dare
Within thy Labours to pretend a Share.
Thou hast not miss'd one thought that could be fit,
And all that was improper dost omit:
So that no room is here for Writers left,
But to detect their Ignorance or Theft.
That Majesty which through thy Work doth Reign
Draws the Devout, deterring the Profane.
And things divine thou treats of in such state
As them preserves, and Thee in violate.
At once delight and horrour on us seize,
Thou singst with so much gravity and ease;
And above humane flight dost soar aloft,
With Plume so strong, so equal, and so soft.
The Bird nam'd from that Paradise you sing
So never Flags, but alwaies keeps on Wing.
Where couldst thou Words of such a compass find?
Whence furnish such a vast expense of Mind?
Just Heav'n Thee, like Tiresias, to requite,
Rewards with Prophesie thy loss of Sight.
Well might thou scorn thy Readers to allure
With tinkling Rhime, of thy own Sense secure;
While the Town-Bays writes all the while and spells,
And like a Pack-Horse tires without his Bells.
Their Fancies like our bushy Points appear,
The Poets tag them; we for fashion wear.
I too transported by the Mode offend,
And while I meant to Praise thee, must Commend.
Thy verse created like thy Theme sublime,
In Number, Weight, and Measure, needs not Rhime.

 

[London_Calling]

Just a mention for the wonderful BBC Radio Player, I've now changed my whole way of using radio; don't care about times or days, I just have a list of stuff to get through during a week, and tick 'em off one-by-one whenever it suits.

It's kind of like having a vid/DVD record everything that's on telly, and then you pick your faves to watch when you want.

Luv it, luv it, luv it.


One more thing . . . the never mentioned BBC Radio 7 - very different, pretty interesting.

 

[shandy]

Eamonn Holmes, Magic 105.4 London, 4pm till 7pm on Sundays

Magic 105.4 London

"Genial Ulsterman Eamonn’s love of music may not be the first thing people associate him with. He recently appeared on Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes as Johnny Cash and says, “I love my iPod and just flicking through everything from Alanis Morissette to Drum 'n Bass, Death Metal, Afro-Beat to Maroon 5. I particularly love Johnny Cash's cover of 'Hurt' - 'the needle tears a hole' is a lyric that really moves me." Eamonn is on from 4pm till 7pm on Sundays."

 

[pooka]

Book of the Week Radio 4: John McGahern reading Memoir. Heartbreaking stuff

 

[DJ Bigga]

Nitro 99.1fm

 

[chio]

Nitro 99.1fm

Why? What makes it any different from the fifty other band-clogging pirates?

 

[DJ Bigga]

Why? What makes it any different from the fifty other band-clogging pirates?

Well the first and most important is, I'm on it!
Secondly I have been using my not considerable influence to move the station in a much more 'inclusive' direction.
Third, It's not 'just another pirate station Nitro is genuinly interested in becoming a part of and indeed being a benefit for the community.

B

 

[sovietpop]

which community?

 

[DJ Bigga]

which community?

The Community of London, why? That post sounds loaded to me, surely better to unburden yourself rather than let it fester?

 

[oi2002]

Jared diamond has a new book out Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.

Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an eco-meltdown is often the main catalyst, he argues, particularly when combined with society's response to (or disregard for) the coming disaster.

He talked about it at Berkely recentry and some of it is on podcast at KPFA.

 

[DOA]

http://www.rbnlive.com/

US current affairs.

 

[somemusic]

Brixton's new community radio station playvybz.com

Hey everybody point your mice at www.playvybz.com thursday through sunday we are a new community internet station in the heart of Brixton operating in a rub a dub style .

Check out my show this saturday afternoon 1-3pm

MATT GOLD A.K.A. MR GOLD

Personal profile : Long time Brixton resident and music lover Mr Gold has been mashing up dancefloors across the capital for the last decade playing a mix of funk, soul, reggae ,hip hop and beyond, as well as running a recording studio catering for local up and coming talent.

Musical Profile : Expect quality across a wide range of musical genres, old and new, known and unknown, audio nourishment for the soul, aural excitement for the mind and rump shaking bass for your booty!!!!


Mr Gold's Show 1-3pm Saturday afternoons on playvybz.com
Where the music takes a front seat!

 

[oi2002]

The Redemption of Michael Brown

On Open Source I just experienced some real American know how combinng the mediums of radio blog. On the subject of the former director of FEMA damned after Katrina and now washed of some sin by his candor they asked:

Help us write the script. Below is an act-by-act synopsis; as you post to this thread, please do so in the form of lines from a stage or screenplay.

Listen to the results on The Redemption of Michael Brown the best was not from the script writer of the West Wing but from a poster:

Act III, Scene One: our little man is holding the mirror, gazing into it despairingly.

Brown: “A hell of a job, Brownie.” A hell of a job?! Could he really be that obtuse? Or was he mocking me - could he really be that subtle? He wrote my epigram as he signed my death warrant, speaking those six words. How is it that the foul effluvia of failure do not, will not stick to that man? How such an obviously false declaration reflects poorly not on him, but on me? By those words I will be remembered, by their hollow meaning and the howls of outrage that followed, and not by any of my deeds. Could he have known how neatly he skewered me with his praise? Or was it another of his lucky missteps? It doesn’t matter - I will have my revenge, I will have my say, and I will wash this blood from my hands, if it takes the rest of my life, or his…