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[citydreams]

Wednesday's Afternoon Play on Radio4.

Love Contract

By Mike Bartlett

Many companies ask staff to declare their office love affairs to guard against break-up fallout. Emma battles to hang on to her dignity in a series of increasingly bizarre interviews with her manager.

Emma ...... Claire Rushbrook
Manager ...... Ellie Haddington

Directed by Claire Grove.

Black comedy at it's best.

 

[dynamicbaddog]

Bay City Babylon!

tonight at 8 Radio 2, heard a trailer for this earlier on sounds like it might be cool
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/doc_baycitybabylon.shtml

Mark Lamarr examines the epic tale of the Bay City Rollers - from their mid-1970’s domination of pop music, through their self destruction, the small matter of their missing millions and their abiding hatred for each other

 

[soonplus]

escape pod podcast ....essentially scifi short stories read into a mic, some are shite ssome are pretty fanatastic.......
http://escapepod.org/

 

[Bakunin]

Planet Rock Radio, for all lovers of classic rock, available on DAB and online.

And it has a certain Alice Cooper doing the breakfast show.

 

[May Kasahara]

Heard a fantastic programme on R4 earlier, about lullabyes - you can listen again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/pip/rt4cz/

 

[mango5]

Dread, Beat an Blood, Radio 4 tomorrow

Tuesday 21st 11.30am-midday R4

Benjamin Zephaniah reassesses dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson's 1978 debut album. Dread Beat an' Blood expressed the black British experience as it had never been heard before.

Yes please.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

The Charles Wheeler documentaries this week have been fantastic. On in the morning and repeated at night. Still available on 'Listen Again'

www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/charles_wheeler_season.shtml

 

[zygote]

Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone BBC6 Music every Sunday 5pm-8pm weird stuff, well worth a listen.

 

[avu9lives]

After having enjoyed tuning into 96.2fm "the revolution" for the last 3 years i'm sad, at the loss of all the guys there, I'm even missing sarah and the rest of the twenty second news review
I feel such loss, and emptiness ! part of me has become hmhhh
What have they done? : (
I will really miss the comps, chats, personalities bigger than life caracetyres (sp)
To think I never accepted the offer : (

You would not beleive what is happening it defies beleif
RIP

 

[killer b]

just found this ace looking blog of radio 4 stuff to download...

http://speechification.com/

 

[zygote]

Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone BBC6 Music every Sunday 5pm-8pm weird stuff, well worth a listen.

...and just like they do with all the programmes I like (well only Late Junction really) they've made it fuckin' shorter.

Now it starts @ 5.30pm

 

[miniGMgoit]

Theres an excellent radio station over here in Melbourne called Triple R. You can stream it from here

 

[5t3IIa]

Anyone listening to Today at around 0830 this morning? They had Clement Freud and Stanley Johnson talking about being called 'elderly'.

CF: One thing about getting old is you lose your memory...
Today: ...*encouragingnoise*
CF: and another thing about getting old is you lose your memory.

Cheap gag but his timing is flawless

 

[Maltin]

A celebration of Clement Freud hosted by Paul Merton, with many clips from Just a Minute.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kjhxb

 

[komodo]

Down the Line -radio 4 - right now -very very funny

 

[Missez]

Interesting lecture on Radio 4 right now

Prof Michael Sandel considers the expansion and moral limits of markets.

 

[5t3IIa]

The 'new' Just A Minute starts tonight I think.

 

[bmd]

I found this show through the Dub Vendor link ringo posted on the Reggae video thread, it's well worth a listen.

Keith Lawrence on Colourful Radio.

 

[5t3IIa]

Woman's Hour about rape jokes at the mo...

 

[5t3IIa]

Phil Jupitas does Calvin and Hobbes on Radio 4 at 1130am today, 22 September.

 

[8115]

The Rap Revolution: How Hip Hop Conquered The World
Saturday 10 October
10:00pm - 11:00pm
BBC Radio 2

It had Goldie on it, it looks like it could be good, it's a two-part program.

 

[8115]

You and yours today was about energy policy, it was quite interesting (what I caught) and I think it should be on i-player.

 

[5t3IIa]

Oooh lovely Kate Humble on Woman's Hour

 

[kittyP]

The 'new' Just A Minute starts tonight I think.

This has been making my Monday evenings much more happy and cosy.

The Flight of the Conchords, episode one, was on Radio 7 and now on the iPlayer.

 

[8115]

Amazing World Service documentary about the Bhopal tragedy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0053sqn/Assignment_Bhopal_An_Enduring_Tragedy/

Really interesting and well made.

 

[stethoscope]

St Agnes Place might be no longer, but it's one-time in-house radio station Wireless FM can still be found here with some regular internet shows and lots of archived sets in the forum.

 

[sojourner]

Radio 2 - a series by Richard Hawley about how the ocean has influenced music/musicians. It's called The Ocean, and first episode is currently on listen-again

Thanks for reminding me where this thread was Crispeh

 

[sojourner]

Radio 4 at 11.30 this morning - something I'm looking forward to:

11:30–12:00
Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern American Literature
Divided States

3/8. Mark Lawson traces how American writers have explored violent divisions in their society.

 

[sojourner]

^ oooo Toni Morrison AND David Simon

 

[stethoscope]

A few things that have caught my eye for this week:


Portraying the Poor (1/2)
Sunday 28th Feb 1.30PM on Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qyw6y

Paul Mason investigates accounts of poverty and working-class life created by middle-class writers.

Ballad of the Miners' Strike
Tuesday 3rd Mar 10.30PM on Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r33b2

Commissioned to mark its 25th anniversary, musicians providing a backdrop to a tapestry of archive clips, testimonials from miners and their wives, and songs which creates a portrait of the most significant industrial dispute in living British history.