To ask if anyone uses the ‘dial’ ‘analogue’ radios anymore ?

Dial radio upstairs for alarm its always on radio 4. Looks like a dial radio but it’s not downstairs again on radio 4. Computer sometimes used for radio, radio 4 again, usually so I can catch the part I missed on one of the other radios because I went out the room. Oh dial radio at work too with radio 4 on. I like radio 4

Yes, I have several radios. One of them is on all day, and the one in the bedroom all night. I couldn't live without them. I can't even have a shower without listening to the radio. Mind you, I'm very old school - I watch DVDs and play CDs too, and even use a film camera. 😀

I have a small dial radios in every room, little hand size. I love them.
I flit between a few stations.
Love the radio.

Yes..mine in bathroom

I do, I had a little project some years back when I decided I needed a radio in every room of my house so I could move around the house without missing whatever I was listening too. They all still work but I never have to change settings since they are all tuned to R4.

My bedside clock radio is analogue and has been waking me most days for about 40 years. Radio one as a teen, radio 4 now. DD has a slightly more modern one but it's still analogue. We've got a DAB one in the kitchen which is better sound quality. I like the randomness of what I listen to. If I didn't have live radio I would be very ignorant about current affairs and there are all sorts of interesting things that I learn about by chance. I like podcasts but I can never decide what to listen to. It's much simpler just to press the 'on' switch of my radio.

I've got an FM/MW/LW/SW radio but it's strictly for shit-hits-the-fan scenarios. It's more that I don't listen to radio though. If I did, maybe it would be analogue.

That can be read in more than one way 😂

Wish I had one that worked off batteries during the recent power cut. Usually listen on TV or laptop now. Defo getting a little analogue portable now!

Ahhhh, Sing Something Slowed Down. I swear they could have made the Ace of Spades sound depressing

Yes , all the time. I might use BBC Sounds a couple of times a weeI but mostly it's a radio tuned to R4.. Not dial though, strip across the top and a knob to locate the station.

@MuddlingMackem "275, 285 and stereo VHF" as the jingle - don't forget that bit.

Aaaah!!! Yes! I'd forgotten the bit about stereo VHF!

Did you always catch the end of Sing Something Simple after retuning to VHF for the chart countdown on Sundays. 🙂

Some of us had parents who insisted we listened to Sing Something Simple in its hideous entirety, every Sunday in Summer, when we would go for a 'drive' with grandparents or other relatives, and have a picnic tea at a local beauty spot or stately home. NIGHTMARE MEMORIES! 😬

My 13 year old. No idea why.

I use FM as well as DAB in the car.

I also have a working crystal set somewhere

Yes, we have one in the kitchen. We have Alexas in other rooms, but I like to keep my battery powered normal radio in the kitchen. No fussing with WiFi and don't need a plug socket.

Me, I do.
One in the kitchen I was given for Christmas 1983, a kind of boom box one.
And one in the bathroom, not sure how old that is.

Growing up, my dad would always listen to the radio 4 news, which usually coincided with tea time so we all had to listen too. I groaned at the time, but looking back I think it was a good thing.

I only use an analogue radio at work (where I tried to change the channel but sadly found my workplace is in a bit of a radio blackspot and my preferred channels don't work there so have to put up with the one channel that does work well), and on shorter journeys in the car, when I can't be bothered to connect my phone and put on absolute radio 90s

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Aaah, the wavelength jingles! I still remember 275 to 285 being Radio

"275, 285 and stereo VHF" as the jingle - don't forget that bit.

Did you always catch the end of Sing Something Simple after retuning to VHF for the chart countdown on Sundays. 🙂

I still have a 1988 vintage ghetto blaster upstairs for the radio and a late 90s vintage radio / CD player in the kitchen for the radio.

We have an old Roberts one that was a wedding present before digital ones really took off. It looks lovely but has too volumes: inaudible and deafening. It lives in the bathroom now and I use it when I'm in the shower.

Yep, we have one in the kitchen and listen to the radio 4 news at 7-8am and 5/6pm. I find it better quality than via my bbc sounds phone app (which I listen to upstairs).

it's digital rather than dial, but like OP I listen to everything via alexa or my phone, and my broadband died last week and took a few days to get sorted. Bought a cheap FM radio as an alternative to using up all my mobile data - ultra frustrating, but at least I could still have R4 on.
I was surprised at how cheaply DAB radios are now, £20 in Argos- but equally aware of how many expensive DAB radios I've purchased over the years that have just stopped working - old dial radios and transistors used to go on forever

I still have an old analogue radio/CD player in the kitchen, but I very rarely use it. The problem is, I invariably switch it on halfway through a programme, or miss a bit when I go to answer the door etc. So I prefer to listen to radio programmes or podcasts via my phone, right from the beginning, and rewind if I miss a bit.

It isn't very eco though.

Aaah, the wavelength jingles! I still remember 275 to 285 being Radio 1(yikes, prior to FM when I was listening to it!) and 88 to 91 FM Radio 2. But I have no idea where Radio Four is, even though that's the station I listen to. It's never had a jingle!

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