about anal sex on Radio 4?

[Mintyy]

I'm a bit at todays afternoon play ... and I might be pissed off if I had a preschooler at home with me asking "what is anal sex mummy".

oh no mintyy no one wants anal on a Monday afternoon in the car. very very bad taste.

you see you need to change to radio 5 live it's all news and other stuff, no music or adverts, no sport until 7 pm
so that's fine.

no Anal as far as I know.

Radio 4 is pure filth.

From
Mrs Trellis.

Oh I can't be doing with Richard Bacon I'm afraid, TheBody.

My 82 year old dm listens to R4 all day long and we often discuss it. I'm driving down to spend the day with her on Friday ... what do you reckon I should say? Hey Ma, what did you think of the anal sex play on Monday?

No point in complaining though. I complained about the language in their play the other week and the response was effectively that they don't care. They say that the number of young people that are around is negligible, that they don't have a watershed and that they want their writers to be able to produce something authentic without too many constraints.

I can't tell you the relief to open this thread and find out it's not about Helen and Rob

I also think it's filthy. There seems to be an effort to make it mainstream, but it's not healthy and I hope it is never accepted as on a par with other ways of having sex. I bloody well hope my children never get sodomized!

YABU. Radio 4 does not have a watershed. It's not a children's channel. They usually try to avoid overly adult content in the school holidays. While anal sex might perhaps be unhygienic, if it's between consenting adults its not 'dirty'.

I didn't hear this play (and don't particularly think I'll be hunting it out on the website) but you can usually tell what direction a play is taking in time to turn it off.

Gosh, doesn't seem like it fits with the shipping forecast and Women's Hour!
Er...have you actually listened to Women's Hour this century?

Do they still do the shipping forecast? I have fond memories of falling asleep to that on long car journeys as a child. It was very sophorific.

yes, they still do the shipping forecast. Times etc here. The other weekend it was read by Neil Nunes -sheer poetry.

dirty/unhygienic/dirty/unhygienic/dirty/unhygienic - its all the same to me.

But thanks for the education re. lack of watershed on Radio 4. I wasn't aware of that.

Was it called Chiwawa?

Mintyy - the terms 'dirty' and 'filthy' are often used in a sexual context to denote distaste nothing to do with actual dirt. That's how I thought it was being applied in this thread.

Gardeners Question Time is probably the dirtiest show on the radio if we're using the word in a straightforward literal manner.

Minty Why do you assume , to paraphrase Larkin , anal sex was invented in 1963?

Eh?

Why assume your mother will be shocked?

Phillip Larkin-Annus Mirabilis

"Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) –
Between the end of the Chatterley ban ?
And the Beatles’ first LP"

yes Richard Bacon is a pill to be fair but love the others. Vic Derbyshire and Nick Campbell?

Ah Mintty missed that but they were talking about masturbation on woman's hour the other day...
Was relieved my Dc were at school - don't mind conversations like that but can you imagine in the car on the way to the dentist etc - no time to deal the subject properly
And when I googled to find out when it was exactly apparently there was outrage when they discussed in in 2011 too!
I got caught out with the play on Sat afternoon when DD1 was about 5 - changing tapes , switched to radio just as someone screamed 'you bastard'...in my surprise I dropped the tape, faffed around long enough for them to call someone a 'shit' ...
Now DD1 insists on listening to Radio 1 - thank god - nothing anywhere like as dodgy on there!

Has there been anal sex on the Archers yet?

Can't be long now.

oh and mark curmode film review.

I was brought up on radio 4 and loved it but it's gitba bit up
it's own London centric arse for me. ooh topical!

Richard Bacon is awful. I still miss Simon Mayo.

Thebody I don't think radio 4 is London centric at all anymore - since they moved production to Salford it seems to me that's very North-West-centric...

miaow that's what I was really surprised about - on Woman's hour they gave a warning one morning about a woman talking about prostitution being quite graphic and I didn't think it was really.

Then another day launched into the discussion of whether masturbation in a relationship was normal ...with no warning (unless I missed it!)....something about an email from one of our listeners and then read it out (healthy sex live, walk in on partner masturbating etc) .... then went on to discuss masturbation to porn, vibrators etc. The thought of having to explain what all those were in one possibly necessarily short conversation to a 5yr old - or even a 10yr old - or hitting the off switch and making it shameful...
FGS this is Radio 4 in the morning ... it might be all about trying to break down taboos etc but I really wish they wouldn't bother...

Actually thinking about it my mother used to listen to Radio 4 and I remember a discussion of whether Jesus was homosexual and asking my mum what that meant. She just said it meant a man who loved other men rather than women or a woman who loved other women etc...so I got the concept. But she didn't need to go into the details of the mechanics etc which would have done nothing but confuse me...

Maybe at 46 I'm too old and prudish for the new Radio 4 ...