To ask for your BBC Sounds recommendations

[Annabella92]

I have a fair bit of cleaning to do today and have been enjoying some BBC Sounds content, BBC Ulster in particular had a great wee programme about a haunting and a house that vanished. I also enjoyed a recent one on Lord Lucan. I feel like I might have exhausted BBC Sounds by now though - what am I missing? What have you enjoyed?

I just assumed it was poor signal but it does that for me too. And none.of the suggestions I've had on this thread come up when I'm browsing for something to watch on the app

Brilliant thank you

I've heard all of those, they were great

Interesting, just listening through the website?

Oh I listened to that it was good!

I tried listening to this but gave up in frustration because they spoke too slowly and kept repeating stuff - is it worth revisiting or can I be dead cheeky and ask about some of the odd details that came out?

Some great stuff here I wouldn't never have stumbled upon in the app, thank you

Heard a trailer for The Gift, meant to go back to that

Going to try some of these. If you like spooky, The Witch Farm was fantastic, and the Battersea Poltergeist (both same guy as Uncanny but whole series on one case, with dramatisation of events)

My most listened to thing is John Finnemores Souvenir programme if you like comedy - totally my comfort listen (you can probably tell I'm a bit stressed if you catch me listening to that or a Jane Austen audiobook!). Other good comedy : The Confessional, Dead Ringers, Mark Watson Talks a bit about life, mark steels in town, That Mitchell and Webb sound.

Factual stuff that's been good : The Coming Storm, Things fell apart, Shreds: Murder in the Dock, Vishal, the Shamima Begum story. And You're dead to me.

Assume Nothing: A Belfast Haunting

And Limelight: The House that Vanished, they were good!

So many great suggestions! Thank you all!

Insisted sit a great one recently - think it was The Crime Next Door and was a series about a double murder in a remote Welsh farm; Death on the Farm. It was kind of heartbreaking but very good.

Also, “Who Killed Emma?” “ Sweet Bonny” and the Hampstead Child Abuse Hoax.

Ok, I think most of mine have been mentioned, but I don’t really listen to
music only podcasts so I have about a million:

It’s a fair cop - hilarious stand up by Policeman on sabbatical Alfie Moore

Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classical - amazing funny stand up about classical literature, etc.

A curious history of your home - one of the best things I’ve ever heard. History of every day objects with Ruth Goodman

You’re Dead to Me - Always amazing

Americast - always an interesting overview of American politics

No Such things as a Fish - interesting facts every week from the ‘Qi Elves’, always funny and interesting

Quite a Good Sport - two of the Elves from above look into different sports around the time of the olympics, fascinating and funny

Cautionary Tales - in depth dive into interesting things

News Quiz

More or Less

Word of Mouth - Beloved author Michael Rosen discusses language

Bad Women - the women murdered by Jack the Ripper, an in-depth look at their lives

Marianna In Conspiracyland

So you’ve been publicly shamed - Jon Ronson talks to people who have been publicly shamed, impact on them etc. super insightful

The Unbelievable Truth

Lady Killers

Seriously - a set of different documentaries a about different topics, but all interesting

Mine are all Welsh (not in language but the landscape):

• The Crossbow Killer (murder of Gerald Corrigan - mentioned up post)
• Crime Next Door: Death on the Farm (murders of Griff and Patti Thomas)
• Shreds: Murder in the dock (murder of Lynette White)

Before you think I am a complete nutter, they are all stories with a massive twist and some baffling outcomes in terms of justice - or lack thereof. I won’t say anything more as it would go into spoiler (if that’s an appropriate word) territory.

Are you paying out of the goodness of your heart? You don't need a licence for radio alone.

I like Sliced bread and Toast, Just One Thing, the law programme (not sure of the name) in fact too many to mention, I listen a lot

Shreds: Murder in the Dock - about the murder of Lynette White and the subsequent investigation and one of Britain's greatest miscarriages of justice

Young Again - Kirsty Young interviewing famous people about when they were young, some really interesting ones on their, I enjoyed Mel B's

Route Masters

If its not already been mentioned, Its a Fair Cop - absolutely hilarious.

I thought I needed a TV license to stream BBC radio via Alexa but you’re right! Thanks 🤩

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I like It's A Fair Cop, Dead Ringers, Sliced Bread and Toast and No Such Thing As A Fish. I have also enjoyed comedies including I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and old ones like All Gas and Gaiters.

If you like drama then search for whodunnits and there’s a whole collection.

i also like Old Harry’s Game, Trust, Limelight,

I also like Evil Genius and You’re Dead to Me

Listening to Little Dorrit atm - really good
love When it hits the fan
Dead Ringers is back - ‘I know!’

That all sounds really interesting. I'm going to acquaint myself with Bbc Sounds!