Are there any Radio 4 lovers left on MN these days?

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If so, can I just share my joy at having 're-discovered' it again!

Since moving house, and having kids I seemed to have 'lost the Radio 4 habit'. The kids meant I never seemed to have time to myself, and also the radio reception was crap, as we are in a hilly area, and the signal was poor...

BUT..

DH bought me a DAB radio for Christmas, and my life has changed again forever.

I LOVE all the current affairs programmes, and the plays, and Woman's Hour, and the news quizzes etc etc.

I feel like I have rediscovered myself.

When I was at school I used to listen to Radio 4 loads (for General Studies A level and at Uni we used to listen to The Archers....
And then when I did a politics degree I used to listen to it for all the current affairs...

Ah, bliss. Please sign in if you are similarly appreciative....

Oh yes, that is her name, melanie phillips. I get too riled to listen to her.
Do listen to Gardeners QT, but agree about when mingy whats-his-face with the long hair greasy organic gardener starts oh-erring about the length of his carrot.
Since being a teacher I actually started to listen to Go For It - that is worrying, isn't it?

Thanks mamatulip for the link.

grouchy Oscar if you're missing Peel look here for Peel things maybe.

Jennsofia, I love to hate Melanie P. She's so self righteous and sneering it's just heaven to listen to her and let her drive me crazy!

I leap across the room and risk life and limb to switch it off before I even here one bar of the music let alone the heinous dulcets of

BARNEY!!!!!!!

check him out he's some kind of elf!!

Ed Reardon's Week on the other hand is a joy.

I too am a Radio 4 lover - actually I am more a BBC radio lover as during the day I start out with Six Music and then move on to Four, One, Two, One, Four, Two and (depending on my mood) Four/Seven/Six. I also manage (somehow) to listen again to a lot of stuff on Four.

I particularly adore Fi Glover and the Moral Maze is great. It makes me feel thrilled that I am not as clever as that bunch of arses.

Patsy

oh lord Barney Harwood is too too cute
what a shame he is so toecurlingly, trainersnappingly awful

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barney is wasted on radio 4, those horrible spoilt brats.

radio london has had a big change of schedule i'm not happy. norman jay left, sunday's will never be the same to me

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robert's show still remains, so peed off with the other changes though

My favourite is Cross Incontinents. Always makes me smile when it's announced. (argh! Having an appostrope issue - sorry pedants if that's wrong!).

So Patsy cline are you a George Lamb fan? I didn't like him at all and then listened a bit and now find the show very funny.

Robert Elms is quite good but can be irritating too no?

Barney is an ELF!!!

No, I'm not really into George Lamb. I love the morning DJs on Six, especially Shaun K and, at the weekends, Natasha.

I used to listen to Robert Elms on GLR when I was in London and working shifts. Does he still have that blokey Maxwell Hutchins (sic?) coming on and talking about architecture? There was a fabulous period on GLR when they had Robert Elms, Fi Glover, Gideon Coe and Chris Evans as presenters.

Patsy

Those were GLR's glory days for sure or so I've heard people say!
I really like Stephen Merchant's prog also Bob Dylan too on 6music

I love R4 and listen all day on and off.

I'd have been taken away by the men in white coats years ago if it hadn't been for R4. (I found the early years of SAHMing a little er.. tough at times wrt sanity iykwim)

I am absolutely fascinated by those Bob Dylan programmes, Ipanemagirl. They are gripping (mainly because his speaking voice is so unique and fabulous), but I also love the fact that the music he plays is so eclectic.

Sadly, Stephen Merchant is on at a time when I am taking DDs to ballet. The ads for his show always make me smile, so I should 'Listen Again'. I do hate it when my bloody children interfere with my radio pleasure. One of the major things I love about going to to London to see old friends (2.5 hour trip) is that I can listen to Saturday morning Radio 4 uninterrupted...

Patsy

Me too Tsar, my only problem is being a bad mother when there's something good on the radio! Hang on a minute, shh shhh, one minute! Thank god for listen again.

Patsy, those programmes are the best things ever in the whole world and I miss them so often, terribly inconvenient time, but his manner of speaking is amazing isn't it? I'm mesmerised by him but I am a total prostrate fan.

Someone was moaning about the license fee (and of course people do have a point about it and some people do find it hard to pay of course) But to anyone who debates it with me I say:

1] Have you ever tried to find something to watch in the USA?
2] If you costed my annual listening of Radio 4, 5, 3 (occasionally) 1, and 6. Even World Service and 6 music too. It would come to a tiny amount per hour! Add the telly too and it seems worth it to me.

When I've spent long periods in the US I could cry for lack of bbc. I know you can get it online but it's not the same! The BBC is one of the major extraordinary quirks which makes this country what it is imo! (Pause for rousing Elgar swelling in background and sobbing heard all around segueing into Land of Hope and Glory and general swaying and waving of flags.)

Sorry got a bit carried away, it's the snow!

god yes, love radio 4!

off to read thread now...

But I have to stress that I never ever want to hear eating or kissing on the radio ever ever ever ever ever, it makes me want to die.

weirdly, i love radio 4 EXCEPT for the plays and the archers! well, don't mind the archers, but generally hate the plays...

Oh the drama is execrable! With the odd honourable exception.

It's the way all the actors are always doing dreadful northern, welsh, scottish accents but usually shouting in northern irish accents. shouting shouting shouting depressing nonsense.

It amuses me that if you turn the radio on mid sentence, you can tell if it's Dickens within two words because of the special Dickens voices the actors use!

I know! And you can also tell Tamsin Grieg within a millisecond and all those Archers lasses too and Juliet Stevenson of course! And I think Matt from the Archers does loads of other things.

Hate the drama, hate the drama hate the plays.

LOVE the classic drama though - can never have enough of those.

Miss Oneword for the books.