Any World Service fans out there?

[Habbibu]

I used to like it late at night when R4 morphed into it, but since getting DAB have listened to it a lot - the news is great, and puts UK news in a broader context; the instant guides are fab, and I love World Have Your Say, and programmes where they get listeners from different nations to debate.

Any other WS addicts?

I do like it when R4 "Morphs" into it as you say,if I am still awake!

It DOES give a broader worldview.I have a DAB radio and should try listening to it when R4 gets tedious-You and Yours,for example.I also like R7,and used to love the station that broadcast books/novels but it is alas no more!

The people at World Service are wonderful. I one had to take a PR client there very early in the morning when the rest of London was asleep. The journalists I met were some of the cleverest, most fascinating and funniest people I've met. I didn't want to leave.

I hate You and Yours. It's one long moan.

I used to listen to it when I lived in the states and couldn't get R4. Necessary source of proper news there!

I've just ordered a portable DAB using my Nectar points which have been accumulating for goodness knows how long, must remember to try WS and R7.

Oh huzzah! Grimma - stick it on your pre-sets - just wonderful. The only downside is that it repeats a lot more than R4 - understandably - but it means you do find yourself listening to the same thing over and over. The news in the morning competes very well with the Today programme - wish my car DAB hadn't died.

I need the World Service as I live abroad but can rarely receive it. The reception, if at all available, is v poor and fades in and out. That's more annoying than not getting it in the first place.

Can you not get it online, Sue, or is that just in the UK?

I treasure the World Service on my insomniac nights. I often used to drift off and then wake up to some fascinating item on betel nut chewing or somesuch... i have learnt a lot from the WS

When we were in the US DH was waxing lyrical to a friend about the quality of WS versus their attempts at radio. Tuned in to a very earnest discussion about growing loganberries in Scotland, which didn't have quite the impact we'd anticipated

that's so funny, grimma - yes, loganberries and betel nut chewing. I love the world service but it is a bit, erm, earnest, isn't it

Habbibu, our internet isn't strong enough to support it. Half the time it can barely cope with email.