Well, I'm sure they will also recognise the cartoons they watch etc
How much do their surnames come up in anyway...a surname is not something you use personally when you are 3 years old...

pete, you stole that from the now show, for shame.

yes I did.

Now Show FTW.

actually i prefer Ed Reardon's Week, but Now Show is pretty dam' good. I particularly enjoyed the Trident sketch the other week with the enthusiasts "oh is that an original Blue Streak? I've got a '66 Polaris myself..."

I didn't know any of you young people still listened to Radio 4, i thought you'd all be listening to "pop" music on your iPods. There's hope for you yet! Keep at it and one day you'll turn into "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" like I did!

Edited by - Tawakalna on 12/16/2006 2:10:30 PM

i quite enjoy radio 4 from time to time, usually the comedy or scientific or historical programs.

I write to Radio 4 quite a lot, usually complaining about Tony Blair or economic statistics or motoring costs or council tax. They never read out my letters though

Radio 4 is the only radio channel I listen to by choice. And I despise pop music. Or just about any kind of music written post-1930.

With all my music and audio books, these days I see little use for radio.

well that's just terrible Radio is a wonderful medium where imagination is still demanded and encouraged, you can't lazily expect it all to be done for you like the telly does. The fact that you listen to audio-books means that you are still at least to some degree in touch with the spoken word, but radio plays do exactly the same and you get extra effects and usually no narration, meaning that it's actually a more rewarding experience. To this day I remain firm in my conviction that the best adaptation of Narnia was the R4 production - I remember the moment I first heard the theme music on the World Service and I was instantly captivated, it had the same impact that the books did when I first read them.

Ibsen (my favourite playwright) works better on the radio for me than on stage - I couldn't ever see "Emperor & Galilean" being produced on stage as well the R3 adaptation. The beauty of radio is that you form the images in your own head and thus retain a degree of independence and owenrship of your own imagination, you see it as you imagine it, not someone else's. And as Julie Walters famously said in Educating Rita, Ibsen said this plays were for voices, so do it on the radio...

And i don't think i will ever again experience anything like the unforgettable Whose is the Kingdom? on R3 in the late 80s. sadly i lost the tapes of this incredible series and I'd love to hear it again, even though almost every word is etched in my memory. It was about the Constantinian Shift in the early 4th Century when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, and it was, well, a "revelation..."

I don't know if you have anything comparable to national public service broadcasting like the BBC in the US that commissions radio drama. if all you've got is WKRK your local radio station for talk, country music, and easy listenin', then I'm not surprised you don't see a future for radio. This afternoon at 3 however i shall be listening to the second part of John Masefield's "the Midnight Folk" on R4 - the precursor to the magical "Box of Delights."

I actually much prefer radio to TV, the only TV i watch is BSG, Lost, and Al-Jazeera News, whereas i listen to the radio for several hours every day. Only R3 and 4, of course.

A little annoying that the BBC decided to chop a large bit off the frequency band for R3. It's the only channel where the quality of the music is good enough that you'd notice the quality loss of signal. The remaining channels seem dominated by people talking incomprehesibly in a bizzare rhythm or instruments that sound like tortured cats. And Classic FM has more ads than music.

The only thing I enjoy listening to on the radio is the occasional talk show. Otherwise it is CDs for me.

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Edited by - richard s on 12/26/2006 3:57:36 PM