Try listening to the news 'at the top of the hour.' Bloody unbelievable.
Be careful though. If you expose yourself to what passes as music there, you may feel the urge to kill.
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Radio 1 is a parallel universe
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MrChigleysAunt
offlineMemberI've never managed to find a radio station I like. Radio 1 is as you say, but then its target audience is 16 to 24 year olds. Radio 2 (or rather the people who phone into it) scares me. If R1 is in a parallel universe then R2 is in a time warp. I don't like much classical stuff so Radio 3 is out. But I reserve my particular ire for Radio 4.
Occasionally, I'll accidentally hear something good on R4 and think I've been maligning it. Then I spend weeks listening to it in the hope of hearing something else I like and then realise that I'm spending more time than is sane screaming at the radio.
It's so bloody smug! And Charlotte Green, the newsreader. Aaaargh! I just picture her enunciating in front of the mirror for hours. As for the listeners - I think Frankie Boyle must have had them in mind when he came up with the name for his current tour.Posted 2 years ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberOur local commercial station is quite good. It has a good mix of music, the easiest quizzes this side of GMTV and a variety of useful local news.
However, with the exception of a very small percentage, the majority of the callers are inbred mutants with accents so thick, even someone like me who has lived in the area my whole life can struggle to understand them.In terms of BBC Radio, we only have Radio Scotland, as the lovely BBC considers it unnecessary to discern between the east and west coasts, not mention the Highlands, Borders or Islands.
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Quaz
offlineMemberBack in the day when I was in the age bracket for radio one, I still remember thinking it was crap in the daytime (I had a holliday job that meant spending all day listening to it, and it was the same playlist of pop tat for every show with some tired old DJs). after 6pm it got a lot better, and the same is true today, but sundays are good (get's a bit banging for my tasts now on a friday and saturday night).
I love R4, mainly for the interesting stuff and partly for the chance to shout "smug git!" at it in the car as I listen to someone called Jocaster who is a friend of a friend of the producer plugging her book that tells how they have downsized to a farmhouse in the Cotswolds since her husband lost his job in the city and how she discovered that you really don't need to spend £2000 on a handbag. Ditto the sunday times.
Posted 2 years ago # -
sauce
offlineMemberI remember my parents rationing telly, because "It's lazy: no brain effort" and I'm sure radio was no different when it came out - "switch off in between or your intellect will wither." Even books were considered very dodgy way back when (and not just the Marquis de Sade's scribblings); Jane Austen wrote novels - the lowest of the low in those days.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberMy parents didn't allow me to watch the popular ITV programmes of my childhood.
So when there are discussions about "Monkey", and "Worzel Gummidge" I have no idea what people are talking about.
My folks always considered them to be too low-brow, and encouraged me to watch documentaries.I think this is why even now, I can't abide 'lowest common denominator tv'.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberWas it? Well, I still wasn't allowed to watch it.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Scroat
offlineMemberRemember Radio Luxembourg anyone? Your station of the stars. Horace Batchelor's Infra Draw Method. See this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Batchelor
Also there was a programme aimed at the burgeoning trendy night-oil-burning student population called Through 'Till Two. Ten at night until two in the morning, half hosted by Jimmy Young and Half hosted by Steve Race. This would have been on the Light Programme in those days. Oh how we bopped.
Sorry. Bad attack of nostalgia there. It happens.
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MrChigleysAunt
offlineMemberMost days, when I'm out for my lunchtime walk, I see a guy from another company who has great big sideburns and a chimpish sort of face. And every day I want to strike a martial artish sort of pose, point at him and shout MONKEEEEEY!
I much preferred The Water Margin though.Posted 2 years ago # -
edward hack
offlineMemberMr CA
Re: implausible side-burns
check out lead singer of Mungo Jerry circa 1970 - top man (still is)
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Mungo.Jerry.Pictures/Randoms?feat=flashalbum#5364248137124992770But coolest hairstyle-cum-facial-hair has to be the 'dude in 'Enter the Dragon'...the coloured guy.
http://www.whiterose.org/pete/blog/images/bbjones.jpg
I SO wanted to be like him when I was older (rather than the Playdo doe man)
Maybe possibilities for a survey there....'who was the coolest dude/dudeess on film'Posted 2 years ago # -
Quaz
offlineMemberMrs Q wasn;t allowed to watch ITV or anything much apart from Blue Peter as a kid either, and she also suffers from being unable to recall anything from the 70's as a result. She has almost no point of reference with anyone else until the 80's. Let's face it though, there wasn't much TV in the 70's anyway. I'm sure I can remember the end of the vietnam war on BBC news and recall various major events from the 70's, so TV wasn't all bad for you.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberso TV wasn't all bad for you.
TV in Scotland in the 70s meant "The White Heather Club".
Do you want to rethink that last statement?
Posted 2 years ago # -
theumpire
offlineMemberBring back Pirate Radio, I say. Caroline and London, 390 - those were the days. That was where we first heard Kenny and Cash,and Tony Windsor on "Big L", wasn't it? And when the wind was in the North-west, we could pick up Caroline from the Irish Sea even down in my old home in Bucks.
And then there was Johnnie Walker with his listeners flashing their car headlights at him from Frinton-on-Sea. And didn't Screaming Lord Sutch have an offshore station and read excerpts from Lady Chatterley's Lover?
The Beeb just couldn't compete.
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