LJ Radio 4 listeners' Journal (original) (raw)
Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded inLJ Radio 4 listeners' LiveJournal:
Monday, December 6th, 2010
12:26 pm
[ross]
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
10:32 am
[ross]
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
5:25 pm
[ross]
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
7:50 pm
[ross]
Monday, June 29th, 2009
9:36 am
[spodlife]
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
12:38 am
[hennell]
Iraq War Inquest Don't really want to get too political here, but Eddie Mair's summing up of the Iraq Inquiry earlier (Monday) while interviewing Bob Anisworth was absolutely fantastic.
(From about 14 mins on iPlayer)
Eddie: So here we have an inquiry that will take place behind closed doors, no-one will be blamed, there'll be no compunction on people to appear, and no legal obligation to tell the truth.
It's going to be a really searching inquiry isn't it Mr Anisworth?
[Snip of Anisworth rambling]
Eddie: You've accused me of cynicism, was anything I said factually incorrect?
Bob: It was the tone of voice.
Eddie: Well let me use another tone of voice; (Now cheery):"In private, no blame, no compunction on people to appear, and no obligation to tell the truth?"
I wonder what this inquiry might find...
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
8:39 am
[silverclear]
If you missed it, I would highly recommend listening again to Today at about 6:40 this morning when they did the papers. A lovely moment for Evan Davis fans!
Current Mood: 
amused
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
12:03 pm
[pwca]
Sir Clement Freud 1924-2009 Sir Clement Freud has died aged 84.
This is saddening news, his is a voice that will be greatly missed by so many. For Radio 4 and JAM listeners, he has been a constant presence for some four decades. The show just will not be the same without him, but it will go on, having changed to take account of the loss of other panelists.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
1:39 pm
[ross]
Ha ha! So loving the Arse-kissing on radio 4 right now.
Mainly because of the way the panel is struggling to cope with the descriptive language they keep using and not corpse...
Current Mood: fnar
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
8:22 pm
[momentsmusicaux]
Cabin Pressure Is it me or is Cabin Pressure just pretty pathetic?
You'd think a sitcom about an airline would at least manage to be a clone of The High Life, but not even that.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
9:09 pm
[pwca]
For everyone who complained about Broken Arts not being funny, I give you Count Arthur Strong. How many extremely unfunny series of that show have we had? Hold on, I seem to recall that in the Christmas show, Count Arthur Strong actually got within binocular distance of a joke, otherwise it is half an hour of senility. Feedback last week suggested that it takes time for comedy series to find its feet, but I beg that someone would just kick the feet out from under Count Arthur Strong and bury the damn show.
All right, not all of Broken Arts worked and some of the jokes were terrible, but at least it gave us one deliciously silly idea -- an "all pirate" performance of Fame.
One joke that I will remember.
Nothing about Count Arthur Strong is memorable except its ability to irritate.
1:08 pm
[louis_mallow]
Ken Clarke Ken Clarke should have used his time at the Dispatch Box to do lectures on jazz.
That's all.
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
11:49 am
[notinventedhere]
Science Fiction Season I'm curious. Is anyone else listening to the Science Fiction Season stuff on Radio 4 (and 3 and 7)?
I have been listening to The Death of Grass (Woman's Hour serial) and Rendezvous with Rama (Classic Serial), and I am looking forward to The State of the Art, this afternoon's Afternoon Play.
I am in an interesting position, as I have both an MA in Science Fiction Studies, and a Diploma in Writing and Production for Radio. While I am thrilled that Radio 4 has committed some time to on-air Science Fiction, I have not so far been particularly impressed with the standard of the drama. Episode one of Rendezvous with Rama was slow and uninteresting, with too much 'infodumping', and not enough story, IMO. The Death of Grass is better, but the plummy accents being used to set the action firmly in the 1950s serve to make the drama less immediate, and keep the listener a little too comfortable. IMO.
What does everyone else think?
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
10:06 am
[mzdt]
Friday, February 20th, 2009
10:09 pm
[ross]
Monday, February 16th, 2009
11:14 am
[mzdt]
ha - just got this whilst trying to listen live at work.
I assume those will real radios are still able to listen, and it's not actually the End of the World as we Know It? ;-)
edit at 12.50 - Radio 4 streaming is back, but BBC7 claims to be there but isn't working. See the comments below about You & Yours!
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
7:59 pm
[ross]
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
2:35 pm
[dandelion]
podcast? Does anyone know why this week's News Quiz isn't available to download as the usual podcast? Am I looking in the wrong place?
12:05 am
[xiv_gemina]
RIP Bill - TMS will never be the same again Ye Sad News.
Wow - Bill Frindall has died at the age of only 69, after suffering from Legionnaires' disease.
This is, in a world riven by Famine, Pestilence and War, rather small beer in the grand scheme of things, but Bill was a key part of something that I aver to be one of Merrie England's most cherished Institutions.
He was the scorer for BBC Radio's Test Match Special cricket coverage.
OK, so many R4 LW listeners may hate the loss of their favourite programmes to make way for days and days of interminable, meaningless 'sport' coverage, but TMS is, of course, much more than just a cricket commentary...
It is an isolated pocket of harmless whimsy in the frantic modern world; if you are confined to your home with some illness, it is a friendly voice in the corner of the room, one that reassures you that God is in His Heaven and all is well with the World ; it is one of the essential features of the English Summer - and it will be much poorer for the loss of Bill.
He played a vital role in the TMS team - not only because he was such a meticulous keeper of the score, and recorder of all significant events during a game's play, but because it was Bill who was content to play the role of 'ballast' - to steady the keel of the show - for so long, being the person who usually brought the commentators' 'naughty schoolchildren' back to the ostensible purpose of the show (covering cricket matches) whenever they got too far out of hand or off-topic (which was/is often).
That said, he could 'hold his own' very well with the assorted former professional cricketers and BBC commentators in the TMS box, and his dry sense of humour will be missed..
To fans of cricket who grew up with TMS, Bill was a living legend - which fact was often reflected in the comments of the celebrities that TMS interviews during the cricket's lunch breaks. Many of these interviewees down the years have expressed a sense of awe and privilege at being so close to Bill - a man who was so consumately professional that, should a discrepancy ever arise between the figures of the official scoreboard and those of Mr. Frindall, the commentators invariably took his word over that of the officials - at every ground.
I cannot recall Bill's figures ever being found to be incorrect - the official scoreboards usually lagged behind him, or were soon amended to show statistics that agreed with his figures.
This is no mean achievement; the sport of Cricket is characterised by armies of arcane statistics marching across the same board simultaneously. Bill seemed able to keep track of all of them (and also be able to remember most of the historically-significant ones) all at once.
In the small and esoteric field that he bestrode, Bill was a Colossus, and his death means that the game of Cricket has lost one of its finest figures - and cricket on the radio has lost one of its fixtures.
RIP Bill.
My thoughts are with his wife.
Current Mood: 
sad
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
1:10 pm
[ginasketch]
Old Harry's Game tickets A friend of mine has kindly offered me a ticket to see Old Harry's Game 7 being recorded in february. She did this because all the tickets had sold out and I wasn't able to get one!
However, I'd still like to take along another friend. Would anyone happen to have a spare ticket for the Feb. date they would be willing to part with?
x posted to 
radio4comedy
Current Mood: hopeful