#radio 4

[weaversweek]

What is radio fo(u)r?

This week, a look at four recent BBC Radio Four shows.

Wing It, an improvisation game that's a lot like Whose Line Is It Anyway? but different enough to pass muster.

Unspeakable, where Phil Wang and his panel try to put new words in the dictionary, and Susie Dent tells them what similar words exist.

One Person Found This Helpful, a panel show based on the sort of foolish online reviews annoying people leave. Really needs work, and I'm surprised they've commissioned it for a high-profile slot.

Counterpoint, the evergreen music quiz. What is the secret to its longevity? And who won this year's tournament?

Plus, the Tory peer who learned the hard way that you don't fool around with University Challenge contestants.

#radio 4 #bbc #radio #mike wozniak #wing it #phil wang #susie dent #unspeakable #frank skinner #online reviews #one person found this helpful #paul gambaccini #counterpoint #quiz #panel game #comedy #comedy panel game #panel show #comedy panel show #whose line is it anyway #game show #gameshow #game shows #gameshows #ukgameshows #weaver's week

[rastronomicals]

12:20 AM EST January 22, 2024:

Public Image Ltd. - "Radio 4" From the album Metal Box (November 23, 1979)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

#Public Image Ltd. #Metal Box #Radio 4

[juliehowlin]

The Archers

The theme tune of The Archers is Barwick Green from Arthur Wood’s suite My Native Heath. In 1972, the Somerset folk group The Yetties recorded a version which now accompanies the Sunday omnibus edition. Incidentally, Billy Connolly once suggested that this tune should be the UK National Anthem.

10 things you might not know about The Archers:

#facts #the archers #radio 4

[spifflocated]

UK based Sherlock Holmes fans! I just listened to this on BBC sounds and it’s a very fun pastiche. Robert Bathurst makes an excellent audio Holmes, and I particularly enjoyed his German philosophy based existential crisis (and Watson’s response).

There are 18 days left to listen if you fancy hearing Holmes and Watson embroiled in a private case which escalates wildly when the manuscript for Das Kapital is stolen.

(Obvious warnings for discussions of revolutionary politics and drug use, as well as standard Holmesian murder and some discussion of (illegal) deportation.)

#Sherlock Holmes #doctor john watson #Sherlock Holmes pastiche #radio 4 #acd Holmes #or at least in the style of #Karl Marx #radio holmes #Spifflocated listens to radio

[helmstone]

You Must Listen — Bafflegab adapts lost Nigel Kneale play

You Must Listen — Bafflegab adapts lost Nigel Kneale play

Bafflegab has adapted the lost Nigel Kneale 1952 play You Must Listen for the BBC’s celebration of 100 years of audio drama. A solicitor’s office has a new phone line connected, but the staff keep hearing a woman’s voice on the phone. Engineer Frank Wilson is called to fix the problem, and gradually the disturbing story of the woman starts to emerge… A new adaptation of the lost 1952 radio…

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#bafflegab #bbc 100 #bbx #caroline catz #featured #jessie cave #nigel kneale #radio 4 #reece shearsmith #simon barnard #toby jones #you must listen

[105nt]

I listened to In Our Time: A Room of One's Own.

#my listening #in our time #virginia woolf #a room of one's own #radio 4

[richaldis]

This series is fantastic

#witch #pagan #radio 4 #india rakusen

[reluctantjoe]

...I always thought, "What's wrong with sentiment? You know, a laugh and a tear? There's nothing better than that for me."

MATHEW BAYNTON BBC Radio 4 Today | 06/10/2023

#mathew baynton #mat baynton #bbc radio 4 #bbc radio 4 today #radio 4 #radio 4 today #6 idiots #six idiots #the six idiots #themthere #them there #dilfedit #mensource #dailymenedit #flawlessgentlemen #mancandykings #dilfgifs #dilfsource #celebedit #celebrityedit #rj: gifset #rj: bbc radio 4 today #rj: mathew baynton #rj: 2023 #is there a world without the love of queue?

[cwickham]

A few things not heard on Radio 4 over the last two weeks.

#isihac #i'm sorry i haven't a clue #bbc radio 4 #radio 4 #jack dee #tony hawks

[miniatureworlds]

The Aftermath Dislocation Principle part 3: The Bridge, by Jimmy Cauty, a 1:87 scale dystopian cityscape.

Podcast: A Life In Miniatures

'People become writers for myriad reasons - novelist Max Porter suspects that for him the crucial spur was his fascination with Bekonscot model village, which he visited scores of times as a child. It was there that he discovered the pleasure and value of people watching at a life-size and miniature scale.

In 'A Life In Miniatures' he returns to Bekonscot to celebrate not just the care, craft and love that have gone into its construction, but also the opportunity it affords to create complicated stories out of the various people and scenes on show. He interrogates whether these places are necessarily escapist and reactionary or offer a more radical opportunity to critique society.

He visits Jimmy Cauty of KLF fame to hear about the dystopian model village he has toured around the world in a shipping container and talks with Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain, about the miniature appearance of a miniature village that appears in that book. Max also speaks with academic Melinda Rabb about the rise of miniatures in 18th Century England - and how smart phones are keeping the tradition alive in various unexpected ways.

(17 May 2022, BBC Radio 4, 30 mins)

#podcast #miniatures #model village #dollshouse #18th century #melissa rabb #jimmy cauty #shuggie bain #douglas stuart #max porter #radio 4 #bbc radio #2022 #baby houses #dollhouses #dolls house #dollshouse miniatures #doll house miniatures #miniature worlds #miniature #doll's house #dollshouseminiatures #dollhouseminiatures #scale model #bekonscot model village #dystopia #fine art #installation art #smart phone #technology

[rastronomicals]

3:33 PM EDT April 4, 2023:

Public Image Ltd. - "Radio 4" From the album Metal Box (November 23, 1979)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

#Public Image Ltd. #Metal Box #Radio 4

[denimbex1986]

'Andrew Scott has addressed the comparisons between his character in Sherlock and his new role in Netflix's Ripley.

The upcoming series, adapted from Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel The Talented Mr Ripley, will follow Scott's titular character as he scams his way to a life of riches in 1960s Italy.

While some have compared Ripley to Scott's villainous character Moriarty in the BBC's Sherlock, which he played between 2010 and 2017, Scott believes the two are completely different.

"It does feel different [to playing Moriarty]. As Moriarty I felt like I was playing a villain and for some reason I retreat against calling Ripley a villain," the actor explained while speaking on Radio 4's Today programme.

"He's an anti-hero and it's up to me to make the audience know what it's like to be Ripley, not to be a victim of Tom Ripley. We should empathise with him. He is the protagonist in this."

Scott went on to say that Highsmith's novel actually makes you "want to root" for Ripley, adding: "This is a man with enormous talent living in stress where his neighbours are rats.

"He is unseen and can do what he does in order to survive like so many people do and then he lands in this world where people are less talented than him and have no qualms in calling themselves artists.

"The message is, 'If you dismiss certain factors of the community, something becomes rotten in state of Denmark'".

Created by The Night Of's Steven Zaillian, Ripley also stars Johnny Flynn (Emma) as Dickie and Dakota Fanning (The Watchers) as Marge Sherwood, who fall victim to Ripley's manipulation.

Ripley will be available to stream on Netflix from April 4.'

#Andrew Scott #Radio 4 #Today Programme #Netflix #Ripley #Sherlock #Steven Zaillian #Dakota Fanning #Johnny Flynn #Moriarty #The Talented Mr Ripley #Patricia Highsmith

[juliehowlin]

Just A Minute

The theme music for Radio 4's Just A Minute is The Minute Waltz by Chopin, played by David Haines. However, the piece of music, if played in full, lasts longer than a minute.

10 things you might not know about Just A Minute:

#just a minute #radio 4 #facts

[jakewittlin]

#mix #bbc #radio 4 #bbc sounds

[105nt]

Start the Week - Emma Donoghue

There’s a great interview with Emma Donoghue by Adam Rutherford in Start the Week this week. I liked it so much I started making a transcript of the main bits relating to The Wonder. I’ll post it in stages - this is the last of four. All typos and errors are mine.

About eating and Florence Pugh:

AR: Eating is obviously a key theme in this, as Anna, the fasting girl is not eating, but many of the scenes feature Florence Pugh's character, Lib Wright, just jamming food into her face with big wooden spoons - big brothy Irish dishes. There's an enormous tension in there and that presumably is very deliberate?

ED: Oh, everything in a film is deliberate because you’ve worked it over so many times before the money is spent. Yes,  it was crucial to me to begin and to carry on the nurse eating, because of course, when you choose to write a story about what many people would understand as eating disorders, the last thing you should do is contribute to that cult by making it seem glamorous. 

And of course if you cast Florence Pugh, who is known to have a huge following especially of teenage girls - I  mean while we were filming the production there'd be .. the village was full of girls standing there hoping for a glimpse of her. The last thing you want to do is add Hollywood glamour to the idea of a child not eating. So it was crucial to us to show - not just to have Florence's character say, "you should eat" but to literally show her choosing life, eating this stew, stomping over the hills and saying "yes" to her body, rather than almost renouncing and turning away.

So yes, I think I counted eight eating scenes and the food was all very delicious. She took it home afterwards! She's got a wonderfully pro-food approach, Florence Pugh has, and she's known for her cooking videos as well.

AR: It is an astonishing performance, by her and all of the actors as well.

#my listening #start the week #adam rutherford #emma donoghue #florence pugh #radio 4 #bbc

[thesociallyanxioussociopath]

Part 3 of Alastor's really bad awful day~ What's worse than having to go on a fake date with your rival ? Your other rival (one-sided) deciding to play paparazzi, of course.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 (end)

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #radio demon #alastor hazbin hotel #charlie hazbin hotel #charlie morningstar #hazbin hotel lucifer #vaggie #my art #had to separate part 3 and 4 because it was too big of a post it didn't look nice #on a side note I feel like I'm getting better at drawing Alastor's hair ! Though I still hate his 50 shades of red color palette #radioapple #kinda? #I just like when they annoy each other