Comments on: Things You Never Want To Hear A Radio 4 Announcer Announce, Part The First

By: Jack Mottram

Jack Mottram — Thu, 19 May 2005 14:26:00 +0000

Not the whole of Radio 4, Tim, just the bits like this one! I'm looking forward to Listen Again/BBC podcasts developing so that I can organise my own personal Radio 4, shorn of all drama/You & Yours/Home Truths/Quote Unquote/etc. etc., maybe with a bit of World Service mixed in to fill the gaps...

(Alan Bennet being a good example of the sort of thing that Radio 4 schedule I can't abide, too - repeatedly over-enunciating the word 'antimacassar' while mocking poor people becuase you're not one anymore does not a comic genius make!)

By: tim

tim — Thu, 19 May 2005 14:04:18 +0000

Heard the first in the series on a drive down to Manchester. Apart from the ending which was a bit weak, I thought the whole thing was pretty good actually. Funny, great narrative drive, good testing of the monologue limitations. Slightly sentimental but hey, not bad. No it wasn't Alan Bennett but really, hardly the issue to make you tell the whole of Radio 4 to "fuck off" on.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 14 May 2005 16:36:56 +0000

God, even the mention of Quote Unquote makes me shudder.

The good does indeed outweigh the bad by a huge margin - it's only my chronic Radio 4 addiction that makes me so full of rage when I have to listen to the cosy middle class pap on the schedules (I know I could turn it off, but for some reason that never seems to occur to me!)

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 14 May 2005 11:48:45 +0000

Here's another one: 'And now it's time for Quote, Unquote'

Thankfully, the good stuff on R4 outweighs the not so good stuff.

By: Gary Fleming

Gary Fleming — Fri, 13 May 2005 12:12:51 +0000

She had an article in the Guardian about her monologues the other day. It wasn't particularly interesting then, I'm sure the radio show will be the same.