Stuff You've Heard on Radio That's Worth Listening to.

UlstermanAbroad

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I love radio. It's been a constant in my life since I was in primary school.
In fact. One of my earliest memories at age four or five, is of Little Eva
belting out The Loco-motion (1962) on a little pocket radio in my bedroom.
Although I first heard it at around 1970 ish. The Loco-motion is such a joyful song.
Who couldn't love it :)
Years later, in all sorts of strange places around the world, hearing the
BBC World Service theme across thousands of miles, always brought a lump to
my throat and it felt like an unbreakable connection with home, across the ether.
I believe that a thread of radio programmes or excerpts that we deem worth
listening to, is every bit as useful as one focusing on television.

I'll kick off with this. Biohacking in Your Garage. A series presented by a Nottingham University Professor
of Genetic Engineering. I was stunned by the programme's contents. And there are more
programmes in the series. Each is less than fifteen minutes long, but packs a punch
out of all proportion to it's size.

Where the cutting edge of genetics is now and might be in five years reads like sci-fi.
 
DaveT

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Radio Luxembourg on 208 MW in the early 70's was my first radio fix - under the bed clothes with the radio I got for Christmas.

"There's a ghost in my house" by R Dean Taylor. Great tune I remember from back then for some reason!

Still love radio now - 6 Music for my tunes and Radio 4 for most other stuff.
 
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I enjoy podcasts - I just see it as radio on demand. My go to one's are:

- Lex Fridman

- Freakonomics

And since I like golf (don't judge me!) I do enjoy "No Laying Up" - I don't really care about tour results, but do like the interviews with older players or young players on the lower tour circuits.
 
UlstermanAbroad

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DaveT said:
Radio Luxembourg on 208 MW in the early 70's was my first radio fix - under the bed clothes with the radio I got for Christmas.

"There's a ghost in my house" by R Dean Taylor. Great tune I remember from back then for some reason!

Still love radio now - 6 Music for my tunes and Radio 4 for most other stuff.
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Hilarious to hear that I wasn't the only one, listening perilously, with the lights off.
I hoped in vain, that those awful little single ear bud things, would ensure against getting caught.
But, alas not :rolleyes:
Radio Luxembourg for the weekly Top 40 and the BBC for the news at midnight, then the
World Service after A Book at Bedtime :thumb3:
 
Tallman

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Radio Veronica from a ship in the North Sea, as it contravened licensing/broadcasting laws at the time. Nowadays I don't listen to the radio

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DaveT said:
"There's a ghost in my house" by R Dean Taylor. Great tune I remember from back then for some reason!
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Indiana Wants Me is so different from the Northern Soul favourite There's A Ghost In My House.
 
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Back In the mid to late 70s Radio Caroline use to get people to send in their Personnel Top 30 songs and when the DJ like Tom Anderson was running down the tracks been picked the music in the background was Jessica by the Allman's, many years later butchered by Top Gear.
 
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I was in the dormitory located in the attic of a Victorian gothic mansion using an illegal radio (should be kept in the cupbord next to the staff common room and only allowed on Sunday afternoons forthe top 40). Felt like Colditz with the guards coming round at various times.....
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MarkMas

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Feels to me like there are two kinds of podcasts (although they overlap):
  • time-shifted radio programmes
  • specifically-created podcasts
And the podcasts seem to separate into 'chatty' podcasts with two or three celebs, friends, or whatever just taking with each other, and 'curated' podcasts that are more like traditional radio.

I find the trouble with 'chatty' podcasts is that they seem to exclude, rather than include the audience. You feel as if you are overhearing some people you don't know who are having a better time than you. But good radio or radio-style podcasts can be brilliant.

Of the top of my head, I recommend, the obvious:
More or Less by Tim Harford (Radio 4 and Pod) https://timharford.com/etc/more-or-less/
Thinking Allowed by Laurie Taylor (Radio 4 and Pod) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy05
and the longer form:
The Bomb - one-off series about the creation of the atom bomb and the role of Leo Szilard https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08llv8n/episodes/downloads
 
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Whilst doing up the house I've been listening to 6music. They play some weird stuff every now and then but it's good to listen to and keeps me track of time through the day. Craig Charles isn't bad for a scouser. Mary Anne Hobbs has a natural asmr voices. The evening shows aren't bad with Marc Riley and Gideon Coe.

As for podcasts, Beyond the Grid are very good interviews. Particularly some of the older racers. Alan Jones can't stop swearing but it's good to hear what went on from their point of view, how senna blocked Derek Warwick from signing for lotus and other stuff.
 
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Agree on 6 Music - Craig Charles Funk and Soul show is a Saturday night cooking dinner/going out staple and on Sounds through the week.

I've got into Greatest Hits radio recently - fantastic selection of 70s, 80s and 90s music if a few too many adverts.

That Peter Crouch podcast is good if a bit laddish. Some great and candid stories and some good guests.

I too used to be under the covers listening to the Tommy Vance Rock show.
 
UlstermanAbroad

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I heard this Sideways BBC R4 at 16.00 hrs yesterday.
The presenter Matthew Syed consults on high performance in organisations
and at individual level. I found it thought provoking in that the episode I listened to
yesterday, was about challenging what success means for each of us.
There's a limited amount that you can get across to such a broad audience in one bite.
But it does do what it says and provoke thought, and some objective introspection maybe.
There are other areas of life challenged in other programmes.
He's very easy to listen to. In fact that's what I'd describe it as. Easy listening self reflection.
There may be some value in it for some of us.
 
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Ebenezer said:
I was in the dormitory located in the attic of a Victorian gothic mansion using an illegal radio (should be kept in the cupbord next to the staff common room and only allowed on Sunday afternoons forthe top 40). Felt like Colditz with the guards coming round at various times.....
Eb
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Where was your version of Colditz Eb? Sounds a bit like the school my father was sent to. North of London.
My own experience was similar. Crossed with Lord of the Flies.
 
MarkMas

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Ebenezer said:
I was in the dormitory located in the attic of a Victorian gothic mansion using an illegal radio (should be kept in the cupbord next to the staff common room and only allowed on Sunday afternoons forthe top 40). Felt like Colditz with the guards coming round at various times.....
Eb
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Sounds like you had a roof! Luxury!
 
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UlstermanAbroad said:
Where was your version of Colditz Eb? Sounds a bit like the school my father was sent to. North of London.
My own experience was similar. Crossed with Lord of the Flies.
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Wildest Devon. No longer exists now. Although it was the 70's, felt like post war - didn't seem to be any difference between my existance and those of the characters in the Boys own annuals I read when I was in sick bay! A number of the staff were ex military, Major this, Commander the other. Caning, Gym shoe, slipper depending on the misdeamour. Wasn't a bad place, but it was definitely a culture shock for both them and me jetting in from Hong Kong when most of them were farmers lads and had never left tthe county.
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97.3 Jack FM, out of Bakersfield, California. It was my go-to radio station when I worked in California a lot, and I used to love the drive south down the coast from LA to San Diego accompanied by the excellent rock, R&B and occasional (rogue) pop music that Jack plays. The IP stream was geo-blocked for a while, but I've found it on https://uk.radio.net/s/krjk and am happy to be listening again.
 
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Caught this before Christmas. I like a lot of John Finnemore's stuff. This is bloody hilarious

Set on a disputed island in the South Pacific and (somewhat like how quantum physics may not predict entirely correct results on the makro scale) what happens when diplomacy is reduced to two guys talking about why penguins get divorced.....

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John Finnemore's Double Acts (Series 1 & 2) : John Finnemore : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The writer and star of the multi-award winning sketch show John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme and the sitcom Cabin Pressure writes these standalone...
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