May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I have been aware of Spring Awakening for a number of years now. I knew it was to do with young people, teenagers – long before the term ‘teenager’ was used in regular parlance to describe a person in their adolescence. That mysterious and perplexing period of one’s life where the evolution of one’s sexual…
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I’ve only recently became a regular listener to the Feedback programme/podcast. It started due to a special they had on The Archers, soon followed by an edition featuring Dead Ringers. From that point on I’ve dipped into listening to it most weeks. I knew the Interview of the Year programme was coming up. When it…
Set your reminders because just a few days before the airing of Everything Is Possible, Mr Kerr will be on the radio, waxing lyrical about Mr Morrison. (Can I just say right here right now that Mr Kerr ALWAYS looked better in leather troosers than Mr Morrison.) See the details below… Jim Kerr on Jim…
Catherine Anne Davies – aka The Anchoress was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row programme on Tuesday night. In case you missed it, you can listen here. This will remain a permalink of her interview. I listened in live and it was very good. She was very eloquent, esp. when giving her response…
Today – the third and final part of the BBC Radio dramatisation of Charles Kingsley’s novel, The Water Babies.
As promised…episode two of The Water Babies.
I do like to listen to various things at night. A radio comedy of varying types, usually the Friday Night comedy podcast (which for the past six weeks has been Dead Ringers – so will assume we must be back to a series of The Now Show) and repeats of Cabin Pressure…audio books, read out…
I’m still regularly checking out BBC Radio for drama. Radio plays and book readings, etc. Earlier in the week, I listened to this on…well, what is now BBC Sounds app (I’m still using the iPlayer radio app at the moment). “Burning Both Ends: When Oliver Reed Met Keith Moon”. Originally broadcast in 2011, it had…
Part two of the BBC Radio abridged audio of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s classic novel.
Brought up by a certain someone in a post talking about wanting to die under a lemon tree, thinking about his age (again!), being in Sicily, and loving a good story. He always reels me in with his recommendations. I used to listen to Radio 4 dramas a lot for a certain period. I still…