Any Radio 4 listeners out there??

[Bigmal]

One of my main loves in life is going out on my bike and listening to me beloved Radio 4. I love womens hour, really interesting topics on the whole. I cannot stand the now show or anything Mitchell and Webb... The book of the week and a book at bedtime is fab as are the plays. My fav is just a minute. Parsons is just fantastic.
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[Ariel Badger]

I am an addict, only thing on my radio. PM Program is ideal as soon as I get in and I could wank to Gardeners Question Time.
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[panrider_uk]

Me.

I have slippers and if I smoked I'd doubtless have a pipe.
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[Llama-Farmer]

Younger than the average R4 listener, at only 24 years of age, but I listen to it 40% of the time, more than any other individual radio station.

Love listening to Just a Minute and The Infinite Monkey Cage. Desert Island Discs is always a winner, and download the podcasts for those 3 if I happen to miss them on the radio.

Always found the shipping forecast to be very soothing when I'm stuck late at work or have an early start in the car.

Not a fan of Woman's Hour though, and cannot stand The Archers.

[panrider_uk]

The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy original radio series is being broadcast on Radio 4 xtra on Saturdays
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[slowlydoesit]

[N cee thirty]

I've recently switched over to radio 2 after finally getting bored of radio 1 and its constant playing of the same songs and childish goings on, radio 4 might be a few years off for me yet
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[N cee thirty]

[Llama-Farmer]

[Bigmal]

What was the music played before the weather forecast called again?
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[chrisw]

[Bigmal]

Cheers Chrisw
What was the other tune on Radio 4 the British Isles doohdah
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[janner_10]

Have been an avid R4 listener since I was about 14.

Listening to radio / music and riding aren't good bed fellows IMO though.
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[Llama-Farmer]

[Benno]

Did anyone hear my grandad talking about the Crimea situation a few days ago? He's always talking on Radio 4

The Benno family are very influential. So I tell myself when I go to sleep jobless every night...something will come along soon
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[Rogerborg]

All radios should be tuned to radio 4 and then have the buttons removed.
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[G]

Pretty much the only station I listen to - not a fan of the inane warblings of the rest - if I want to listen to music I'll listen to my own without them.

Mostly just listen in the car, but sometimes have their pod casts on my phone - yes, including the daily westminster stuff.

Womans hour irks me on occasion (see feminism thread), but often interesting stuff buried in there. Glad I've got steering wheel controls on my latest car, so I can ensure a quick switch over at 2pm/7pm straight after the news to miss the Archers .

If you didn't catch it, "The Long March" is definitely worth a listen - a series covering what's the start of Mao's ascension to power.

[hellkat]

[Muldoon]

Yes regular listener at age of 44..enjoy wakening up to farming today and learning all about different aspects of soil, worms and animal issues. Also tweet of the day and Today regular favourites before heading off to work. Some good stuff in the evenings between 8 and 10pm then the World Tonight. Chris Evans is ok on radio 2 as an alternative if you need wakening up properly, but in small doses. Another enjoyment is TMS on long wave..
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[thx1138]

I listen a lot, but mostly avoid womens hour, the plays desert island disc, the books, and the archers

[Islander]

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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

I listen - but only on long wave, because the shipping forecast is the most essential part of the schedule. The only time you can hear it on FM is really late at night or dead early in the morning - in other words, if you are trying to come down off a really long acid trip and need the sound of something homely burbling in the background.

Anyway yeah - it's good to keep up with the goings on in, e.g. North and South Utsire, not to mention German Bight. The only downside to long wave is the Daily Service, LW's tedious, soul destroying, interminable god slot - a programme so dire that you will need to cleanse your radio with fire if you don't manage to switch it off in time. Long wave is also great for live cricket commentary. The essential sound of summer. You don't actually listen to it so much as absorb it through the subatomic pores of your very mind - it is a form of sonic wallpaper, as reassuring as clean underpants, a renewed prescription for Imipramine, or the smell of an Austin 1100's interior after standing in strong sunlight in a quiet suburban street somewhere near Maidenhead, or Hurley.

What really fucking pissed me off though was how they've replaced The Archers' Clarrie Grundy with a new one, THEN SHORTLY AFTER a new Tony Archer.

WTF.

The old Clarrie was about a grillion squillion times better - the subtle levity of her delivery was impeccably pitched. The new one is a drab - a down at heel yokel dullard that I both loathe and despise. And as for the new Tony Archer, well. What were they thinking?? The old one was a spoilt, snobbish twit who deserved a sound kicking on the car park of The Bull. Whereas his replacement is just a rich whining cunt.

Also, much as I hate the scotch, there's not enough Jazzer.
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[Ariel Badger]

The new Tony is just wrong, Clary however used to be Clary many years ago and is (I think) actually married to Eddy RL.
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