BS: The Archers - time to turn off.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers - time to turn off.
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 03:24 AM

"May I ask why you did?"

For the same reason I've been married 4 times - the triumph of hope over experience.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers - time to turn off.
From: theleveller
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 03:56 AM

Oops. Above was me without cookie.

Actually the real reason I listened to it was because my carradio is always tuned to Radio 4 and it happens to be on in the evening when I'm driving home from the station

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers - time to turn off.
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 04:27 AM

That is why I tune into R4 with the hope that I might stumble across something good and interesting. If I listen to the Archers it is usually the Sunday morning Omnibus one which encourages me to down tools and listen. Desert Island Disks is much more of a middle-class indulgence than the Archers (this is a programme which should come to an end) it is at this point that I switch off, a lot of nonsense about what famous guests would take with them on a desert island. Do I really care?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers - time to turn off.
From: GUEST,John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 04:34 AM

You only need to listen if it's someone you like, who is the guest that week, that's what I do. I listen to a lot of Radio 7 on Sundays.
The radio beside my bed however, is permamnently tuned to radio 4, and is NEVER turned off.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers - time to turn off.
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 06:46 AM

what famous guests would take with them on a desert island.

I feel a thread coming on!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers - time to turn off.
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 07:59 AM

The very last episode of Mrs Dale's Diary was broadcast on my 21st Birthday (sure that you needed to know that)

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers - time to turn off.
From: Will Fly
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 08:08 AM

I remember the day very well. I was having a lunchtime drink in the BBC Club (those days in the Langham Hotel building), and Jesse Mathews, the last Mrs. Dale, was draped in furs and sitting at the centre of a cast party. Champagne corks popping all over the place...

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers - time to turn off.
From: theleveller
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 12:00 PM

Oh, I really like Desert Island Discs. They get a good mix of people on, It's fascinating to hear their choice of music - either to applaud or sneer! The strangest one I heard was Norman Wisdom. Six out of the eight records he chose were of him!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers - time to turn off.
From: fat B****rd
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 12:22 PM

Elizabeth Schwarkopf chose 7 of her own recordings on DID. I don't know what the eighth was.