When it's good it can be very good.
Today with Nigel Owens was excellent. Look it up on the BBC player. Told his story well and with real bravery I thought.
His music was cack though.
Sorry but I wasn't given any option as to where to place this thread other than General Charlton.
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Listen here…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08cr6w9
Can anyone recommend any?
Just listened to Brad Wiggins and Tony Adams today on a long journey. I really enjoyed Noel G's and Tom Hanks. Those been my favourite so far.
Davina McCall was a surprise to me recently, Springsteen was very open too and good music. The guy who does the choir who's name escapes me was good.
Radio 4 is worth the licence fee on its own.
The news is excellent and I live the obscure subjects they cover in documentaries, from our own correspondent, etc.
Can't take John humphries in the morning though, up himself
Neither Miley Cyrus or Slipknot are to be found in my music collection.
I have subsequently listened to Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - charismatic ace pilot, who at 95 had led a life and a half.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04nvgq1
In terms of the other Radio 4 podcasts, I like 'A Good Read' and 'World Book Club', as well as some of the shorter 8-9 minute podcasts like 'Inheritance Tracks' and 'Witness'. The latter covers aspects of relatively recent historical events and, as the name suggests, features testimony from those involved at the time (some of it from the archives). All manner of historical events are featured - e.g. Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution, The Big Bang, Exposing Child Abuse in the Catholic Church, Race Riots in Liverpool, The First CIA Coup in Latin America, the Wayne Bobbitt Story and his wife's subsequent trial (hard to forget that one), Smoking and Lung Cancer (the early research), the Battle for Mixed Race Marriage in the US (now featured in the film 'Loving'), The 1968 Thalidomide Trial in Germany, Kim Philby: The Third Man, Angela Merkel (her early career as a young East German scientist, under the watchful eye of the Stasi), the inadvertent discovery of Viagra, The Plot against Harold Wilson and The Sale of London Bridge.
Can't wait......
Seriously though,
Sir Bobby Robson and sir Brad were both excellent to listen to.
I'd never heard of him until just now so that's my poor excuse.
I think the R4 Dramas are 50-50. There is a good one on at the moment Red & Blue about War Games. The episode this week was about Flu epidemic. pretty insightfull view of the state of street markets in Hong Kong and China.