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In honour of the late great Barry Cryer, who has gone to laugh filthily at us all down below in perpetuity.
From Dead Ringers, April 2007
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Want to listen to something other than news? There is SO MUCH to listen to these days I despair of ever catching up. The list linked above is only the start – it’s all I could cram into a post before I had to get back to work.
ooh, i hove some of these on my list already, will check out the others
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Hello Mr. Gaiman! I really liked Playing in the Dark, will it ever be available again? And where could I find the story with the genie and the girl who doesn't need anything? Thank you!
I don't know. It's the BBC's. I would love it if they brought it out on CD.
The story is the October Story, in a sequence called A Calendar of Tales, and it's in a book called Trigger Warning.
i would LOVE if it came out on cd, or even if it was just made available to stream indefinitely.
I’ll leave it to those who are more familiar with dracula stories to evaluate that aspect of this.
@holmesianscholar it’s not sherlock music, but it’s a very interesting conversation about music & composition. Also, if anyone hasn’t already listened to this whole podcast, it’s extremely well done.
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It does rather look like he’s reacting to something I said…
PLAYING IN THE DARK will go out completely on BBC Radio 3 from 7:30 to 10:30pm on December 23rd.
It will go out in two slightly trimmed halves on BBC Radio 4, on the early morning on the 25th of December and the afternoon of January 1st.
Hear David Tennant being Crowley and Aziraphale and a Scottish narrator…
You will be able to listen to each programme for 28 days after it goes up. Anywhere in the world.
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DJ Martin Freeman returns to BBC Radio 6 Christmas Week!
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Festive Highlights for 2019 on BBC Radio and BBC Sounds
BBC Radio and BBC Sounds announce their on-air and on-demand highlights for the festive period
Martin Freeman
Saturday 26 - Tuesday 31 December, 1pm-4pm
Martin Freeman returns to 6 Music to present a series of six three-hour long programmes between Christmas and New Year. As we head towards 2020, Martin will spend each day focussing on a different decade, from the 1960s to now, playing you some of the music that he loves from each era.
From 1pm each afternoon, he begins with the 1960s (26 December), with the ‘70s (27 Dec), the ‘80s (28 Dec), the ‘90s (29 Dec), Noughties (30 Dec) and finally the 10s on New Year’s Eve.
A self-confessed music obsessive, Martin has dug deep into his record collection to bring listeners the tracks that mean something to him. He’ll also be taking a look back at the stories and cultural moments from each decade, picking a soundtrack from one of his favourite films each day, and selecting an album from each decade that he thinks deserves an extra bit of light.
There’ll also be some interview and session highlights from the BBC archive to enjoy as he moves through the years.
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Glenda Jackson and Kit Harington star in a BBC Radio 4 production of @neil-gaiman ‘s Chivalry. It will air on December 25 from 4pm to 4.30pm.
“Neil Gaiman’s delightfully quirky story, in which Mrs Whitaker discovers the Holy Grail in a charity shop.
In this sweet and funny tale, Mrs Whitaker meets her dear friend Mrs Greenberg for a chat over home-made macaroons. But her charity shop find soon makes her the focal point of a most important quest.
When a handsome young man who says he’s called Galaad comes asking for the Grail, he ends up helping out with the gardening and heavy lifting around the house.”
Neil has also confirmed on twitter that you can listen from all over the world. It’s not restricted to the UK.
Chivalry is after the Queen’s Speech on BBC Radio 4.
At 7 am on Xmas Day on Radio 4 you can listen to highlights from the PLAYING IN THE DARK readings and music we did, including David Tennant reading some of Good Omens.
You can listen to it anywhere in the world they have internet.
I remember being a lonely 22 year old, writing through the Christmas season in a mostly empty house, with BBC Radio 4 keeping me company (there was a sequel to Cold Comfort Farm on that year, I remember) while I wrote short stories nobody would ever read. It’s nice, and odd, to feel that I’ve given something back.
yay!
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Martin Freeman will be hosting the White Album on 26 September at 2100 BST on BBC Radio 2's week long celebration of The Beatles.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07ky4ty
According to the BBC page, this will be available for listening online for 29 days -- if I’ve got the arithmetic correct, that means until Oct 25 2019.
I’m listening while I type ...
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
Damn, none of y’all were born yet, even your parents mostly had not been born yet. I feel old. I am old.
But as Martin says “[the album] has cast its spell over successive generations”.
So, enjoy!
I **LOVE** the beeb's streaming service. Every program streams for 30 days after it airs, and a lot of the factual programs stay up forever, others as podcast you can d/l. It looks like they are expanding the number of programs that continue to stream, too. Like, i have been listening to episodes of desert island discs from the 1970s recently! There is every kind of program you can imagine and then some. Music, comedy, drama, science, documentary, history, current events, etc. Check it out!
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god i wish geoffrey whitehead holmes was on dvd
Go to Amazon & buy it? It’s not as if the DVD doesn’t exist? Seriously, kids, don’t believe what YouTube tells you. I know that it says “rare”, however, as Sherlock Holmes would say: “Most people are idiots.”
Don’t be an idiot and buy the DVD.
good to know!
Checked amazon for you, @sarahthecoat : if you order now, it will be there on Tuesday. Complete series on DVD, remastered. Seriously, you’ll be blown away by the colour. It’s something to say the least.
And when you got hooked on Geoffrey Whitehead by then, start with The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. He was Moriarty here, and preceeds Andrew Scott’s. I know that even his wikipedia entry forgot to mention this jewel of #moreholmes, idiots. It’s the one with “flashing ypur ankles at your fellow soldiers”. Also, the “I’m not gay”-shouting at Mrs Hudson. And so on. It’s queer as fuck, you’ve been warned ;)
Lastly, if you say: I recall the name…? Geoffrey Whitehead joined a BBC radio play called Cabin Pressure, staring alongside Benedict Cumberbatch.
Oh yes, i have recognized geoffrey whitehead from cabin pressure and several other radio dramas on bbc!
The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, as it is a BBC radio production, @sarahthecoat ;)
Among others, oh, the one I always rec is the peepolykus!holmes aka a comic version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. It got recorded by the BBC, aka the one with Johnlock canon.
oh yes, i just finished listening to series 2 of the newly discovered, they are so funny!
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Good Omens - Episode 1, Episode 1 - @bbcradio4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04knthd
It's waiting for you..
For those outside of the UK, there’s a YouTube channel uploading the episodes one by one that you can find here! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP5-HMtn4GE
For those outside the UK, you can also listen to it on the BBC page I linked to. It plays anywhere in the world. And if you listen to it on the BBC site, they will know that people all over the world are listening and that it is successful, and they will put it up again, and put up things like it, like replaying Anansi Boys, or Neverwhere. Which they won’t if people are listening to it on YouTube, where the BBC cannot track any success metrics....
I’m not trying to shame the previous poster, who is trying to be helpful. I’m just trying to remind all of you that the BBC is broadcasting Radio for Free to EVERYWHERE, and that you listening to it on their platform makes a difference.
Here’s a link to the main GOOD OMENS Radio page, with links to the actual episodes along with a lot of bonus content: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04knt4h
Signal boost. The bbc family of websites is the most enormous treasure trove of audio content you can imagine. Everything streams for a month after it airs, and a lot of the science & documentary programs stay up indefinitely, and/or are available to d/l as podcasts. Video programs may be restricted to the UK (or if you have a vpn) but audio is not.
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Cabin Pressure, Series 3 Episode P: Paris
“You all right, Douglas?” “Fine, thank you.”
Burnt up a lot of rendering time on Limerick, but I think a sketch suffices for this scene …
Paris is once again listenable, until 23 July 2019 – Enjoy!
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If you are looking for audio delights, I have scavenged the BBC radio lineups to fill your grab-bag here.
ah, i've been listening to several of these! I can attest to the quality of the Alice, having listened a couple times before.
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Watch out, she’s back on the radio, and has Things for your eardrums!
aha, thanks for the reminder about JFSP!
In related news, the bbc radio drama of cold comfort farm has been up for a couple weeks and was fun to listen to again. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00bz71l/episodes/player
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Do you know if the BBC is planning any kind of cd or digital download release for “With Great Pleasure?” I loved Peter Capaldi’s reading of “The Magic Wood” and am dying to hear it again.
I loved it too – I don’t know, though. And The Magic Wood was a bonus extra, so it might not go up even if they did release the show.
This is still up, though: