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Post by Pinwig on Feb 27, 2019 21:32:21 GMT
Space Force is wonderful. The first series particularly.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 27, 2019 21:55:45 GMT
Space Force II is best. Much better than Journey Into Space.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 2, 2019 11:26:13 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 14, 2019 20:49:00 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 24, 2019 19:12:51 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 5, 2019 9:37:46 GMT
Gulliver's Travels has been on the Beeb. Jonathan Swift was not a happy chap!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on May 10, 2019 18:14:56 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on May 11, 2019 12:10:35 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 15, 2019 12:24:12 GMT
Thanks to Radio Iplayer I got to experience THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN (Fletcher with Shakespeare doing bits, may be the last play he contributed to). Now I know why this play is so obscure and little discussed. It's pump! Bill went out with a whimper.  Production is good but they can't save it. Two chaps go on about how great their love for each other is. Endlessly. Bugger all happens. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on May 24, 2019 18:31:24 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on May 24, 2019 18:50:13 GMT
Aw man. I didn't know Edward Kelsey had died. Shame.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 10, 2019 7:40:50 GMT
Good Omens has been on the radio. I just don't think the source material is any good now I have tried it in different formats. The Gaimon effect. It's not funny, characters vanish and re-appear on a whim.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 10, 2019 11:50:28 GMT
Aw man. I didn't know Edward Kelsey had died. Shame. The Archers is yet to acknowledge this, however the family his character was part of is really being put through the wringer at the moment so I expect this will come in as another plot point to kick them further. His character hasn't been mentioned or heard from for months. They won't recast him, his character was over a hundred anyway. |
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 11, 2019 12:31:59 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 28, 2019 21:45:26 GMT
Boo. The BBC have finally discontinued their splendid BBC Radio Iplayer app so users now have to migrate to the BBC Sounds App to keep listening. My word, it's awful. Who designed this thing??? Why break what was not broken? It looks ugly as hell, is not as intuitive, displays less useful information and most importantly it is more difficult to find radio shows. Dear oh dear!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 28, 2019 22:49:31 GMT
That's a shame. I don't use the apps, being a little obsessive about not missing things I use the website each Saturday to check the schedule for R4 and R4e for the previous week, then use get iPlayer to download anything that sounds interesting. That then gets loaded onto the iPod for the following week, or stored for future listening.
Doing that emulates what I used to do with my trusty DAB aerial, which is sadly no longer supported on windows 10.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 29, 2019 10:00:22 GMT
It was easy to keep track of shows I follow on the old app. Just one click in 'My Radio' and if they had lit up I knew there was a new episode to download. This was especially handy to keep track of shows that have erratic schedules ie Poirot is on and off randomly. What was also good is that with downloaded shows I could see with one glance how many days were left for each before they fell off the service. Now I have to go in and out of each show to see how many days are left.
It's a while since I have seen self-sabotage of an app like this! Sure the old one had room for improvement but it was reliable and easy to use. The Sounds one is not. Also: it looks really amateurish.
I am especially annoyed as my bloomin' bbx tax covers services like this.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 3, 2019 21:15:04 GMT
The 2005 series of Dixon of Dock Green is on the radio. It's quite nice.
Meanwhile, BBC Sounds has broken again. It is unable to accurately tell me how many days I have left before a show is deleted so I guess from memory. A basic function the old Radio Iplayer could tell me with one glance. Such a shite interface!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 3, 2019 21:44:10 GMT
I've bagged Dixon for later listening. David Calder!
This afternoon while sorting boxes in the loft I listened to the most recent Toby Stephens James Bond, Live and Let Die. That's eight of those they've done now, quite a body of work.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 5, 2019 17:59:40 GMT
PINWIG BEWARE.
BBC Sounds Shite has Dixon of Dock Green episode 6 before episode 5. As episode 6 is a proper series finale this ticked me off no end.
Episode 6 is, however, UNBEARABLY TENSE.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 5, 2019 19:36:49 GMT
Ok, ta. Are they labelled correctly? I will have to check if my downloaded episodes have titles.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 5, 2019 22:37:28 GMT
They are labelled correctly but BBC Sounds Shite put them in the wrong order.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 5, 2019 22:46:09 GMT
Ah, I'll be fine then. I've just got the files downloaded locally. I don't use BBC Sounds.
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 26, 2019 22:47:41 GMT
Sometimes I wonder if collecting toys is a little odd for a man in his forties, but I think we're safe chaps. Moneybox Live last week was on collecting, in which they interviewed a man with two and a half thousand bricks, and another with fifteen thousand milk bottles.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 23, 2019 13:06:10 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 23, 2019 14:44:31 GMT
I was surprised to find recently when looking for that short story reading project they started last year that there are now quite a few full length novels on BBC Sounds as audiobooks. I mean to give that one a listen.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 23, 2019 22:08:06 GMT
Yes they seem to have suddenly popped up. Book at Bedtime can be good though is always abridged.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 27, 2019 7:11:55 GMT
Goldfinger, Thunderball, Moonraker and From Russia With Love adaptations on BBC Sounds.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 27, 2019 9:51:54 GMT
All excellent. I'm glad the BBC have kept up with those over the years. Because Toby Stephens has played the lead in all of them they make a nice run with a consistent feel.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 27, 2019 10:29:40 GMT
Enjoyed listening to Goldfinger on the morning commute today.
-Ralph
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