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Post by The Doctor on Dec 28, 2019 11:44:00 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 28, 2019 11:47:19 GMT
I listened to this a while ago. Hear how Matthew Sweet confirms the presence of Roger Delgado in Q2!
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 29, 2019 18:57:13 GMT
Enjoyed listening to Goldfinger on the morning commute today. -Ralph From Russia With Love also good. What a cliffhanger! Thunderball tomorrow. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 3, 2020 22:24:24 GMT
The radio version of Dad's Army: The Deadly Attachment is currently on BBC Sounds. All must hear it for That Line.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 11, 2020 19:38:16 GMT
50's sci-fi drama ORBITER X is currently on BBC Sounds. Pinwig: it is a bit like JOURNEY INTO SPACE.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 12, 2020 1:09:10 GMT
It is indeed. I already have nice recordings from previous broadcasts. Good series. Not JIS, but above average for BBC sci fi of that era.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 14, 2020 7:34:48 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 14, 2020 12:29:33 GMT
This means there are only three full length Fleming novels left that haven't been done with Stephens as Bond (Casino Royale, You Only Live Twice and The Spy Who Loved Me). Taken 12 years so far, but that's nine done.
(You Only Live Twice was done before this series as a one off with Michael Jayston as Bond).
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 14, 2020 13:38:46 GMT
This means there are only three full length Fleming novels left that haven't been done with Stephens as Bond (Casino Royale, You Only Live Twice and The Spy Who Loved Me). Taken 12 years so far, but that's nine done. (You Only Live Twice was done before this series as a one off with Michael Jayston as Bond). 'The Spy Who Loved Me' doesn't feature James Bond until late in the story, and is told from a female perspective, so may not lend itself that well to Stephens. But it has been read as an audiobook by Stephens' fellow 'Die Another Day' villain, Rosamund Pike (speaking with an American accent). Martin |
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 14, 2020 14:54:07 GMT
That's interesting. Over the last few years I've been reading the Bond novels in publication order. The last one I did was Thunderball, so it's The Spy Who Loved Me next. I didn't know about the perspective change.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 14, 2020 18:47:46 GMT
And yet it's not on BBC Sounds, unlike the other Bond plays. But then that has been very flakey of late. -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 14, 2020 23:07:35 GMT
I don't know how the sounds app works, but it is on iPlayer and can be played. Can you access it by looking for drama generally as opposed to Bond specifically?
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 15, 2020 8:25:50 GMT
Can only be found by title. Can't be found if you search Bond and did not appear in my Bond subscription feed. Mad. Would not have known it existed if not for here.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 15, 2020 9:06:46 GMT
Yes, I think they have a problem there generally. If a new page is created for a series that has another one elsewhere then the two don't know about each other. Like I reckon that Bond subscription you have is just to the short series of Bond related programmes they did recently. This new play is not connected to that, so it doesn't appear in it. Which makes no sense but needs someone at their end to join the dots.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 23, 2020 16:51:42 GMT
New Milton Jones series starts tonight at 6.30 on Radio 4.
Martin
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 5, 2020 19:42:43 GMT
Being an Archers addict I've been finding it quite comical that life in Ambridge thus far has been totally unaffected by Covid-19. I read that for April the BBC are dropping from six to five episodes a week, which will see the soap through on its existing virus-free storylines until the end of the month, then in May because the cast can record from their own homes, they're continuing the series in a reduced 'social distancing aware' format.
This of course is of no interest to anyone at all except me, but I just wanted to cheer the continued broadcast of the world's greatest soap. Hurrah!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 5, 2020 20:03:59 GMT
Audio productions are better placed than cinema, film or theatre to keep going in these circumstances. Good!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 5, 2020 20:15:31 GMT
Yes, the changes Radio 4 have announced to their schedule seem minimal compared to TV. Even The Now Show just about works without an audience.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 10, 2020 21:27:19 GMT
Pretty good. I enjoyed that. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 20, 2020 20:40:37 GMT
BBC Sounds app is buggered once again. Now new episodes in subs don't show up in anything other than the Drama strand. Episodes in series show up out of order again. Sigh. I really do miss the Radio Iplayer. It was so much more reliable.
-Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on Apr 20, 2020 21:37:13 GMT
Would an RSS feed reader work better? I tend to use Feedly to manage my podcast subscriptions.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 21, 2020 8:57:27 GMT
I generally access BBC Radio on my phone.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 10, 2020 12:58:10 GMT
13 MINUTES TO THE MOON is a good BBC World Service documentary series. Season 1 covers Apollo 11. Season 2 covers Apollo 13.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 23, 2020 11:12:59 GMT
EARTHSEARCH II finished on BBC Sounds. Much better than series 1 and a million times better than the BF prequel.
BBC Sounds played episode 2 before episode 1!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 23, 2020 11:18:52 GMT
I love both series of Earthsearch. In fact I love anything James Follett generally. I have both series of that on spectacular audio cassette!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 27, 2020 18:40:33 GMT
Phil, heard this and thought of you: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l7qhCracking episode. Jeremy Hardy 'sings' Madonna's 'Hanky Panky' to the tune of 'Land of Hope and Glory'. Martin |
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 29, 2020 16:23:14 GMT
This of course is of no interest to anyone at all except me, but I just wanted to cheer the continued broadcast of the world's greatest soap. Hurrah! It's hard going though. Dull as ditch water and well lampooned on Dead Ringers. I appreciate the effort in keeping it going, but it's now told through interlinked monologues. There's only so long you can listen to characters mulling over their thoughts or one sided telephone calls. |
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 29, 2020 16:46:33 GMT
'The Spy Who Loved Me' doesn't feature James Bond until late in the story, and is told from a female perspective, so may not lend itself that well to Stephens. Anyway, the reason why I came to this thread. I've been reading this over the last couple of days. I see what you mean. It would be quite hard to dramatise that and make a 90 minute play out of it. Even the short action sequence involving Bond at the end is much more drawn out than it should be for his character, based around the 'I can't kill in cold blood' line. It's an... odd book, definitely a period piece in so far as Fleming's writing from a female perspective doesn't pass muster today, but I liked the idea of a story involving Bond being told completely from someone else's perspective because it keeps him distant and mysterious. That I suppose is the point - how this poor woman who's been abused so many times by men is finally saved by the hero, and even though he deserts her after shagging her like all the others she feels complete this time because he's so jolly marvelous. Yeah. Difficult to endorse that. |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 12, 2020 2:09:19 GMT
Too hot to sleep in Cardiff tonight. And when I can't sleep, I put on the BBC World Service. Fascinating documentary just now about the way the brain interprets sound: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct0wpcMartin |
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 27, 2020 21:36:27 GMT
Very pleased to read that Andy Zaltzman has been given the News Quiz chair permanently. I know his approach hasn't been as traditional as previous chairs, but I thought this last series of the News Quiz was by far the best of the three this year. His satire has an intelligent edge to it that Angela Barnes and Nish Kumar just didn't have. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/andy-zaltzman-news-quiz |
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