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OccasionalDucksAlso, Farming Today is almost always a great 15 minutes listening. I used to catch it on the way to work most days, and while I don’t miss that commute/those working hours, it is nice to hear the programme occasionally.
I like listening to the shipping forecast. I just don’t like being awake to do so.
At least it isn’t the early edition today.
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Sean RandallI only caught a little bit of last week's *In Touch* on #BBC #radio4. It was about gardening, which I don't really enjoy.
but what really caught my ear was the following exchange:
Peter (presenter): Sonia, are there specific tips you'd like to pass onto people?
Sonia: I mean I think Janis and Andrew (other panelists) have covered quite a lot of them, and obviously they have many more challenges than I do.
I presume those "many more" challenges are because the other 2 panelists were totally blind rather than partially sighted. The sheer ... gall of the simple acceptance of that statement really, really got under my skin.
The supreme irony is that Sonia then goes on to describe how she has to put her hand up before she stands because in some light conditions, she can't see what she's about to hit her head on.
Now I could be barking up the wrong tree, I haven't heard the rest of the episode to know if the challenges are mentioned in further detail. But if not, and it's purely a competition of the visual? That's a rather poor show.
Simon WaltersAt 2:57:40 in the programme, you can listen to @drlucyrogers talking on yesterday's #Radio4 #Today programme
“The idea of e-learning, that having an iPad is going to make learning easier, there’s good data again suggests that the introduction of iPads in schools and everyone is going to learn other laptops has actually decreased test scores. And we now know that one of the privileges of going to a private school is now that you’re much more likely to learn with a pen and a paper, and a teacher standing at the front of the class teaching you rather than on a screen.”
Listen to the preceding episode that informs this Q&A and then to the other series about the importance of reading that both of them refer to as well!
This is an excellent little series y’all should listen to.
LorrySince the demise of #Radioarchive and the other #Cheops sites, is there anywhere to get some of that old #BBC #Radio4 stuff?
It's kind of ironic that the BBC calls out to people who have preserved their stuff in the past to fill in programme gaps for stuff that they then sell, and yet do their damndest to stop archivists preserving things that have now ended up lost again.
Ever since I lost my old iPod with the 48 hour version of "This Sceptred Isle" on it, I have been trying to find it again. There are plenty of torrents with 0 seeds and no "last seen" info, and I think even the abridged one is gone from Archive.org so unless someone has copies, it's just on its way to becoming yet another lost show, that I partly paid for.
Grrr.
#History of #Britain #UK #Museum #Curation #Collecting #LostMedia #Radio no #Podcast #ThisSceptredIsle
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