BBC Radio 4Aug 9, 2023

📖 According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, the world will end on a Saturday. A Saturday quite soon, in fact.

The whole of our six-part adapation of @neilhimself and Terry Pratchett's wonderful 1990 fantasy Good Omens is on BBC Sounds now - and you can listen from anywhere in the world. Tell your friends, good or evil.

#NeilGaiman #TerryPratchett #fantasy #drama #funny #GoodOmens
https://bbc.in/3qgSXt7

BBC Sounds - Good Omens - Available Episodes

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Show threadDetour
@BBCRadio4 Oh Hell Yeah BBCR4's Actually Posting Here! I Listen On 198 All The Time!
Aug 9, 2023 at 2:49pmWeb
Show threadBBC Radio 4Aug 9, 2023
@Detour 198 rocks, of course, but I'm sorry to say the long wave transmitter's going to be switched off next year. Do you have the BBC Sounds app on your phone?
Show threadDetourAug 10, 2023
@BBCRadio4 I'm Afraid Neither Of My Phones Support BBC Sounds, 1 Is A NOKIA And The Other's A BlackBerry.
Show threadJoshAug 10, 2023
@Detour @BBCRadio4 There's still FM at least. An app for a proprietary platform shouldn't ever become the primary means of accessing a public service, and since we are gradually going in that direction I'd rather not use it. I know there's a website too (and DAB) but everywhere nags about the app. Nope for me. And I'm in my 30s!
Show threadDetourAug 10, 2023
@krnlg @BBCRadio4 I'm Definitely With You On This 1. The App Cannot Be The Main Access Method, Especially When We Have Other Very Suitable Widespread Technology To Listen.

Even Just With Radio, As Much As FM Is Convenient For My Car, Reception Is Dead Indoors, And Even If We Ignore The Extremely Low Quality Stream, DAB Is A Mess Which Breaks Up All The Time Even With An Outside Antenna. LW Is King.
Show threadSimon LucyAug 10, 2023

@BBCRadio4 @Detour

After an internal battle of 30 years and the myopia that those that can't receive FM or DAB are bound to have Internet.

LW was the emergency bandwidth, do we think an internet connection is more likely to work than a long wave transmitter? That feels like hubris.

I imagine nuclear submarine commander orders have had to change.

Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Aug 11, 2023

@simon_lucy Is DAB still going?

@Detour @BBCRadio4

Show threadSimon LucyAug 11, 2023

@clacke @BBCRadio4 @Detour

Oh yes, everyone doubled down on DAB, as it's over the 50% coverage the Gov has to decide on the future and the switch off of FM and AM. Given the gaps in coverage I can't see that happening soon and there's no budget to either switch horses or strand about a third of the population.