MOST PEOPLE SPEND SUNDAYS putting up shelves, baking cakes... (OK ladies not cakes: I mean peeling potatoes while the Archers omnibus is on, lighting the oven during Desert Island Discs and sweating away over a hot stove doing ye olde Sunday roast all afternoon... whereas I have made a short and selected (though it seemed to take up best part of an hour) international talk radio guide... really I did it for myself and have Australia's Radio National playing in my ear as I speak (barely past midday here: approaching midnight there. So you can listen to any of these selected stations including the best of the BBC live through your PC simply by clicking your option and selecting "listen live"... except for BBC7 (mostly plays, comedy and audiobook type readings) which asks you to "select player" I use Windows' own player and it works fine on this one...All that talk of food and I'm hungry... must go! Have a cheery Sunday everyone... unless you're in Australia in which case you'll have 22 minutes left as it's 12:38here meaning it's 11:38pm there (though what timezone he's chatting for I've no idea...) OK must be going... bye!
PS I didn't make airholes in the lollypop jar because (1) the lid was far too thick with binkybonky up-and-down poggled indents in the top in which to stand your lollies for display... I could make holes in the bottom and invert it on them and maybe I will... it's just I realized this will make it useless for the subsequent storing of anything airtight in later days e.g. my spices or something like that well I don't know I have to go my brain feels like a rotten apple core...
PPS: the world's best radio programme in my opinion is Outlook on the BBC world service. If you clickonit you can listen again they always have good stuff on... I think Heather Payton has the friendliest (and Australian-accented, incidentally) voice on the radio...
SONG: Madonna: Who's That Girl...
THanks for the links. I listen through the computer all the time, but these add to my options. Happy Sunday!
ReplyDeleteI was learning. I hate it. I will have break soon.
ReplyDeleteTuttut: I only listen to talk radio normally as music, well I get fed up of some playlisted selection I prefer INFORMATION BBC World service is good, also Radio 4 inimitable but v bourgeois
ReplyDeleteRopi: Don't get too bored listen to radio instead ;->...
HAHAA!!! Radio National is SO much better than those other Aussie stations! BUT don't listen past three in the afternoon Sydney time because thye music is HORRIBLE! The book readings are best ;) We have barbecues on a Sunday afternoon and the men cook! Yawn ... it's bluddy Monday here!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite Radio programme of all time is Dr. Karl on Triple J!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.triplej.net.au/
people/dr_karl.htm
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Dr. Karl answers all sorts of science questions every Thursday. I usually miss it so I download the Podcast.
Hi Gleds ~~ Shouldn't you be listening to YOUR station to see if
ReplyDeletethey use any of your answers etc.
The time is a mystery to me I think we are about 12 hours ahead of you
but no too sure. We go by Eastern Standard Time. whatever that means.
Thanks for your message/ All OK here
except that it is still too hot.
Take care, Very best wishes, Merle.
Radio DI.FM is best :-)
ReplyDeleteAnon: yeah I couldn't bring self to admit this but I had music (quite good world music but not as good as the stuff they play past 3:30am (local time) on BBC World Service... the best is from Mali and Senegal really funky and not at all "foreign" in spirit or expression... fantastic stuff... still I do generally far prefer "talk" stations as feel that music ends up all too often as a stopgap bc "we've run out of steam on this interview so have a record so I can go out for a fag"... know what I mean... I'm going to persist with that Radio National though... having trouble changing stations and STOPPING it streaming even if I got back to the Windows player & attempted to switch it off...
ReplyDeleteNicole: I will try that: excellent. Thanks!
Merle: Oh Merle I would go white and fall over backwards if I heard my nasty own voice booming out of my cheap FM speakers... seriously! They MIGHT have put my "station ident" as they jargonistically like to proclaim between travel and the weather but I couldn't be sure it was me (which was good; it meant I was sounding normal...)
Sally: Di? As in Lady Di..? Diana? Is it a local station?... on DAB or something?... what? Tell me more!!
;->...
HAPPY LISTENIN', EVERYONE!
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ReplyDeleteDi.Fm.... Digital imported internet radio
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Spam: LCD TV/whatever... I such prefer corned beef to yukky porky old spam. sorry
ReplyDeleteSally: hey can you explain how does that work? do you use an internet radio set? what's the point of them over just your pc's speakers? where do you find all the channels? or do you have to go to individual websites e.g. the bbc?... please tell I'm perplexed...
A message from my Slave about Mad Crocs and Englishmen ... BWARK!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.abc.net.au:80/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2191203.htm
Gidday! Anon is on holiday :)
Cheers! Lemme see what THAT's about...
ReplyDeleteHi, I came across your page in a search for Heather Payton, I don't think you'd be too happy to know that she and Frederick Dove will not be presenting Outlook anymore, instead a new guy Mathew Bannister is going to do it with Rithula Shah... I wonder why new presenters are coming... I'm feeling really sad...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/outlook/2008/03/080328_matthew_bannister.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/outlook/2008/01/080108_trailpage08_outlook.shtml
I think Fred Dove is still at the World Service. The W.S. seems to have scrubbed all references to Ms. Payton from the web site. Even the archived versions of Outlook are by Dove, none seem to be by Payton.
ReplyDeleteSo whatever happened to Heather Paynton? I heard a rumor She got caught in flagrante, whatever that is.
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