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Radio Roundup
Sep. 3rd, 2015 07:47 pmI'm doing the kind of work that requires all my attention these days, but have not failed not notice the mountain of awesomeness that is on the menu at the BBC. Someone at Radio 4 Extra is going mad in the archives and didn't get the memo about 'regulating the flow'.
COMEDY
99p Challenge - featuring Muppet Baby versions of Sue Perkins, Simon Pegg, Armando Iannucci, Peter Serafinowicz, and all the rest of them superstars. So silly. So brilliant.
Bigipedia 2.0 - the upgrade of the encyclo-social-cyber-friend; both completely barmy and the most apt audio approximation of the internet you are likely to find.
Radio Mustard - Did you know there was a second series of 2000 Years of Radio? I didn't, until this turned up! WWI radio for all you chippy chaps bollocking the Bosh.
Radio 9 - While I personally prefer the second series, I'm happy to see any acknowledgment of this surreal, often dark, but oddly genial sketch show.
Listen Against - Radio 4 is enough of a subculture that it can run an entire series of self-referential comedy without getting tired.
Old Harry's Game - I love to cite this show in explaining Radio 4 to people; here is a chance to get in on the ground floor as it's Ep 1 Series 1. Sitcom set in Hell. Starring Satan. Written by a comedian with an Oxford degree in Milton and keen observation skills.
That Mitchell & Webb Sound - Arguably the best double-act of our time, back on the radio with more fantastic sketches.
The Unbelievable Truth - One half of that double-act moderates a pack of liars, in an episode which rendered me incapacitated with giggles for the first time in years.
FACTUAL
Donald Duck Gets Drafted - Gerald Scarfe explores Disney Animation's contribution to WWII Allied propaganda.
Techniolour - An exploration of colour, its science and art.
Another Kind of Atheism - Looking into atheists of the past and how it doesn't have to mean being a mirror-image fundamentalist.
CBC's Ideas is always a fertile place to look for stimulating radio; having left it unexamined for the past few months I return to find I want to listen to every single one of those shows. So far I've managed War is a Drug, in which a respected war journalist talks profoundly about his subject, and Selkirk's Grant, about a Scottish aristocrat's settlement scheme for what would become Manitoba. How can anyone refuse a series with the title The Myth of the Secular? Too much good stuff!
I'm sure I'm missing loads, but that's something to be getting on with ...
COMEDY
99p Challenge - featuring Muppet Baby versions of Sue Perkins, Simon Pegg, Armando Iannucci, Peter Serafinowicz, and all the rest of them superstars. So silly. So brilliant.
Bigipedia 2.0 - the upgrade of the encyclo-social-cyber-friend; both completely barmy and the most apt audio approximation of the internet you are likely to find.
Radio Mustard - Did you know there was a second series of 2000 Years of Radio? I didn't, until this turned up! WWI radio for all you chippy chaps bollocking the Bosh.
Radio 9 - While I personally prefer the second series, I'm happy to see any acknowledgment of this surreal, often dark, but oddly genial sketch show.
Listen Against - Radio 4 is enough of a subculture that it can run an entire series of self-referential comedy without getting tired.
Old Harry's Game - I love to cite this show in explaining Radio 4 to people; here is a chance to get in on the ground floor as it's Ep 1 Series 1. Sitcom set in Hell. Starring Satan. Written by a comedian with an Oxford degree in Milton and keen observation skills.
That Mitchell & Webb Sound - Arguably the best double-act of our time, back on the radio with more fantastic sketches.
The Unbelievable Truth - One half of that double-act moderates a pack of liars, in an episode which rendered me incapacitated with giggles for the first time in years.
FACTUAL
Donald Duck Gets Drafted - Gerald Scarfe explores Disney Animation's contribution to WWII Allied propaganda.
Techniolour - An exploration of colour, its science and art.
Another Kind of Atheism - Looking into atheists of the past and how it doesn't have to mean being a mirror-image fundamentalist.
CBC's Ideas is always a fertile place to look for stimulating radio; having left it unexamined for the past few months I return to find I want to listen to every single one of those shows. So far I've managed War is a Drug, in which a respected war journalist talks profoundly about his subject, and Selkirk's Grant, about a Scottish aristocrat's settlement scheme for what would become Manitoba. How can anyone refuse a series with the title The Myth of the Secular? Too much good stuff!
I'm sure I'm missing loads, but that's something to be getting on with ...
