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Radio Roundup
I've been very busy, but not the sort of busy that takes a lot of radio to get through. Luckily a weekend spent drawing has coincided with a glut of good programming, so here's another Radio Roundup ...
FUNNY
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme - I mean, how can you say no. It's like ice cream, with or without slightly-off Disney characters on the side of the van. This episode has an unprecedented number of American accents.
Just a Minute - Mr Finnemore is back in a slightly more recent recording, in which he politely battles three veterans of this classic game of wits and rhetoric.
Facts and Fancies - Armando Iannucci has gone on to fame and (presumably) fortune producing comedy shows for TV, but this is a series of surreal comic essays from before all that, proving he Had It from day one.
Knocker - All the comedic potential of being a door-to-door market researcher.
The Rest is History - History-based comedy panel game, in which guests guess about historical things and an expert tells them what they got right.
The Unbelievable Truth - Fact-based comedy panel game, in which guests spout a stream of lies with some hidden truths, their co-panellists guess what those are, and the host tells them what they got right.
The News Quiz - There isn't anything particularly notable about this episode, just a reminder that the News Quiz is a thing that exists, and as long as it continues to do so, the world won't be all bad.
SERIOUS
Hamlet - I have a Definitive Hamlet so cannot judge any other equitably; however, this radio production isn't bad, so if you don't have my baggage you might really enjoy it.
Julius Caesar - You can hear the above's Hamlet as Marc Antony in this radio adaptation of a play for which I don't have prior baggage, and therefore am comfortable saying is quite good. It expires in just over a week, so listen quickly.
Beware of the Dog - Roald Dahl writes for grownups – a story about a downed airman in WWII and the benefits of joined-up thinking.
The Man Who Was Thursday - If you think ideological radicals blowing people up in public places is a recent phenomenon, check out G.K. Chesterton's rather exciting story about the infiltration of an anarchists' collective in the early 20th century.
Freud vs Jung - A nice in-depth hour-long documentary on the relationship between the famous fathers of psychology.
Habbakuk of Ice - WWII wasn't short of nutty ideas, but I hadn't heard of the battleship made of ice until this radio play came my way.
FUNNY
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme - I mean, how can you say no. It's like ice cream, with or without slightly-off Disney characters on the side of the van. This episode has an unprecedented number of American accents.
Just a Minute - Mr Finnemore is back in a slightly more recent recording, in which he politely battles three veterans of this classic game of wits and rhetoric.
Facts and Fancies - Armando Iannucci has gone on to fame and (presumably) fortune producing comedy shows for TV, but this is a series of surreal comic essays from before all that, proving he Had It from day one.
Knocker - All the comedic potential of being a door-to-door market researcher.
The Rest is History - History-based comedy panel game, in which guests guess about historical things and an expert tells them what they got right.
The Unbelievable Truth - Fact-based comedy panel game, in which guests spout a stream of lies with some hidden truths, their co-panellists guess what those are, and the host tells them what they got right.
The News Quiz - There isn't anything particularly notable about this episode, just a reminder that the News Quiz is a thing that exists, and as long as it continues to do so, the world won't be all bad.
SERIOUS
Hamlet - I have a Definitive Hamlet so cannot judge any other equitably; however, this radio production isn't bad, so if you don't have my baggage you might really enjoy it.
Julius Caesar - You can hear the above's Hamlet as Marc Antony in this radio adaptation of a play for which I don't have prior baggage, and therefore am comfortable saying is quite good. It expires in just over a week, so listen quickly.
Beware of the Dog - Roald Dahl writes for grownups – a story about a downed airman in WWII and the benefits of joined-up thinking.
The Man Who Was Thursday - If you think ideological radicals blowing people up in public places is a recent phenomenon, check out G.K. Chesterton's rather exciting story about the infiltration of an anarchists' collective in the early 20th century.
Freud vs Jung - A nice in-depth hour-long documentary on the relationship between the famous fathers of psychology.
Habbakuk of Ice - WWII wasn't short of nutty ideas, but I hadn't heard of the battleship made of ice until this radio play came my way.