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Humour: Tomorrow’s Technology Today – Work
From the HMFC Memorial Sound Archive we present another episode of the show, Tomorrow’s Technology Today from the archives. Listen to Episode Four here: Tomorrow’s Technology Today Episode 4: Work Painstakingly restored by Robin Catling and Victoria Pritchard, with the assistance of Studio 1919, Tomorrow’s Technology Today was a pioneering broadcast which ran from 1936 … Continue reading
Humour: Tomorrow’s Technology Today – Car
From the HMFC Memorial Sound Archive we present another episode of the show, Tomorrow’s Technology Today from the archives. Listen to Episode Three here: Tomorrow’s Technology Today Episode 3: Car Painstakingly restored by Robin Catling and Victoria Pritchard, with the assistance of Studio 1919, Tomorrow’s Technology Today was a pioneering broadcast which ran from 1936 … Continue reading
Humour: Tomorrow’s Technology Today – Cleaner
From the HMFC Memorial Sound Archive we present another episode of the show, Tomorrow’s Technology Today. from the archives. Listen to Episode Two here: Tomorrow’s Technology Today Episode 2: Cleaner Painstakingly restored by Robin Catling and Victoria Pritchard, with the assistance of Studio 1919, Tomorrow’s Technology Today was a pioneering broadcast which ran from 1936 … Continue reading
News: Long Wave Goodbye Radio 4 [Guest Post]
From Educare’s Random Subjects Made Simple No. 52 – Long wave goodbye Radio 4 Wednesday, March 6th, 2013 Picture the scene – the last words of the 7 o’clock news bulletin are read, the continuity announcer says a phrase that’s been heard on British radio for the last 62 years, ‘And now, the Archers.’ But … Continue reading
Humour: Tomorrow’s Technology Today Episode One
The first product of the HMFC Memorial Sound Archive is the collection of all the episodes known to survive of the radio show, Tomorrow’s Technology Today. Listen to Episode One here: Tomorrow’s Technology Today Episode 1: Computer Painstakingly restored by Robin Catling and Victoria Pritchard, with the assistance of Studio 1919, Tomorrow’s Technology Today was … Continue reading
Review: The Meaning of Liff at 30 (BBC Radio 4)
It’s 30 years since Douglas Adams (Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy) and John Lloyd (Blackadder, QI) wrote The Meaning of Liff, their dictionary of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist – all based on place names. John Lloyd talks to Matt … Continue reading
Review: Your World – The Culture of Gaming
Episode 1 of 2. BBC World Service. “Aleks Krotoski examines how computer gaming is affecting our culture – computer or videogames have been around for 40 years, but the wider cultural implications have tended to be glossed over in favour of discussion of the size of the gaming economy and concerns about games’ social impact. … Continue reading
Review: Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
Martin Jarvis performs ‘Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest’, the second of two of P.G. Wodehouse’s celebrated ‘New York’ stories, starring blithe Bertie Wooster and his urbane valet Jeeves. It was recorded in front of a live audience – a packed house at the Everyman Theatre – as a highlight of the 2010 Cheltenham Festival of … Continue reading
Review: The ‘arse that Jack Built – BBC Radio4
Ian McMillan goes on a quest to find one of Britain’s strangest linguistic features. Somewhere between Sheffield and Chesterfield, people stop saying house and say something that sounds a lot more like ‘arse. It’s an isogloss, a kind of linguistic boundary line where accent and dialect changes. Ian calls it the house / arse interface, … Continue reading
Reviews: October Highlights
So far this month: BBC private-sector spy drama Hunted continues to draw, despite the ludicrous Spooks style-plot holes. RC Ian Hislop’s series The British Stiff Upper Lip – An Emotional History of Britain. Catch it on iPlayer if you missed it. SC Snow White and the Huntsman out on DVD. Including a great closing song … Continue reading
Review: The History of the Future BBC Radio4
Juliet Gardiner looks at how cultures of the past viewed the possibilities of the future, and what these visions say about the pre-occupations of the time. Or as I like to call it – Where’s My Jetpack? Here’s a curious thing; a BBC Radio 4 documentary series that doesn’t appear to exist on iPlayer, Listen … Continue reading
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