MetaFilter posts tagged with Radio4

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not_on_display — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:06:42 -0800

Bigipedia--it's like listening to Wikipedia on the radio--is also available on the web (for those of you whose radios do not support multiple-voice broadcasts).

What Musick is there that compar'd may be To well-tun'd Bells enchanting melody!

Helga-woo — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:14:55 -0800

A thousand echos: Bells on Sunday from BBC Radio 4. Campanology is a dying art, despite having loyal devotees. Evan Davis learns how it's done. Here's a modern introduction to bell ringing; here's something a bit older. Hint, it's a bit of maths (previously). The insomniacs' Sunday special from the BBC, see also.

Doctor Who and the Terrence Dicks Novelisation of the Earth!

Artw — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:34:17 -0800

On The Outside It Looked Like An Old- Fashioned Police Box - Mark Gatiss presents a Radio 4 documentary on the Target novelisations of Doctor Who stories. Free Doctor Who eBooks.

Punkcast

Kattullus — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:00:52 -0800

Punkcast is a long running series of videos of live underground music in NYC shot by Joly MacFie. Each video is usually one song. The Internet Archive hosts its videos and offers downloads in a variety of formats. MacFie also has a YouTube channel with 480 videos and a video podcast [iTunes link, feedburner link]. Here are a few bands that caught my fancy: The Icicles and The Besties, The Slits (1, 2 ), Andrew W. K., Oneida (1, 2), The Long Blondes, The Gossip, Acid Mothers Temple & Cosmic Inferno, Art Brut, Be Your Own Pet, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Lesbians on Ecstasy, The Fall, Fred Frith, Rose Melberg and Jennifer O'Connor, The Horrors, The Homosexuals, Bat for Lashes, Radio 4 and Teddybears, Kimya Dawson and Tiny Masters of Today, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Nikki Sudden.

Jazz legend Lyttelton dies at 86

verisimilitude — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:45:12 -0800

Humphrey Lyttelton has died. Musician, cartoonist, journalist and chairman of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

Dead Western Christian white males galore!

Aloysius Bear — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:50:25 -0800

Explore a thousand years of classical music in 30 fifteen-minute programmes on BBC Radio 4.

The I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Info Site

chrismear — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:40:10 -0800

The I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Info Site. A huge collection of short transcripts and one-liners from the perennial antidote to panel games, organised by game and category -- including some never-before broadcast! Personal favourites are the One Song To The Tune Of Another introductions and the "while Samantha"s.