h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

There is a posting about what great BBC productions have been made: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F19585?thread=8252754 However I noticed, it being a sign of the times, it was totally TV orientated. So what great Radio has the BBC produced? My childhood favourites where, in no particular order: The Goons. Round the Horne. The Brandons. The clitheroe Kid Sing Something Simple. but it finished off the weekend> Starts getting fuzzy then. But it was nearly 50 years ago. Now it's ClassicFm. So over to you. Your Favourites? MMF o/~

>>However I noticed, it being a sign of the times, it was totally TV orientated.<<

Make that almost totally. .

Carry on!!!


MMF

Beyond Our Ken

As I recall:
It was the quick thinking brilliance of very funny
and educated people who would create (ad lib)the most
imaginative stories just so they could dash off a
multi-word pun as a punch line. The moderator or
presenter would give them long book or movie titles
or an old adage or saying and they would shaggy dog
the most magnificent tales before pouncing with the
final side-splitting punning of the given line.

But it seems there was more to it than that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkIw-1lbzuU

Or am I misremembering another program that might
have been called My Word or somesuch?


~jwf~

Hitchhiker's Guide

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue

The News Quiz

The Now Show

Week Ending

Saturday Night Fry

Friday Rock Show

John Peel Show

Definately the goons would have to be in there, even though I'm too young to have listened to it when it was aired live... but thanks to repeats and now the dedicated radio four extra station, which is (I seem to recall) full of repeats of the old stuff I get to hear them
More recently, pretty much any of the 6.30 comedy slot shows... Claire in the community was good, and the one set in the record shop... and ... yeh most of those ones...

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (I keep meaning to apply for tickets to see it live actually).

I liked the new Paul Temple series they did (last year? the year before?) on R4.

Er, It'll all be radio four stuff. Mainly comedy, a few dramas and I love GQT (Gardeners' Question Time) and Beyond Belief. Plus, I have to say I do listen to the archers now. Not religiously like some people, but the sunday omnibus gets an airing now I don't hear it every day at work!

Oh, The news quiz too...

I've never really forgiven Radio 4 for axing Weekending and Stop the Week - I used to listen to them while cooking a nice dinner for me and DH, as young wife In fact I don't think we've had a romantic Saturday dinner since

All the comedy programmes. No, really. And I'm sure it was Radio 4 that introduced me to both Garrison Keillor and Pepys (although not at the same time).

Mol

Oh. I posted to that other thread and suggested the Goon Show. Not having lived in the UK for over 30 years, I didn't realise that it was all TV programmes being mentioned.

After reading this thread, too, I would add John Peel.

Yeah - the Goons and John Peel. What more do you need?

And my personal addition from programmes still currently running would be In Our Time.

Happy listening everyone.

As above plus:-

Horrible People
Just A minute
Dick Barton
The Paul Temple Mysteries
Raffles
Lord Peter Wimsey
Weekending
DeadRingers(before it went to TV)
Jammin'

Oh, The Mighty Peel undoubtedly.

But currently, Eddie Mair and FOOC.




Favourite Eddie Mair moment, on the discovery of electronic surveillace in the cars of Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness:

~Sinn Fein say the British government are buggers.~

My favourite radio series ever, Elastic Planet.

Oh, and as you mentioned Eddie Mair, BH's finest moment was surely, at the height of the Gilligan business, 'sexing up' the Dodgy Dossier by having passages from it read out by Fenella Fielding...

Well, my favourite ever, and unmissable on (I think) Tuesday evenings, was

Journey into Space.

There was always The Goon Show, and Dick Barton, Special Agent of course.

Also, Sunday afternoons there were a series of programmes that would fill the afternoon. I’d really like to see some old copies of the Radio Times just to see what I’m missing. No particular order but they included,
Ray’s a Laugh.
Down Your Way
Riders of the Range

There was for a while a serial that pre-dated JiS which was also ‘Space’ orientated which I've been trying for years to remember the name of, and would give good money to hear again.

Deke

Can you narrow down the year/date/time at all, Deke? I can search for it in press TV/Radio listings.

Reithian Values were famously summed up by the mantra of Peels producer, John Walters:

~Were not here to give people what they want! Were here to give them what they dont *know* they want!~




I think the nadir or radio jas to be Quote Unquote. Or possibly Ewan Jaws.

Hi Icy.

I doubt you’ll have much luck with this one as it‘s just too long ago to remember really, and it probably only ran a few (consecutive) weeks.

It was probably late 40s, early 50s. Sorry I can’t be any closer than that. I’m fairly sure it pre-dated Journey into Space which was first aired in 1953. It was definitely Sunday afternoons though. It was a ‘space’ based tale. I can’t remember the title, but it might have had the word ‘Booster’ in it. That word featured large in the story line, it was the name of the rocket.

Y’know what? I can’t even remember what the storyline was now.

Around the same time I think there were those programmes listed above as well as ’Take it from here’ and ’Life with the Lyons’

Good luck

Deke

Does "The Other Side of the Sun" sound familiar?

http://missingepisodes.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=radio&action=display&thread=3094

Ah yes - Sunday afternoons. I'm Sorry I'll Read that Again. Dates me rather Post-Deke. For comfort listening (no cultural or intellectual value implied): The Navy Lark.

Radio 7 is worth a listen...I tend to via iplayer...oh, sorry Radio 4 Extra...or 'Radio 7 with not as much old stuff as there used to be on it'.

I used to be able to spend hours doing housework at the weekend listening to radio 7 stuff...now there's just not the stuff there used to be to interest me on Radio 4 Extra. However, there are still loads of gems on it.