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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Keith G wrote:
Nowadays (although it's been a long time since I listened to a radio
play)

Good grief. You go on about crap TV - and now how good JIS was - but don't
listen to current drama on the radio? And you're often at home in the
afternoon? Try it. There's some superb stuff there.


Sorry to disabuse you but I rarely get an afternoon where I could just loll
around listening to the radio....



I find I 'fit' the characters with the 'nearest actor' in the
case of 'unknowns' - which is another way TV craps up radio!

Not always these days. I've a feeling that radio casting sometimes takes
into account the looks of the actor - as chances are many will know that
from TV.



You're saying that the BBC can predict which actor I will envisage when I
hear a particular *unknown* then?

(I didn't realise they were getting that sophisticated!)




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In article ,
Keith G wrote:
Good grief. You go on about crap TV - and now how good JIS was - but
don't listen to current drama on the radio? And you're often at home
in the afternoon? Try it. There's some superb stuff there.


Sorry to disabuse you but I rarely get an afternoon where I could just
loll around listening to the radio....

That's the beauty of radio - you can listen to it while doing other things.
Admittedly not things which require much concentration if a drama but then
just what are you concentrating so hard on in the afternoon?

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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Keith G wrote:
Good grief. You go on about crap TV - and now how good JIS was - but
don't listen to current drama on the radio? And you're often at home
in the afternoon? Try it. There's some superb stuff there.


Sorry to disabuse you but I rarely get an afternoon where I could just
loll around listening to the radio....

That's the beauty of radio - you can listen to it while doing other
things.


In theory yes; in practice no....


Admittedly not things which require much concentration if a drama but then
just what are you concentrating so hard on in the afternoon?


All sorts - this afternoon I was playing with/cleaning my bikes mostly in
the garage where I take great delight in the Roberts FM radio which
invariably kicks off with summat nice (Mahler, quite often) but I have to
admit, after a short while I'm not usually listening too closely! Same in
the car...


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On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:04:31 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Geoff Mackenzie wrote:
I've got the whole thing saved to hard disk somewhere, but I haven't been
able to get round to playing it - tbh, I have a little trouble taking
Alfie Bass too seriously!

Didn't David Kossof also play Lemmie...?

Andrew Faulds, Guy Kingsley Pointer and David Kossof were the originals,
IIRC.

I thought it was Alfie Bass.

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In article ,
Don Pearce wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:04:31 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Geoff Mackenzie wrote:
I've got the whole thing saved to hard disk somewhere, but I
haven't been able to get round to playing it - tbh, I have a
little trouble taking Alfie Bass too seriously!

Didn't David Kossof also play Lemmie...?

Andrew Faulds, Guy Kingsley Pointer and David Kossof were the originals,
IIRC.

I thought it was Alfie Bass.

Think he took over from Kossoff. Dunno why.

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On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:08:12 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Don Pearce wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:04:31 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Geoff Mackenzie wrote:
I've got the whole thing saved to hard disk somewhere, but I
haven't been able to get round to playing it - tbh, I have a
little trouble taking Alfie Bass too seriously!

Didn't David Kossof also play Lemmie...?

Andrew Faulds, Guy Kingsley Pointer and David Kossof were the originals,
IIRC.

I thought it was Alfie Bass.

Think he took over from Kossoff. Dunno why.

Listening recently, I was amused by the naivete of it all. Nobody
aboard seemed to understand how rockets worked; they could decide on a
whim to "go over there" despite the impossibility imposed by orbital
mechanics. Great adventure, though.

d

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I have a little trouble taking Alfie Bass too seriously!

He was great in Polanski's "Fearless Vampire Hunters"

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On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:25:34 +0000, Andy Evans wrote
(in message
):

A friend of mine used to be a dentist, and one of his patients turned
up one day complaining that he was receiving Radio 1 on one of his
fillings.

"At least", he pleaded, "could you change it to Radio 4?"


my ordinary cabled landline phone plays R4, which is kind-of
irritating; at least it's not dimwitted commercial pop radio