Thought you had the last word there…
Must be via satellite from Neasden🛎
East of Neasden?
North Korea
If I asked if you were getting your Norks out, would that be misunderstood?
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oh if that were only true - thing is a chap that clever would be travelling first class - unless they both were of course -
It’s a generational thing - I find very little on UK radio and tv today that makes me laugh or chuckle, in the way that it did back in the ‘good old days’.
Here in France, I listened to BBC radio 4 when I went to bed because I found the spoken voice soothes me to sleep. But BBC 4 has ‘comedy’ programmes late at night which simply leave me cold, and I cannot bear to listen to them.
I listen now to the voices on LBC or C-Span radio to send me off to sleep, and YouTube or SF for a bit of fun…!
Has BBC Radio 4 deteriorated then?
I have - don’t or can’t appreciate today’s humour…
I agree. Excruciatingly unfunny.
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I may be bald, but I still carry a comb.
I just can’t part with it.
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Exactly.
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You have to have been born at the beginning of the 1940s, like me, to have grown up with and appreciate this sort of humour on radio. They were very popular and still are apparently.
Unfortunately, I can’t post just one short episode – there seem to be multiple episodes in this clip. In fact, there are in excess of 150 hours covering 39 series on YouTube. Google interrupts the programmes with its adverts – for all the old codgers out there listening - money spinner for Google – best use an advert blocker.
I love Humph’s ‘name that barcode’ game.
I always loved Humphrey Lyttleton’s dry humour. From what I read his programmes were the smuttiest on radio.
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I loved ISIHAC but haven’t listened to it for a good 20 years.
“The antidote to paddle games” 
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I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue.
Sadly only one of those faces still alive today, the programme is still alive, though between series now, and is one of the few that have survived as funny with changes of personnel.
A classic example of one that has lost the plot is The News Quiz, just isn’t funny anymore so I stopped listening. Oh for the days of the late, great Alan Coren. No question where his excellent daughter gets her talent from. ( Victoria Coren-Mitchell)
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My grandson is 4 years old and learning Spanish, but he doesn’t even know the Spanish for “please” which I think is poor for four.
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I taught my daughters how to say hello, please, may I stroke your dog, thank you, and goodbye in every language they were likely to come across. Worked brilliantly, what I found marvellous was they could tell by looking at people which language to ask in, and rarely got it wrong.
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I don’t yearn for the past, but the past introduced me to those things that entertained me on radio and TV. That’s mostly gone now and what currently plays as comedy doesn’t ring my bell much these days. The reruns still do, but they resonate a little bit dated now.
If I had been born into the silent movie era, would I have had similar feelings when the talkies took over, leaving me behind?
Would I miss the lady playing the piano dramatically while cowboys on galloping horses swept across the movie screen….?