Radio recommendations

Culture
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I know we have a thread like this for TV and Film, but not for radio, I don’t think so anyway.

I listen to radio all day long if it is available given what I am doing and where I am, and that really means Radio 4 at home. But there is one programme that for some unknown reason I haven’t listened to before and I heard it quite by chance today while doing something else.

It is called ‘The Naked Week’ and it is fronted by a very witty man called Andrew Hunter-Murray. He was probably, to me anyway, the least appreciated of the team of QI Elves that ran/runs a podcast called ‘No Such Thing as a Fish’, which I use to listen to on nights out during the heyday of delivering dogs throughout the EU before covid.

As I found that hilarious it is even more surprising that I, until now, missed this. No longer, a supreme pisstake on politicians and politics and, in the middle of writing an email in French (which requires concentration for grammar etc.) I was forced to leave the keys and listen. I urge anyone here to do the same. :joy:

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I second that.

At the date of writing (15/03/2025) this is the second week of the second series.

The beginning of the first series wasn’t so good, but it matured over time & they’ve hit the ground running with the current series.

I really enjoy ‘The News in Haikus’.

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Is that another programme? I haven’t heard of it, but I do like Hiakus and used to write them, and even published some, firstly in the Guardian, and then in a book. :grinning:

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No, it’s one of the segments in The Naked Week.

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If it was this episode then perhaps it was earlier on in the broadcast when the radio was babbling beside me and I was concentrating on SF but was gradually distracted by all the laughter and started to pay attention. :grinning:

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It’s a feature in every episode.

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Something else to look forward to then. :joy: