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vyvyanxI can't believe I'm sitting here listening to a gardening item on Woman's Hour.
Still, Radio 4 has been, on and off, part of my life for a very long time. When I was small, my mother had Radio Oxford on all day long. Mark Casparovitch. Yes. Then, when I was about 11 or 12, I persuaded her to switch to Radio 1 and we listened to that for a few years. At some point early in my teens, my parents gave me a little radio cassette player which they'd got with petrol tokens, and I began spending virtually my entire spare time listening to it locked in my bedroom. It was then that I started listening to Radio 4. I had a particular fondness for Any Questions, and the Saturday night plays.
When I went to university, I took my radio with me, of course, but rarely found time to listen to it; either I was working (and I can't multitask at all; listening to music while trying to write an essay would be very hard for me) or spending my leisure time in more dramatic ways than listening to Radio 4. From my MPhil year, though, I began going out with IWJ, who was also a fan of Radio 4, and usually ended up listening to that in the mornings, particularly Saturday mornings (Any Answers - argh!). When going out with D, a few years later, we seemed to spend hours on end listening to Radio 4, or more often, the World Service, which Radio 4 turns into if you stay up long enough. So we had the delights of Westway, Everywoman (with its inexpressibly annoying theme tune) and that strange pop music program (which played the Discovery Channel song long before anyone else seemed to have heard of it).
Now, I put on the radio as soon as I get up, to help me and G wake up in time to get him off to work at 8.15. So we get Thought for the Day, and interviews with recalcitrant politicos. I usually leave it on after G goes, so it turns into Woman's Hour and dodgy serials. If it turns into You and Yours, Money Box or a discussion of the significance of harvest festivals, I draw the line and turn it off. The radio is still the one I got in the mid-80s. The fast forward button on the cassette player doesn't work any more, but otherwise it's survived the years well.
I should really go out and do something worthwhile now :-)
Still, Radio 4 has been, on and off, part of my life for a very long time. When I was small, my mother had Radio Oxford on all day long. Mark Casparovitch. Yes. Then, when I was about 11 or 12, I persuaded her to switch to Radio 1 and we listened to that for a few years. At some point early in my teens, my parents gave me a little radio cassette player which they'd got with petrol tokens, and I began spending virtually my entire spare time listening to it locked in my bedroom. It was then that I started listening to Radio 4. I had a particular fondness for Any Questions, and the Saturday night plays.
When I went to university, I took my radio with me, of course, but rarely found time to listen to it; either I was working (and I can't multitask at all; listening to music while trying to write an essay would be very hard for me) or spending my leisure time in more dramatic ways than listening to Radio 4. From my MPhil year, though, I began going out with IWJ, who was also a fan of Radio 4, and usually ended up listening to that in the mornings, particularly Saturday mornings (Any Answers - argh!). When going out with D, a few years later, we seemed to spend hours on end listening to Radio 4, or more often, the World Service, which Radio 4 turns into if you stay up long enough. So we had the delights of Westway, Everywoman (with its inexpressibly annoying theme tune) and that strange pop music program (which played the Discovery Channel song long before anyone else seemed to have heard of it).
Now, I put on the radio as soon as I get up, to help me and G wake up in time to get him off to work at 8.15. So we get Thought for the Day, and interviews with recalcitrant politicos. I usually leave it on after G goes, so it turns into Woman's Hour and dodgy serials. If it turns into You and Yours, Money Box or a discussion of the significance of harvest festivals, I draw the line and turn it off. The radio is still the one I got in the mid-80s. The fast forward button on the cassette player doesn't work any more, but otherwise it's survived the years well.
I should really go out and do something worthwhile now :-)
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Date: 2002-10-03 03:14 am (UTC)