I have genuinely enjoyed listening to Radio 4 ever since I was a kid.
At university, the hipsters thought this awfully cool of me, while others thought I was trying to be "ironic".

But there is nothing like hearing the shipping forecast on a wild wet and windy night, and there's nothing quite like waking up to the pips, and the sound of John Humphries giving a polititian a battering.

During the MPs expenses scandal, the Today Programme was the only radio show to waken to.

Sorry - this post appears to be about Radio 4, not Getting Old. Fuck you, youngsters - I don't care.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 17:31, 10 replies)

Thought for the day
has always been sanctimonious shite though.
( Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 18:42, closed)

Maybe if you loved Jesus
you wouldn't be so angry online.
( Ungersven would support SpankyHanky's patreon, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 18:53, closed)

No, it isn't.

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 10:11, closed)

Were your family undertakers?
It's like you were weaned on formalin.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 19:01, closed)

So it's not just me then?
I now find I HAVE to drive to work to the sound of Radio 4 as I can't find any decent music to listen to on the other channels...
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Thu 7 Jun 2012, 19:08, closed)

I love Radio 4 and have listened to it since I was about 25.
I had it on when a chap came to deliver and plumb in a washing machine. "what you listening to that for, it's for old people", was him comment.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 7 Jun 2012, 21:59, closed)

Oh, and 'wanking to the pips' reminds me.
Charlotte Green got a letter a few years ago.

'Dear Miss Green,
Could you please take slightly longer reading the Shipping Forecast so I can finish the same time you do.'
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 7 Jun 2012, 22:01, closed)

I remember when I used to post on b3ta about my love for Radio 4.
Now tha someone else has stolen my routine, I might as well just pension myself off.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 10:13, closed)

Radio 4 rocks...
... metaphorically speaking.
(minimalist ..., Fri 8 Jun 2012, 11:26, closed)

Been
listening to R4 since H2G2 was re-broadcast in 1981? I was 13 at the time.

I always have it on in the car.
( social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 11:49, closed)