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dbratman
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response 145 of 154:
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Dec 21 05:41 UTC 2003 |
Radio _6_? Clearly I haven't been keeping track. I think I lost count
after 4.
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krj
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response 146 of 154:
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Jan 2 19:12 UTC 2004 |
Yes, they have been proliferating. :) Radio 5 is live news and sports
coverage. Radio 6 (which the BBC markets as "6Music") I describe as
"serious rock music from 1960-2004." Radio 6 started in the spring
or summer of 2002 and it is only available on digital radio -- digital
radio is much bigger in the UK than it is here -- and on the net.
Bob Harris has a good show on Radio 6 -- was it Jeff who told me that
Harris is famous from the show The Old Grey Whistle Test?
Also Tom Robinson, who was a bit of a rock star back at the end of the
1970s.
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twenex
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response 147 of 154:
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Jan 2 22:31 UTC 2004 |
Re: Bob Harris, probably; possibly, "among others", though (ball leaps to
mind).
<twenex rubs his head>
Ouch.
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dbratman
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response 148 of 154:
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Jan 4 05:40 UTC 2004 |
I was afraid that Radio 6 would be 24 hours a day of cheerful band
music from The Village. "Good morning, good morning, good morning.
It's another beautiful day today!"
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twenex
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response 149 of 154:
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Jan 4 05:58 UTC 2004 |
And, is it?
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krj
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response 150 of 154:
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Mar 10 20:34 UTC 2004 |
It's been just over two years since I started this item.
The BBC has so woven itself into my life, it's hard to remember
what it was like when I had to constantly scratch and dig to
find interesting music. My consumption of American radio has
dwindled to: news on WWJ-AM and NPR outlets; occasional classical
music on WKAR-FM in East Lansing; even more occasional classic rock
on the Howell station I pass on my commute.
Late Junction on BBC Radio 3 had a number of excerpts from a
concert by Bill Frisell & Djemilady Tounkara, both on acoustic
guitar, with a number of supporting instrumentalists including a
fine percussionist. This band appears to be touring the UK intensively
right now but there are no recordings (yet); Frisell records a lot,
though, so I hope that maybe the UK tour was to shake down the lineup,
then the CD gets recorded, then they tour the USA and come to Ann Arbor.
This was Monday's Late Junction show, available for replay until next
week.
Celtic Connections this week, on the other hand, was a show I fled
from, a summary from the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards. One would
think that would appeal to me, but I just have not liked their awards
shows, at all. The final straw was
Senegalese rap group Daara J, who have become sort of an in-joke
between Mickey and I. We really can't abide them any more, and
the Beeb is plugging them heavily.
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twenex
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response 151 of 154:
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Mar 11 14:10 UTC 2004 |
Most unsatisfactory.
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dbratman
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response 152 of 154:
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Mar 13 17:07 UTC 2004 |
Next up, a world cuisine award featuring the Dakar MacDonald's.
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krj
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response 153 of 154:
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Mar 4 22:13 UTC 2005 |
Heh, another whole year of listening gone by, and I didn't even make
any comments on it. Surprisingly, I'm still listening to the same
core shows that I started with three years ago: Celtic Connections,
Travelling Folk (both on BBC Radio Scotland), Late Junction (BBC Radio 3)
and Mike Harding (the folk show on Radio 2). This year I started
picking up Radio Wales' Celtic Heartbeat on a semi-regular basis, it's
another fairly old-fashioned folk music show.
A few weeks ago, Radio Scotland seems to have upgraded their Internet
equipment. *Finally*, their sound is as good as the national BBC
channels such as Radio 3.
Celtic Connections is playing too much rap music for my tastes.
Bleah.
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krj
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response 154 of 154:
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Mar 5 19:45 UTC 2012 |
Yesterday: ten year anniversary of listening to the BBC, according
to the original item text.
And now BBC Radio Scotland's Global Gathering, the successor programme
to Celtic Connections, is up for cancellation around the end of this
month.
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