I love Radio 4

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I have a dark secret and feel the need to make a public confession, I LOVE RADIO 4 x x x . It's soooo nerdy, but it's just soooo great!!

[clare]

I love Andrew Marr

[Nero]

My friend, a stalwart R4 fan from childhood, has switched off, saying it's too depressing and factual. I like it, though, and believe it's worth the licence fee alone. (Chav, if you like R4, try World Service on 648 AM, digital radio or via the telly.) Nero

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I love Radio 4 for the cricket and "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue".

[PeckhamRose]

I LOVE Ed Reardon's Week on a Friday. As a writer, with my mates who are writers, it is a MUST. But yes, I am a Radio 4 person too, thought mostly usually mornings. Only thing that gets me mad is that only religious people are allowed to have a thought for the day. If you are not superstitious or religious they think you are not worthy of a thought for the day. British Humanists Association lobbies tham about that issue. But yeah, I used to listen to BBC London Radio till itgot to being a talk radio show with whining people, and can't STAND Robert Elms, so now I play Radio 4 in morning and my own music afternoons.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I'm so sad I listen to it in the evenings too!

[Michael Palaeologus]

My radios are only tuned to Radio4. Today wakes me up. Just a Minute and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

Ed Reardon is a true star.

[Asset]

Likewise, dial tuned to R4 at all times in the Asset house. We like the comforting burble in the background while cooking. Cannot stand commercial radio adverts. Listen to pirates or R4 in the car.

[dulwichmum]

Honestly, Chavlet and Michael and your strange fetish type behiours... shame on you!

[macker]

I confess to being an R4 ?ber-nerd also. I guess it was when daughter could hum The Archers theme at age two that I realised. Do you think there are twelve step programmes for us?

[Ultraconsultancy]

Eh? - since when did R4 become some kind of guilty pleasure? I love it, but feel it has been dumbing down a bit over the past couple of years, economists explaining terms such as 'like-for-like growth' kind of thing. All this and Melvyn Bragg, too!

[blinder999]

Today program in the mornings - though Thought For The Day makes me cringe and want to turn it off to save my kids from the pious spaghetti monsters

[Mark]

Listen Against, Wednesdays at 6:30pm. Last week one of the discussions was "Is Gardeners' Question Time racist towards non-gardeners?" Great stuff.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Thought for the Day normally provides a view that is somewhat different from my own - but such is the nature of the BBC.

This morning, Lionel Blue's musings on what the lonely could do at Christmas were amusing, although his joke was awful, as usual.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I liked the idea of going to some kind of religious sanctuary at Christmas. I love thought for the day, it makes me feel all warm and lovely!

[dulwichmum]

Darling ChavWivaLawDegree,

You could spend the day with my mother at her house if you like, it sounds exactly what you are looking for... The thought of that does anything but make me feel warm and lovely!

[Keef]

Deleted because I posted the same thing twice somehow.

[Keef]

Radio 4 is pretty much all we listen to in our house. I love The Genius game! And there was a comedy play recently about a woman trying to prove to the devil she'd been murdered rather than commiting suicide. Used to listen to things like XFM, but these days the radio only leaves Radio 4 if I want to hear football on 5 Live.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Old Nicks Game with Andy Hamilton as the Devil is very funny.

I started to listen to Radio 4 when I was at college and the Falklands War started - it was the best way of getting the news. I sort of fell in love with the late Brian Redhead on Today and then never looked back.

Other than 5Live, Does anybody know if there is a digital 24 hour Radio news and current affairs programme?

[Asset]

I like thought for the day too. It is there to provoke thought and sometimes it does just that. At least it allows all faiths (nearly) a go and it is never particularly religious in my view. I heard a Buddhist doing it once.

[blinder999]

"never particularly religious"? Here are some quotes from recent Thoughts For The Day:

23 Nov

Paul of Tarsus describes God's strength being most evident in his own weakness. Jacob saw God in the night, and the fight, which crippled him. Christ Himself saved us when His body and soul were broken. The whole world is out of joint: God doesn't discard it, but works with it to redeem it.

In truth there is no tension, or should not be, between treatment and tolerance, acceptance and cure. Whether those with Asperger syndrome are any more disabled than the rest of us is arguable: I passionately believe not, and that we should embrace such alternative in-sights as a great privilege.

But we are all less than the best we could be - physically and emotionally, morally and spiritually. The truth is that, like any parent, God both accepts us and challenges us.

22 Nov

In another age, a busy, anxious professional asked Jesus what he needed to do to inherit eternal life. By way of answer Jesus referred to a well-known 'life list', one made up of things we shouldn't as well as should do. The man proudly replied 'check' to each one of the commandments and yet suspected there was more. So he asked what he still lacked. Jesus' answer wasn't "go memorise the Torah" or "white water raft the Jordan" - but "go sell your possessions, and follow me". It was a goal way too challenging for the man and we are told he went away sad and, presumably, unfulfilled. The man was expecting a 'things to do before you die' list; w hat he got was a 'die first then discover your life' list.

A preacher I knew used to ask people "Hey, how's life going?" After they'd given their usually glib answer he'd say, with a smile, "do yourself a favour and die", before adding quietly - "to yourself, that is!" It was a serious jest, another way of saying if you really want to live a fulfilling, abundant life then you must lose it first in order to find it.

21 Nov

In the Bible's poetic picture of beginnings, God creates not a race or a tribe, still less a mass of humanity, but two individuals. They get their identities because they bear something of his likeness; in their capacity to make choices they reflect him, share his dignity. They make a mess of it, of course, make their unilater al declarations of independence, but that divine image, however obscured, is never obliterated, and it insists on bursting through in some of the unlikeliest of their children.

Well that's the old story: and I believe that our uniqueness rests in the fact that we're each made for relationship with God.

20 Nov

there's been one further element to Christian marriage upon which the Queen and Prince Philip have been able to draw over the years, it's the love of God, ever forgiving and ever renewing - and it's that love which is at the heart of a good marriage and a good life. May they and we continue to know that love.

[Asset]

Oh goodness - you've gone to a lot of trouble to prove me wrong. Obviously I'm not listening carefully enough!

[wee quinnie]

all hail the fab Radio 4

[Nero]

Michael,

BBC World Service is about 65% news and current affairs. The other programmes are drama, sport, science, nature and culture. Digital radio, telly, 648 AM. Nero

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Great heartwarming stuff!