I Like Listening to the Radio

I really like listening to the radio. More frequently and often, I prefer it over television. The app I like to use are TuneIn Radio and iHeart Radio. The anchors, disk jockeys, and broadcasters make me feel included in conversations and sharing of information. The radio is also my source of news and current events. While I am studying and doing some household chores, I like to have my iPad or Mobile Phone on and playing it. I like to listen to other genres of music such as Pop and Smooth Jazz.

Before and during slumber, I really like to leave it playing because it is pacifying and calming. It is very informative and educational. Is this normal? Is there anyone here that prefers listening to the radio? What are your thoughts and opinions? Who else thinks like I do.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

Perfectly normal!

I listen quite selectively, and often do not have the radio on at all despite not really having a viable alternative for playing music.

I chose to have no TV, either - rather to the puzzlement and concern of the TV Licensing Authority. (The licence is the subscription to the BBC, and compared to commercial subscription stations, is remarkably cheap.)

I don't like the pop music being made now - all dance stuff and rap - but I find the stations that do play the older material I do like are often very irritating thanks to the semi-illiterate blether and twaddle between the records. That even on daytime BBC Radio Two, which at least is mercifully free of puerile ads for double-glazing, cars and second-hand ring-tones. Even so I find the pop-music channel style not relaxing, but stress-raising.

My radio then spends its "ON" time on BBC Three (which plays a remarkably wide range of music), Four (talk programmes on current-affairs and a huge range of topics and interests unconnected with them) or very occasionally, music-magazine type evening shows.

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