I Like Listening to the Radio
I have no television anyway (a fact the TV Licencing Agency finds hard to believe!), but there is such a range of radio programmes to enjoy I don't need a television. Besides, I can be doing other things with the radio on, although I do admit these can take over my concentration.
As I like a great variety of both music and speech programmes, my radios tend to spend most of their time alternating fairly evenly between BBC Radios Three and Four, occasionally going over to Radio Two in the evenings.
I can't remember when I last tried Radio One. I think I gave up on that years back when a new Controller decided to narrow its range to nowt but dance-club and Top Ten material; and judging by Radio Times, it's still just as narrow-minded.
As for day-time BBC R2, and the commercial stations, I ignore if not abjure them. It's not so much the music I dislike, having been brought up since the 1960s on pop and rock; but I can't be doing with the intervening, semi-literate waffle and shallow listeners' offerings - and in the commercial case, shallow ads for double-glazing and second-hand ring-tone firms - because I don't like being patronised!
As I like a great variety of both music and speech programmes, my radios tend to spend most of their time alternating fairly evenly between BBC Radios Three and Four, occasionally going over to Radio Two in the evenings.
I can't remember when I last tried Radio One. I think I gave up on that years back when a new Controller decided to narrow its range to nowt but dance-club and Top Ten material; and judging by Radio Times, it's still just as narrow-minded.
As for day-time BBC R2, and the commercial stations, I ignore if not abjure them. It's not so much the music I dislike, having been brought up since the 1960s on pop and rock; but I can't be doing with the intervening, semi-literate waffle and shallow listeners' offerings - and in the commercial case, shallow ads for double-glazing and second-hand ring-tone firms - because I don't like being patronised!
70-79, M