Tonight, Radio 4, 23.00 GMT. Small Gods. That would be all. Except...

Linda Smith, comedian, performer, campaigner and President of the British Humanist Association, died today. Tributes going to be on Radio 4 a lot this week. This one from Jeremy Hardy is especially good. She'd kept the illness quiet; I was laughing at her jokes so recently ( Read more... )

Why this incredible eulogy for a "sporting genius" who hasn't done anything for 30 years?
That's the question just asked on Any Questions. To which my response is I don't know, I don't care, he was a drunken old sop who wasted his life and the only thing he'd done since I was born was work through a succession of gorgeous women he didn't deserve ( Read more... )

The problem with being a news junkie is that sometimes the news is the same story repeated. Ad nauseum.

Charles and the horse have gone to Balmoral. I care because? This displaces every other news story in the country and the world because? It even took over the whole of Radio 4 FM this afternoon, they 'split' the service, the regular schedule ( Read more... )

If you're not listening, use the listen again thing later.

Subject: Life on the ocean wave.

Julian Clary:
Years ago, a life on the ocean wave was all the rage, if you hung around Portsmouth then you would have found the streets to be full of discharged seamen...

Clement Freud challenges; Deviation, surely?

Mostly for nadriel but also for anyone else with comedy taste...

Mitch Benn on Radio 4

Mike, time to be buying one of those plug into the wall radio things old bean. I'd recommend a clock/alarm myself. You may even want to one-up me and get a DAB radio. Or a portable of some sort.

But, anyway. Great radio.

Reminder to Mike, and anyone else online right now, tune to Radio 4. Baddiel's show is great.