Comments | menthe_reglisse: Go For It Gone

menthe_reglisse

Go For It Gone - about bloody time

May 24, 2009 21:13

As I was doing the washing up tonight, listening to Radio 4 as is my wont, I was delighted to hear that I was listening to the last ever Go For It, Radio 4's unbearably smug children's programme. I know I'm not their target audience, and neither, it seems am I typical of their actual audience, being approximately 15 years too young, but really, it ( Read more... )

parenting, childcare, domesticity, radio 4

Comments 6

softfruit May 24 2009, 21:54:54 UTC

Go 4 It did lead to some of the most rewarding in-joke Dead Ringers sketches though.

menthe_reglisse May 25 2009, 09:33:38 UTC

Oh I missed those, damn. I can imagine that would have been very good. Most of my Radio 4 listening these days is on podcast to combat insomnia, so I avoid things that make me laugh because that wakes me up too much.

softfruit May 25 2009, 19:53:19 UTC

Along the lines of "Tonight on Go For It we've got what we at radio four know kids today are all excited by - the poetry of Dylan Thomas. Ace. And if you have a favourite self-destructive alcoholic Welsh poet you'd like us to cover next week, send us an email. Ace."

softfruit May 24 2009, 21:57:27 UTC

And FOOC? Oh yes.

menthe_reglisse May 25 2009, 18:26:09 UTC

One of my favourites, although sometimes too interesting/distressing for good sleep inducing. But Kate Adie's voice *swoons*

slightlyfoxed May 25 2009, 20:27:48 UTC

Ha! Go For It rubbed me the wrong way, also, and it was always on when I was cooking my Sunday evening meal. (I didn't think I was that regimented, either, but Monday's a work day, so Sunday's a rigorously early night.) DAB radio dragged from the bathroom and set to R7 usually saved me.

I listened to Cat's Whisker's when young, but I was already a Radio 4 fan. It might have been rubbish.