Re: God I love Radio 4

On Wed, 10 May 2006 05:35:19 +0300, vulgarandmischevious said ...
Bear wrote:

On Wed, 10 May 2006 00:42:08 +0300, vulgarandmischevious said ...
Bear wrote:

That's Radio 4 like it's supposed to work; "nation shall speak unto
nation". Nice.

It's what I miss, along with beer, bacon, West Ham and motorbikes.

Listen Again is your friend, surely? In fact they do a live net
broadcast, do they not?

It's more that it's blocked at work, and my home connection is total
***.

Weird thing to block, even at your work; bribe a friendly techie maybe?

Is R4 broadcast as part of the BBC's shortwave output? That would be a
better bet, since you could then buy a SW set and get it at home or
work. Thinking about it though, I think it just donates content to the
World Service, rather than having an R4 shortwave service, BICBW.

Or is it just for us Brits at home? In which case, there has to be a way
around it.

I think some content is for UK users only, but I don't know how it
knows where someone is.

Well for as long as I'm where I am (about 2 months, but my next place
has broadband, or will by the time I get there), or have use of a
connection, I'm happy to act as some sort of proxy if someone can show
me how; I recall a certain ukrm'er using his server at home as a point
of contact for files that I wouldn't have been able to access from the
place I worked in at the time, and it can't be a huge stretch from files
to bandwidth, can it?

If someone can show me how to do whatever it is we need to do, I'm HTH.
The times you'd most want to listen would be during what would be the
night/evening here, so it's no skin off my nose. I'd also talk to our
mutual friend on this one, as he's generally very good at this sort of
thing, and has a server to boot.

That said, one thing I will *not* miss about this place is the
connection. Frankly, it's a load of old wank, and rarely lives up to its
mediocre 1 meg billing. But if I can help, I will; I honestly never
thought there'd be anything about the UK I'd genuinely miss, but I can
see where R4 might well fall into that category for me these days.

BTW I still have that Joe Calzaghe fight on AVI, so if you've got a
mailing address that works by now, drop me an email and I'll burn & send
it for you.
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Bear
BMW 740iL - Stately Progress For The Mature Gentleman
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