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Eddie, when do you sleep?
Sean Connery impression: "Never on the company's time..."
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There are now photos over on the iPM blog....look if you dare...
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Well I should apologise for not believing you Eddie.
Sarah looked a bit chilly with her scarfe on.
Technically it all sounded superb and nice to have the sfx microphone in the garden - and the odd bit of music falling off the piano.
If Sarah lives 2 miles from the flightpath it makes me wonder what noise levels must be like if someone is living directly below the flightpath!
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jonnie @ 3, there is a cemetary off the South Circular that is close to the flight-path for Heathrow (I assume).
Picture to yourself the sad scene about the grave into which my ma-in-law had been lowered, as the dignified preacher talked about 'rest eternal' and the aeroplanes overhead drowned him out every two minutes...
I'm afraid we all disgraced ourselves badly, and the horrified giggles of her daughter had to be hidden behind a convenient shrub! (Ma-in-law would have been the first to start laughing, though.)
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chris @ 4, Well at least the family saw the irony in the situation - and helped cheer everyone up.
I just hope the preacher didn't overhear ay of the stifled laughter - and if he did, I hope he understood the reason why.
It's really great that Eddie and the team did this location broadcast. I wasn't up to listen live but thousands would have been - and having the microphone in the garden really illustrated the problem.
I only wish that the Network (Radio 4) would make better use of the overnight hours. Broadcasting the 'World Service' (available on DAB and Freeview) is really a cop out especially when overnight radio can be such a lifeline. Personally I'd like to see a phone-in fronted by someone with the wit and intelligence of Eric.
It would require a person to field the lines, a researcher, Editor and presenter.
This could easily be funded from the money the BBC has saved in suspending JR - at least for a couple of years - probably much longer!
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I've just got cross again because I can't get Listen Again.
So I'm copying summat I just posted on today's Beach (about not hearing Feedback and, thus Annasee):
# 58. At 8:12pm on 22 Nov 2008, Frances_O wrote:
Phooey. It isn't, as far as I can see. Must listen to the repeat on Sunday.
I've given up trying to get the boffins or anybody in authority to reply to my queries as to how to access Listen Again.
Hmmmm, could this be an iPM item?? I expect so many others have asked the same question that the Beeb has just decided to ignore us.
Result: I listen less to my beloved R4.
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Oh, and at the risk of temporarily taking over this thread - better not last, froggers, or I'll start feeling all alone (sob):
jonnie (5), I suspect that finances wouldn't allow it. And if R4 has to go over to anything else in the hours when we're supposed to be snuggled up to our beloveds/teddy bears/hottie bottles/a.n.other comfort object, I'm OK with the World Service. Specially if I can't sleep in the hideous hours of Monday morning (or Sunday night), Charlie Gillett; almost worth staying awake for. IMO. of course.
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Frances (7),
I had listen again iPlayer crash on me yesterday, partway through Feedback (wondering about annasee's latest R4 appearance; is she trying to challenge Marcus Brigstock's attempts?) throwing up errors this morning (claiming it was not installed on my computer), but apparently working again this evening, without changing a thing.
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No, it's today's Glass Box I'm after.
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pmLeader - there's never been a Glass Box on a Saturday.
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Frances, I assume you did reboot the PC?
If you've installed the iplayer application you could try and go into add/remove programs and uninstall it - then re-install it again.
Also try and uninstall Flash - and then reinstall it
Then reboot.
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jonnie 11, I think you might be missing a 'then' and possibly a comma, but I'm not a pedant.
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I've just Listened Again to iPM and noticed a few anomalies:
The music launched itself off the piano and nobody even suggested Poltergeist activity (or a cat).
We never established whether the noise in the garden was traffic or aircraft.
The high note was two notes.
And finally ... wasn't it marvellous!
I loved the informality and the idea that you're pushing the boundaries of interactivity all the time. (And I speak as one who used to believe news programmes should TELL us stuff, not ASK us!)
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Fifi (13),
Didn't you read my suggestion of a hair-trigger for the music to fall off the piano; it was an inspired idea!
The broadcast garden noise is what us Londoners sleep through every night.
I wasn't going to spoil the party by pointing out the "high note" at the end of broadcast iPM was in fact two.
I was going to record the next morning's 04:30 incoming plane for reference, but the podcast had a plane coming in just after 06:00, and a good example of what it is like for those two miles away; lucky them.
Also, heard the repeat of Feedback with annasee this evening (missed first time around).
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Deep 14: So I'm a party pooper then am I?
* sulks *
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* fails to stifle grin *
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No, still.
But now I'm in search of government policy.
Do I have it right?
1. VAT cut but restored and then some (to recoup) later on?
2.And 45p tax rate for one hundred and fifty thousand a year peeps, after the next General Election?
So,
1. we keep the money we save by us, so as not to be too short later on. And with deflation, we make a bit.
2. Those people pay themselves their huge bonuses now, organising a new set of finicky fiddles (or investment vehicles as we know and love them, in fact the next bankers' and financiers' scam), to justify this latest theft. And avoid a few million 5p's in the pound of tax.
As for reducing income tax on the low paid, I tell you, we won't work any harder. We'll just feel a little less aggrieved at being paid so little for so much.
If the 10p rate is restored for everyone, the top earners will do more of their tricks, for even greater returns. They just LOVE conning us. It makes them feel SO clever.
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Thinking of Eddie's comment that photos were on the iPM blog...
Anyone know who Joseph Mcgarraghy is? His photos appear suspiciously frequently on the iPM Flickr photostream...
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wide awake - and very bored with what the world service has on offer!
Does anyone really listen to this drivel!
Thank godness we have 'listen again' and sky?
and cold remedies.
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I make a plea on behalf of bereaved people.
In such a time of distress as when you lose a loved one, is it morally right that a funeral director will charge you over 300% mark-up on things like a coffin or over 500% mark-up for the little wooden casket in which to put the ashes of the remains after cremation?
Funeral directors perform a necessary and, in most cases, a caring and loving service to people in their time of need, but I believe it is time to expose the tradition of loading up the prices of these items and thereby start to campaign on behalf of ordinary people when making this "distress purchase".
Google "coffin prices" for an idea of what I mean and you will see examples of a traditional veneer coffin which is sold to the funeral director for about £50 including delivery.
I am asking for your support in bringing this to the public's attention.
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