leftovers: The beginning

Well, of the last 20 years...

I do believe the culture, after books, that stays within us as true guide, as to how to live; and in Britain the far harder quandary: who on earth are 'we'?

Is the radio play.

As a few communicants of late have related, the BBC radio 4 or 3 plays have gone off the cliff into trite moaning sewerage - as I have listened to 95% of them the last 20 years - my relaxation but also learning, I know his is true. It is as if the formula the 'gatekeepers' now only allow is plays about people with something 'WRONG' with them... and best of all their self pitying pea brains demand: BY people with something 'WRONG' with them...

And whist of course 'diversity' and the need for society to also hear the voices of the damaged, is essential, this formula does not WORK. We are sick of it. If i turn on and there is a play starring the damagedc..i turn off within ten minutes.

The last time i could listen to a play about someone - two people, wih something WRONG with hem... was Peter Souter's superb What Love Sounds like..

you can listen to here

https://petersouter.com/work/radio/

curiously, not behind a paywall.... ?? despite him being a BBC writer

And because of his great writing.... he told me about people - the mess of love.... incidenally between a blind ....person and ...(i shall not spoil it...in my opinion a cliff edger of the best sort)

Meanwhile.... i have no idea what society is now so i email from my main me to this one...

Maybe just for me... but i hope also my daughter for whom these pages were intended - GREAT culture... is timeless...

To start the radio list.

Here is he thing though, i have scoured a few years ago 'podcasts' and collections of radio plays elsewhere. There are a few channels on youtube where some great ones of the mid 20th c are curated - but they only have a few.... USA cannot do the radio play at all....

So it really IS the BBC - And they (?) Put the Great Mike Walker behind a paywall... a £27 quid a listen my ohh my....

Perhaps Audible one can signup and download a load... (or record them - use audacity free software its superb... i use it many years to record but it needs a few tweaks to setings to work recording straight of a sreaming site)

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