I can exclusively reveal on this blog that BBC Radio 4 has invented a time machine.
Yes, that’s right – if you are listening at the right time, you magically get transported back an hour…
Listen to the Midnight News at, surprise surprise, midnight. Then the Book of the Week. Then Sailing By and try not to go to sleep during the Shipping Forecast. Then the National Anthem. “And now we join our colleagues at the World Service”…
…with the Midnight News again!
How strange. Yes, I know – the World Service works on GMT while Radio 4 works on BST… but all the same, I was a little shocked when I was just dozing off last night to find that I had a chance to relive the last hour!
Thank you Radio 4.
Oh – I’ve not tried waking up at 5.30 (or 4.30) to see if I lose an hour when Radio 4 starts back up again. I must do, I guess.
Hey! The Shipping Forecast is a classic piece of British history…and we’d all be sorry if it went..which is why Radio 4 have carried on with it.
Can you tell i’m reading “Attention All Shipping”!!!
David
I agree. But you have to admit that it has a pretty impressive soporific effect – it is very rare for me to be awake at the beginning of it and at the end of it.
There is an interesting story behind Sailing By … I might recount it some day.