Would you describe that part of New Zealand as sub tropical? Never been there, but just interested. Would you describe the winters as South Med, or Canary Island balmy. I'm partial to weather and geography info!!
Ooops, no ChannonFodder. I should've explained. Click the link I put, then pull the bar till the time is saying 1 hour 25 or so. Nigel comes on shortly after some babbling from the presenter, who then talks about Southampton. Stick it on at 1hr 25 and bear with and he comes on in the next minute.
it'll come to you.... it comes to all with age, but first you'll suddenly be interested in gardening.
Yes, I would. Don't get me wrong, NZ is by no means a warm country overall, though the NZ tourist board would have you think otherwise. Being a long, thin, relatively isolated place, running North to South, it is subject to quite a few differences in temperature and weather. Down in the south of the South Island, it is bloody cold a lot of the time. With the wind coming straight off the Antarctic continent, it's not a place for soft southerners of the northern hemisphere. Funnily enough, it's a Scots stamping ground [Dunedin, Invercargill]. Midway up the South Island [Otago, Christchurch] the temps resemble those here on the south coast, but it isn't as mild as in Southampton. It can be quite extreme, hot or cold like Kent, for instance. The north of the South Island [Nelson] is like Northern France, and once you get into the North Island [Wanganui, Rotorua, etc...] then it starts to get quite balmy most of the time. At the top [Whangerai, Coromandel, Waiheke Island] it never really gets that cold, even in winter, so yes it is sub-tropical. The worse it gets is thick woolly jumper weather in those places. Mind you, when it rains... Oh, and you'll never forget your first major tremor..! My first one was in Christchurch about 2am in the morning, about 18 hours after I'd flown in. I was in bed with my girlfriend and the Earth did move.
I'm still only 29 & have listened to R4 in one way or another since I was born - my parents like the Archers so it was always on during dinner Slightly more seriously, I've been listening to R4 ever since I found out about the 6:30 comedy slot. After I could no longer stand Power FM in the morning switching to my eveninig radio station was the obvious choice, so I've been listeng to John Humphries since age 18\19 or so but the 6:30 slot for much longer. Those three are exactly the type of programmes that got me hooked on Radio 4 (particularly Just a minute) - I've listened to them since childhood* and listened because they made me laugh; every other kid I know whose parents listened to them laughs as well. They are perfect for a younger auidence - kids don't get the adult jokes but there's plenty to keep them going; specially from Paul Merton's flights of fancy or some new pop song being played on the swanny wistle and kazoo or sung to the wrong tune... There's loads of stuff in there for the "younger generation" to enjoy; just young enough. You just need to catch kids before their teens when they get interested in "edgy" humour but don't get all the adult stuff on ISIHAC or Just a minute. God knows how often they make me go "you can't say that on radio" now, but I would have had the joke fly over my head even in my early-mid teens. *well, not The unbelievable truth as it's recent, but the other two have been going since before I was born.
The far north of NZ is almost sub-tropical in the summer. It's an odd climate. Auckland is fantastic in the sun and I would definately recommend it.
I actually saw a recording of ISIHAC at Bristol a few years ago . The electronic Score Board is AMAZING
I have to confess that my signature on here is freely adapted from a line delivered by Humphry Littleton. I love ISIHAC- it's the smuttiest thing on radio.
I love ISIHAC too. Radio 4 comedy tends to be more relaxed about having post-watershed material on at 6.30, probably because so few kids or Daily Mail readers with an axe to grind actually listen to it and a jolly good thing too. I also really like Jeremy Hardy on the news quiz, although his singing is very dodgy.
For me it's Radio 4 early in the morning, 5 Live in the evening and Solent for the Saints matches when not at St Mary's! Musically it is Pete Waterman on Smooth Radio and Robbie Vincent (probably one of the few guys who will play the likes of Stanley Clarke) and Steve Quirk on Jazz FM.
ISIHAC, The News Quiz et al are absolutely superb. It tend to save all of them up and then have a weekly blast with iPlayer. Occasionally, I'll have a dose of The Archers just to keep in touch. I also do a lot of Classic Serials and Dramas too. Endless supplies of The Goon Show on Radio 4Extra don't go unappreciated either.
This has turned into a great thread!! I had forgotten about the World Service - absolute must when living overseas (I was in East Afroca for a few years) - the only link to the outside world that kept you in touch with reality.
Me all the time. But I really miss the Home Service and Light Program. If they were interviewing Fat Sam what station do you think he'd be on? Apart from the food channel of course.
Loved the quote about money: 'If you're doing it for money, you're doing it for the wrong reasons.' Think I'm in love... We are so very, very lucky to have him!
It's not on all year round, but they have a few series a year - as someone else mentioned, it's now chaired by Jack Dee since Humph died & he's very good at it IMO That and the fact that the "explicit" stuff is all double entendres & innuendo* so it's easy to retort that "you've got a disgusting mind". * While Samantha... http://www.g0akh.f2s.com/isihac/While_Samantha_Page.php
