Expats - Listen Up!
#31
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Thanks for the heads-up, Englishmum. I already use the LBC app to listen to my favorite shows there (got my American wife addicted to it, too!), and usually play Radio 4 or 5 from my PC through the iPlayer, but this looks really cool. Not sure I'd stretch to going back to listening to BBC Cov & Warks again, though, I had enough of that when I lived there!
Oddly enough I'm listening to the Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 right now. He's talking about Coventry as today is the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the new Cathedral (the city was devastated in the Blitz in November 1940).
He's talking with the broadcaster Jon (Jonathan) Gaunt......he was in my class at infant and junior school, it's weird to hear his voice although I've seen him on Sky TV too from time to time.
#33
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Been using it on a daily basis since getting an iPhone. It's quite nice on a Friday morning, when I can listen to Kermode & Mayo's Film Review while doing the school run.
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I have the app on the iPhone and I agree, it's brilliant. I can get radio stations from all over the world, including my favourite UK & Ireland stations (Xfm, Absolute, Phantom, Radio 1).
#35
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Me too. I'm going to a lunch today and everyone has to bring something, so last night I decided to make a Pavlova. For those who don't know, a Pav has a meringue base which you make by using egg whites and sugar. You have to ensure that the egg yolk doesn't go into the egg whites or the recipe won't work.
I was giggling hysterically when the presenter last night on LBC was talking about the young woman in Wales (weighing 63 stones ) who is undergoing organ failure and it took more than 30 people to get her out of the house to take her to hospital, including having to demolish two walls of the house. The LBC presenter was being *so* bitchy - in a camp way - about her being a 'lard-arse' etc. and being so un-PC it was refreshing to hear, I loved it.
I was laughing so much I couldn't break the eggs without getting yolk into the whites. I went through 9 eggs and only needed 4 of them! Omelettes for dinner tonight, methinks!
I was giggling hysterically when the presenter last night on LBC was talking about the young woman in Wales (weighing 63 stones ) who is undergoing organ failure and it took more than 30 people to get her out of the house to take her to hospital, including having to demolish two walls of the house. The LBC presenter was being *so* bitchy - in a camp way - about her being a 'lard-arse' etc. and being so un-PC it was refreshing to hear, I loved it.
I was laughing so much I couldn't break the eggs without getting yolk into the whites. I went through 9 eggs and only needed 4 of them! Omelettes for dinner tonight, methinks!
#36
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BTW: Kermode & Simon Mayo's film reviews are on Radio 5 Live
#37
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I had a lot of trouble finding a 60s station, which played any British 60s stuff. After listening to the US 60s stations, I have to say the USA was saved from a lifetime of bland pop, by the "British Invasion". Terrible stuff.
#38
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Yup it's awesome, I was missing Radio 2....on BB Curve 9320 and works really well.
#39
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Me too. I'm going to a lunch today and everyone has to bring something, so last night I decided to make a Pavlova. For those who don't know, a Pav has a meringue base which you make by using egg whites and sugar. You have to ensure that the egg yolk doesn't go into the egg whites or the recipe won't work.
I was giggling hysterically when the presenter last night on LBC was talking about the young woman in Wales (weighing 63 stones ) who is undergoing organ failure and it took more than 30 people to get her out of the house to take her to hospital, including having to demolish two walls of the house. The LBC presenter was being *so* bitchy - in a camp way - about her being a 'lard-arse' etc. and being so un-PC it was refreshing to hear, I loved it.
I was laughing so much I couldn't break the eggs without getting yolk into the whites. I went through 9 eggs and only needed 4 of them! Omelettes for dinner tonight, methinks!
I was giggling hysterically when the presenter last night on LBC was talking about the young woman in Wales (weighing 63 stones ) who is undergoing organ failure and it took more than 30 people to get her out of the house to take her to hospital, including having to demolish two walls of the house. The LBC presenter was being *so* bitchy - in a camp way - about her being a 'lard-arse' etc. and being so un-PC it was refreshing to hear, I loved it.
I was laughing so much I couldn't break the eggs without getting yolk into the whites. I went through 9 eggs and only needed 4 of them! Omelettes for dinner tonight, methinks!
Guess we are all getting hooked. Englishmum, single handedly, you have brought down the USA, production line, we are all listening to British radio.
Reg. Frank R.
#40
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Not fun, is it?
Good thing the Americans invented the blues so the Beatles and the Stones could reshape them into their sound
#43
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Not a hint of irony, by the way - Tap are a bloody good band
#44
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Yep, then America responded in kind by giving us people like The Doors, Hendrix, SRV et al. It's a mutual agreement. Likewise, after Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, the Americans rather kindly responded with Spinal Tap
Not a hint of irony, by the way - Tap are a bloody good band
Not a hint of irony, by the way - Tap are a bloody good band
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