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Old May 24th 2012, 12:47 pm
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Originally Posted by Ridski
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!

Ha ha....I've only had BBC Cov & Warks on for a few minutes, just wanted to show that one can get local stations too.

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.
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I'm hooked on LBC.



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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).
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Originally Posted by frrussre
I'm hooked on LBC.



Reg. Frank R.
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!
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BTW: Kermode & Simon Mayo's film reviews are on Radio 5 Live
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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.
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Yup it's awesome, I was missing Radio 2....on BB Curve 9320 and works really well.
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Originally Posted by Englishmum
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!
Great story, funny. I have caught myself laughing out loud, lucky no one is watching.

Guess we are all getting hooked. Englishmum, single handedly, you have brought down the USA, production line, we are all listening to British radio.

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Originally Posted by Uncle Ebenezer
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.
The world was saved from a lifetime of bland pop by the British Invasion. Imagine a world without The Who ...

Not fun, is it?

Good thing the Americans invented the blues so the Beatles and the Stones could reshape them into their sound
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Originally Posted by Englishmum
BTW: Kermode & Simon Mayo's film reviews are on Radio 5 Live
Forgot to mention that in my post. Also, forgot to say "Hello To Jason Issacs".
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Good thing the Americans invented the blues so the Beatles and the Stones could reshape them into their sound
A good way of looking at it. America may have mined the diamond, but it was Britain that polished it.
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A good way of looking at it. America may have mined the diamond, but it was Britain that polished it.
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
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
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
Can't argue with that, even if i've never been a big fan of The Doors.
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Can't argue with that, even if i've never been a big fan of The Doors.
Pink Floyd did the psychedelia better, but Jim Morrison certainly helped carry on the good work Bob Dylan and friends started with respect to the American songwriters.
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