Do you like to listen to the Radio?

CatalkoyJohn


Joined: 26/01/2009
Posts: 34

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 12:51

I have always enjoyed Radio. Even today I still regularly "tune in" to Radio Caroline (my first love) on the internet. What do enjoy, both in Cyprus on traditional receivers, and from elsewhere via Internet Radio?



As wel as Caroline, and the BBC, I listen to Radio Swiss Jazz, Radio Jackie, deutsche welle english, and TalkSport most days. In TRNC I have only found bayrak international in (part) English.



Please share your favouites with us.



Thanks John

Earlybird


Joined: 28/04/2009
Posts: 816

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 12:55

Steve Wrights Sunday Love Songs, which I am listening to at the moment!

Carndi


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 613

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 13:21

I listen ( via the PC ) to BBC Radio Ulster each morning and Go into http://www.loudcity.com in the afternoon where you can pick which type of music you wish and it gives you a selection of American stations to choose from.

MartinM


Joined: 03/10/2009
Posts: 166

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 13:26

Bayrak Classical 88.4. Very Good

greengate8


Joined: 07/12/2008
Posts: 156

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 13:35

Always been a radio fan since the crystal set days (remember them) - sad i know...



The internet has made listening a lot easier, and there is free software you can download to listen to stations from around the world, i have found some amusing stations from australia, usa and many others. The usa has a lot of local specialised music stations to choose from, so if you like radio give it a try..



the links below are a starting point, but if you do some searches on the internet you find others for the rest of the world.



http://radiotime.com/region/c_101309/United_Kingdom.aspx?other=true

https://www.reciva.com/

http://www.radiomaps.co.uk/



enjoy your listening

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 14:32

greengate8,



I am as old as you are and I remember valve radio, but crystal sets?

CatalkoyJohn


Joined: 26/01/2009
Posts: 34

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 15:13

Thanks to Greengate8, these look helpful. Which is your favourite?

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 16:16

When I was young (not yesterday) we longed for Sunday to come along to listen to Pick of the pops I think Alan Freeman presented it. my dad hated it so bought me a transistor radio and banished me to my bedroom.!!



Crickey now I feel old!!!!



Chris

cyprusgiant


Joined: 08/07/2009
Posts: 467

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 17:58

My favourite was listening to Radio Luxemburg, hearing all the latest sounds amongst the hissing and crackling of the airwaves. The pirate ships was the undoing of Luxembourg, but my favourite advert was the pools expert Horis Bachelor from Keynsham. I wonder if anyone wrote in and used his secret formula.

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 18:03

I am definitely a Radio 2 fan these days. My favourites during my misspent youth were Pick of the Pops (Chris - also with transistor radio in bedroom - my Dad shouting "turn that rubbish down"), Radio Luxenbourg and Radio Caroline. Did anyone else see the film "The Boat that Rocked"?



Jean

hattikins


Joined: 17/02/2008
Posts: 2793

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 18:09

Cyprusgiant

Is that Keynsham,spelt K E Y N.S.H. A. M., Keynsham, Bristol, oh God, that gives my age away. I also loved Pick of the Pops and Radio Caroline, cliquie or what.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 18:17

Me too radio lux 208, radio caroline i loved the music. Now I love Steve Wright but always have done . Thats all I listen to here as i go to work later on sunday. Hats I can still spell KEYNSHAM, ok we are now the official clique wheres jeannie xxxxxx

Ossie


Joined: 19/01/2008
Posts: 311

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 18:23

Radio Kent for me but I also was a fan of some of the oldies ie.Dick Barton Special Agent,Journey into Space,

Round the Horn,The Navy Lark and Cliff Mitchelmores Forces Favourites. Now thats just a few,just remembered The Goons!! Now they must give my age away,but I don't care,its great remembering all the old great programs.And last of all hows about Workers Playtime!!

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 18:24

Lilli,

Have I missed something and am I part of the official clique because I am not playing unless Boglefan is as well!!!!!!!!!!! toys out of the pram. xxxx



Chris

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 18:28

chris always you have and always wil be in my gang and boogle goes without saying. now we are officially a clique xxxxxx The IT girls and boys xxxxxxxxxxxx

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 18:33

Long ago - very long ago actually - I listened to Radio Luxembourg 208 (yes, "chrystal set", from Philips Holland, built by myself, 1.5 V battery lasted for ages...) and American Forces Network (AFN) Germany for the live baseball games. Those were the days. More than 50 years later I listen to Radio 1 (Netherlands) for the daily news (Internet) and I have a choice of American Country&Western stations via iTunes on my Macintish computer.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 18:39

mylittle set was blue and you are right hans the batteries lasted a very long time, you know for the life of me I cant remember the DJs senior moment yet i remember all the radio 1 djs, i think one on radio lux was married to anthea turner. god got to switch my memory on . Hans got any long life batteries xxxxxx

hattikins


Joined: 17/02/2008
Posts: 2793

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 19:00

Was it Peter Powell Lilli, that seems to ring a bell. It's Radio 2 for me nowadays I'm afraid, just can't get used to Chris Evans instead of Terry Wogan though, what about Janet and John !

Earlybird


Joined: 28/04/2009
Posts: 816

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 20:54

Don't we all miss Tel and the Togs BUT he is on next Sunday on Radio 2.

cooper


Joined: 23/10/2007
Posts: 3386

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 20:59

Always listen to Heart - http://www.heart.co.uk/london/

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 21:13

Hans

Message 16:



' (yes, "chrystal set", from Philips Holland, built by myself, 1.5 V battery lasted for ages...)



Erm 'crystal' sets did/do not need batteries. That's probably why your battery lasted for ages.

AJ

loulouis


Joined: 13/12/2009
Posts: 234

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 21:25

Radio 2 , Real radio, digi and salti .Radio 2 Chris Evans . Steve wright , Steve Bruce, I used to listen to the Hairy monster, and hey who was the guy who used to have the Love/sob story on 1 ? When in NC Bayrack international.

Loui

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 21:29

Mike Reed...........

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
07/02/2010 21:49

RE msg 21, AJ: (...) Erm 'crystal' sets did/do not need batteries. That's probably why your battery lasted for ages. (...)

=> You're right. Now I try to remember: I confused my first built radio (crystal set, Philips, Holland + earphone if I remember well) with the second one, which used some transistors (the case was the carton box in which the whole set was bought + small speaker and 1,5 V battery, which definitely lasted etc). The earphone was better though, because after nine o'clock or so I could listen to Radio Luxembourg underneath the sheet and blankets - strict parents, you know... First record I ever heard: "Freight train" by ...? Have to Google it. Oh, well, memories...

Offshore1


Joined: 18/05/2009
Posts: 26

Message Posted:
08/02/2010 00:58

Back in the late 1950's in Shropshire, no mains electricity but a valve portable which needed two very expensive batteries. HT & LT. To get a bit more life out of them a couple of hours in the bottom oven of the rayburn did the trick. Moved onto transistor radio in the 60's using the telephone line as an aerial to get Radio Caroline North by day. Will always be very grateful to that station for bringing a bit of entertainment to a teenager in a part of the world the "swinging sixties" had passed by. The internet makes it all so easy now to get radio from all around the world. I can browse for hours....................

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
08/02/2010 05:18

Freight train written by Elizabeth Cotten



Recorded by numerous artistes



First apart from the lady herself may have been Mike Seeger or Chas McDevitt (I think)



AFN for Gridiron in the sixties/seventies also for Wolfman Jack.



Now; CHUM Toronto, HAL Nova Scotia, Fox radio, US, Talksport, 5LIVE.