The BBC have turned my friend Rory Stewart’s book about walking across Afghanistan into the Thursday Afternoon Play this week (2.15pm, Radio 4).
You can use the link to listen to the show for up to a week after the broadcast, which is helpful, as only a madman (or madwoman) turns on Radio 4 in the afternoon before 10pm.
“as only a madman (or madwoman) turns on Radio 4 in the afternoon before 10pm”
Why??? This would mean you miss such programmes as PM, the 6 o’clock News, Just A Minute, the Moral Maze, Question Time, and the Archers. OK, maybe only mad(wo)men want to listen to the Archers.
Unless of course your point is that once you turn Radio 4 on, you end up doing nothing else with your day….?
Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. (The former, that you’d miss all those programmes, not the latter, that you’d do nothing else with your day.)
I’ve a friend who’s rather a fan of the Archers, and I tend to think of him as quite sane. Though, come to think of it, he’s also a Hegelian. — so maybe not.
I just found out my partner’s mother is an avid reader of Archers fanfiction online, which kind of scared the hell out of me.
Oh, Christ. I didn’t know there was such a thing as Archers fanfiction (whether online or off).
Me neither. I thought I was an open-minded, unshockable kind of woman, but apparently not.
I heard the play and enjoyed it very much. It left me with odd thoughts though.