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openBBC Radio 4 drama Radio
I just remembered something I'd meant to Worthless Foreign Degree a while back, but I only heard a clip of it on the BBC listener-response show Feedback, and now I can't even remember how long ago it was to find the right episode of Feedback. I'm pretty sure it was some time in the past couple of months, though.
A radio play about immigration, possibly based on true stories. The clip I heard has an Afro-Caribbean woman trying to apply for a job as a teacher at a UK school, and the headmistress bluntly telling her that, as far as she's concerned, a certificate from a Caribbean teacher's college is completely worthless. When the woman questions this, the head assumes (perhaps sarcastically) she's having difficulty understanding, even though she clearly speaks perfect English. And that was the end of the clip.
Edited by DaibhidCopenAs the Jungle Turns Radio
Dubbed the "deep-jungle soap opera saga". A series of audio-only stories with a similar airing pattern with the early WordGirl episodes, where we only got to hear a few minutes of the story before the narrator launched into the "find out next time" speech. You could always hear it on the radio station 101-QFL (which, unfortunately, doesn't exist anymore) in radio host Darren Marlar's morning show each weekday. The plot revolved around one of two sets of characters and settings. Half the time we joined the animals Gruffy Bear, Sully the Aardvark, Racket the Skunk, etc in the jungle. The other half, we caught up with the escapades of one Marty Snuffleson on Razzeflaben (I probably botched that spelling to kingdom come). No matter the cast, the characters—and by extension, the listeners—always learned a Sunday School lesson by the end of the story.
But since QFL went off the air around a decade back, I haven't found any traces of As the Jungle Turns at all. Believe me, I've spend many hours searching the internet for even the mere MENTION of it. With no luck. I just want to relive part of my childhood and listen to a few of the stories again... *all the drama*
openNo Title Radio
There was this commercial and the radio and I forget what it was for but it had the message of "not having a choice sucks" and took place in some high school where instead of asking who you want to the prom, the school would decide for you and announce it on the P.A system like "Bob Johnson you're with Christina Ericson" or something.
openNo Title Radio
I remember listening to this NPR interview with a particular singer back in August of 2012 or 2013, but I can't seem to remember who she was.
She was telling a story about providing vocals for an album back in the 1960's or 1970's. She wasn't a member of the band or even a trained singer at the time, but a guy in the band liked her voice and wanted her to sing one of the new songs for the album. She was really nervous and self-conscious about her voice, to the point that everyone else had to leave the recording studio before she'd sing. After the story they played the song in question. Her voice was somewhat on the softer side, and I vaguely remember that the song was about a beach or something like that.
I know it's not much to go on, but any ideas about who this could be/what song this could've been? This has been driving me nuts for AGES.
Edited by elfindreamsopenNo Title Radio
So I just heard this radio-drama show tonight. It was sci-fi/horror, and it sounded like it was from the fifties, sort of like Twilight Zone. I only listened for a few minutes, but this is what I understood of the plot:
There were three people (a man, a woman, and another man, who was referred to as a captain) who had been in some accident or a car crash. Then, they had found themselves in a world where insects were giant-size, and kept humans as slaves/cattle. The woman and the captain decided to stay in this world, because they were smart, (and I guess wanted to fight the giant insects?). The other man, though, really wanted to go back home, and began to repeat to himself "I'm not dead, I'm not dead". He then woke up in a hospital or something (like the Wizard of Oz) where he was informed that the captain and the woman had died in the accident.
It seemed like an interesting show, and I have no idea if anyone knows what it might be.
openNo Title Radio
This was around ten years ago, maybe a little less. My mom always put these cassettes on in the car (think 'Adventures in Odyssey'). They had stories about this kid who for whatever reason didn't have a great life at school or in his family, and he would dream about this land filled with talking animals that taught him lessons about whatever. He always reached this place by having some water-filled object in his room suddenly overflow (I remember the author explicitly using the word 'gushing' excessively) and his room filling up with water. He would wake up on his bed on a beach in this animal land. I don't remember much about the characters but one of them was a coyote who was insistent on his name being pronounced 'koy-oh-tay'. They would also always read the phone number at the end of the tape and had some jokes about the number ending with '0000'. It may or may not have had a religious slant.
Edited by cheddarfaceopenNo Title Radio
I don't have much hope for finding this, because I've been looking for it for years and years now. Essentially, I'm pretty sure it was something I heard on Radio 4 because I used to listen to a lot of that. Drama, or play, or show, which was about a concert that some rock band did many many years ago, and it follows the lives of people who were at that concert and how they sort of revolved around it afterwards. I think maybe one of the people ran away to see the concert, and it was broadcast from 2005-2009. Could've been a dramatization of an audiobook. Sorry I can't remember more
openNo Title Radio
This is a reverse YKTS, so I hope Tropers forgive me.
I'm looking for a pair of audio clips that used to be hosted on this site:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050905094404/http://www.geocities.com/radiojunkie3/WGU20.html
As you can see, URL is Geocities, and Archive.org didn't archive the clips.
If anyone knows if/where they got rehosted, I would be thankful. I did try emailing the old webmaster at his last known email address, but Mailer Daemon just returned a Delay Mail message.
I've watched this series awhile ago I vagly remember it but I really wanna watch it again I remember it being about a mom and a boy and this boy (probably around age 12-15) goes to school and I think he had a problem bc I rember the mom helping him when he has almost like regular asthma or panic attacks. The main part I remember of the series is when the boy meets this goth girl and she is mean to him at first but he follows her I think and they are in her backyard and she kisses him. I also remember that he goes to this I think toy shop a lot, Which I believe the goth girl introduces him to. The mom could or could not of been struggling with drug addiction too.I honestly can Bearly remember it but I really wanna know what it was and it driving me crazy.
Edited by Maxwell223