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96.3 - QFM ♪♪“Radio drifts like smoke into intimate places in people's lives and becomes their private property. Its association colours and punctuates vital daily rituals. It is structure and stimulation, a companion for tedious chores and a reward at the end of them” ♪♪ Liz Forgan, The Times ♪♪ Sounds quite good doesn’t it? I found this little gem of ‘broadsheet prose’ while scouring the internet for information to use in the construction of this dooyoo opinion. I found it on a site belonging to a company called, “RadioWorks”, whose homepage was emblazoned ...  Read the complete review

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (ISIHAC) is Radio 4's "antidote to panel games" in which four celebrities (and I use that term wrongly) are given silly things to do by their droll chairman - the jazz-trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton, until his assistant-cum-score-keeper, the lovely Samantha, blows his horn. (Incidentally, 80-year-old Humph was recently heard blowing his horn on the track Living In A Glass House on the Radiohead album: Amnesiac.) A spin off from I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, ISIHAC was devised by Graeme Garden, and first broadcast on Tuesday 11th April 1972. The other two Goodies (Bill Oddie and Tim ...  Read the complete review

If you grant me a modicum of leeway, I will introduce you to something which, until now, has only been the preserve of the learned and initiate, among whose number I happily include myself. If you don your deerstalker and look and listen carefully, you will find, among the schedules of Radio 4, a programme which provides intellectual stimulation to many thousands of people. This isn't 'A Book at Bedtime' (I prefer a nice mug of Ovaltine), or 'The Archers', although that is a worthy and magnificent programme in its own right. It is something that is much more enjoyable, and is better than snuggling up next to the woman you love, or Ffion Hague, ...  Read the complete review

Scot FM is an Edinburgh based radio station with consistently good programming. My Favorite is the "Wee Fat Boab" show, weeknights from 10pm to 1am, It's presented by fat bob who's catch phrase seems to be "This is the only radio show where anyone can call in and ask to talk about anything because it's your show", quite a mouthfull, and the truth is that hundreds of people do call in and try to talk about anything from the price of rubber truncheons in China, to Incest. There has been some very hairy topics discussed and the show has been threatened with the chop many times. Wee Fat Boab holds things together very well, ...  Read the complete review

Radio 4, mid-week early evening, but repeated on Saturdays at 12.30pm. Four talented mimics, a list of writers as long as your arm, have produced one of the funniest programmes on the radio at the moment. I defy anybody to walk into the room and not think they are listening to Brian Perkins, the newsreader, hallucinating after a lunch of magic mushrooms. Those well modulated, dulcet tones talking in the style of a Rikki Lake guest, like 'Don't diss me!!' Radio puts pictures in your head, and this programme certainly does. All your favourites are imitated to the point of believability. The Archers,Melvyn Bragg, The Today programme, ...  Read the complete review