Ron.M -> RE: Juan Martin on this evening's "Loose Ends". (Oct. 6 2008 8:46:28)
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ron, you must love the radio. Yeah Henry, I listen to Radio 4 all the time and hardly ever watch TV. With radio, you can do other stuff at the same time and still follow what's happening. TV is just like really dumbed down radio, only with visual candy floss to keep your eyes occupied IMO. Last week I watched this economics programme about falling house prices. They demonstrated this by hooking a giant doll's house onto a crane and picked it up about 30 feet. "OK", the gushing financial expert said, "This is your house". "Now watch what happens when house prices rise..." The crane then lifted the doll's house up another 30 feet. "Now this is what happens when house prices fall...." The crane then lowered the doll's house by 30 feet or so. "And THIS is what happens when house prices CRASH...." The crane let go of the doll's house and it fell to the ground and smashed. I mean WTF? Why did it take 5 minutes to explain what rising and falling means and how much was spent on the filming budget? Why did I waste 5 minutes of my life watching it? IMO, most TV is like this. That's why I don't watch it. The only decent two TV programmes are Channel 4 News and The Basil Brush Show [:D] I have a couple of vintage radios, but that one of your uncle's is a real cracker! That "Story of the Guitar" 3 part programme looked good but I had to get up early today so I'm going to watch it on the BBC i player.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dyhyt It will be available for the next 20 days. cheers, Ron
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