Saturday, 26 January 2019

My only condition to Brexit





If we ever do leave the E.U. then I INSIST that BBC radio revert back to the early morning sign-on music when it leaves the World Service. It has everything that makes me proud to be British, especially when I am lying in bed at 5.00 am with a hangover. I don't know why they scrapped it in the first place. Trying to attract youth I suppose. 'Sounds'? Fuck off.
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29 comments:

  1. Tom Stephenson26 January 2019 at 12:21

    I am serious about this. I used to love lying there listening to the musical representation of all the nations that make up the British Isles. It even has a piece written by Henry the Eighth - the very first Brexiteer.

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  2. Joanne Noragon26 January 2019 at 15:44

    I feel the same way about America the Beautiful. Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves! But how about Roll on Columbia, roll on. Your power is turning our darkness to dawn. Or, Woody. This land is your land, this land is my land. Interesting==I see my soul stirrers are all about land, and yours about power. Ah well, both the same, aren't they.

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    1. Tom Stephenson26 January 2019 at 16:29

      Land and sea. Mainly sea in Europe's case. Control of the sea was the key to power.

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    2. Tom Stephenson27 January 2019 at 04:41

      And we are a small island.

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    3. elegancemaison27 January 2019 at 14:38

      Britannia Rule the Waves! ( Not Rules.) I'ts an exhortation. But fucking useless now we have an aircraft carrier without aircraft, a couple of small cutters and a few fishing boats. FFS.

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    4. Tom Stephenson27 January 2019 at 17:00

      And a ferry company which has no experience of ferries, let alone any boats.

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    5. Joanne Noragon28 January 2019 at 16:14

      OMG, that was a typo. I apologize to the extreme. An exhortation and a fact.

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  3. Cro Magnon26 January 2019 at 20:50

    I totally agree. There was something very reassuring about hearing it every day. All was right with the world!

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    1. Tom Stephenson27 January 2019 at 04:41

      They still have the shipping forecast music - at the moment...

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  4. A Heron's View26 January 2019 at 23:47

    'Land of Soap and Gory' is what a relation of mine used to sing.

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    1. Tom Stephenson27 January 2019 at 04:48

      What strange relations you must have.

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    2. A Heron's View27 January 2019 at 09:39

      The second bit was 'Land of trouble and strife' and I cannot recall the rest unfortunately.
      My relation did not believe in conforming to the status quo perhaps some of that rubbed off on me..

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  5. potty27 January 2019 at 00:33

    I have to admit that I did not know about this. What a shame. I have BBC 4 Extra on overnight and they just change the Announcer at 6am your time. There is no news and weather 'on the hour' and I think it suits me and my blood pressure!

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    1. Tom Stephenson27 January 2019 at 04:43

      You listen to the radio all night, every night?

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    2. potty27 January 2019 at 10:12

      Yes, it's going in an earpiece but I do of course sleep through a lot of it usually the best bits!

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    3. Tom Stephenson27 January 2019 at 11:31

      I do that sometimes too. We both must have troubled minds.

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  6. The Weaver of Grass27 January 2019 at 02:30

    Listening to the radio in the middle of the night? Changing the announcer at 6am? What is going on here?
    I thought night time was for snuggling up in bed asleep (or making mad passionate love if you are so inclined) but really -

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    1. Tom Stephenson27 January 2019 at 04:48

      A candlelit dinner for one followed by unbridled passion in a single bed with the World Service playing softly in the background. No rest until Farming Today.

      "Darling, last night was wonderful. Shame you weren't here".

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  7. John Going Gently27 January 2019 at 08:32

    I went to see a middle class , liberal stand up comic last night who had a gentle pop at Brexit
    Two people hurled abuse at him and walked out!

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  8. Rachel Phillips27 January 2019 at 09:32

    They had a new Radio 4 controller, an Oxford man, who scrapped it on his arrival. No surprises there. He has gone now, back to academia, so perhaps someone nice might bring it back if you ask again.

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    1. Tom Stephenson27 January 2019 at 11:29

      I'll let Brexit unfold then ask - if I am still alive.

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  9. Minigranny28 January 2019 at 07:36

    I'm just reading "And Now on Radio 4" By Simon Elmes which reminded me of the music compilation. I seem to remember Lillibolero from way back when.

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    1. Tom Stephenson28 January 2019 at 13:28

      Hum it to me - I may remember.

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    2. potty29 January 2019 at 04:06

      That was (is) the World Service tune.

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    3. Minigranny29 January 2019 at 06:23

      Ah you are right - must have been a memory from when we lived abroad.

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  10. Minigranny29 January 2019 at 03:45

    De de de de diddle de dero diddle de diddle de diddle de de - ad infinitum

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