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[Ned Flanders]

..consideration..forethought...

It sounds like everything I wish American radio sounded like. No rush to judgment, absolute consideration for perspective and alternative viewpoints, and the onus put on the listener's discretion.

After leaving work late, NPR's broadcasts of the BBC sound like a beacon of clarity after hours of tabloid headines and Limbaughesque partisan talk shows. Their seeming lack of enthusiasm for the subject matter is a plus IMO, given the considerable vehemency and occassionally vitriolic slant afforded to much of American radio journalism.

Between this and late night airings of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels on IFC, it seems as though the British are attempting to lure me into citizenship, and I dare say it's working. I'm in direct opposition to the more socialistic leanings of the UK and greater Europe, but their seemingly enlightened disposition is becoming increasingly enticing to me as I spend more time in the land of evangelism that has become the USA. God bless the BBC!!*

*Overt intentional irony

 

[fart]

there are places in this world where thought is not only condoned, but encouraged! don't look so shocked.

 

[iapetus]

Which BBC radio channel do you get? World Service? There's more personality to, for example, Radio 4's political programs, but they still do a great job of being fair and balanced (and not in the Fox sense). Three cheers for publicly funded broadcasting.

 

[DSN2K]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/

listen to all of them here I think.

 

[iapetus]

I recommend Any Questions (and to a lesser extent Any Answers) on Radio 4 for an example of what political programming should be like (although it's mostly UK-centric).

 

[Koshiro]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/dance/nightingale/index.shtml?dp_rhn_annie_title
I recommend people listen to this one, breaks are the way forward people!

 

[Fowler]

BBC Radio 5 Live's football coverage is so good I mute the TV and turn the radio up. Not that this matters to any of you, but since we're having a BBC Radio circle-jerk...

 

[Hooker]

^ I used to do that as well with the radio broadcasts here. But none of them are synced to the telly Which sucks loads of ass

 

[Musashi Wins!]

World Service nearly puts me to sleep if I'm driving and it comes on, though I'm sympathetic to their reporting. It's not that they avoid sensationalism, it's almost anti-presentation. zzzzzzzz.

 

[Azih]

You should try CBC Radio as well.

 

[Anthropic]

BBC World Service really kicks ass.

Being a shortwave fan, a few years ago I first realized how cruddy our news was here when I was hearing news of world events that wouldn't creep into our news coverage for weeks, if not ever, on BBC World Service. Unfortunately, it was shortly after that when they shut down their shortwave transmitter for North America. You can still pick up their broadcasts from other transmitters (shortwave being shortwave), but they also don't broadcast to this hemisphere from Midnight to 5:00AM, which is the only time I can really listen.

I knew that some NPR stations around the country did World Service at night, like WBUR Boston, but none of the stations near me carried it. Recently I discovered that my college (Bowling Green in Ohio) is at the extreme edge of the range of the University of Michigan's WUOM in Ann Arbor, and so I'll be taking back a nice antenna contraption to try to get that station in better.

 

[MrPing1000]

Radio 5 is all I need

 

[firex]

you can get BBC world service (and maybe some other BBC stations) on either XM or Sirius satellite radio. I love the news on "the world today" (which is what they broadcast on my NPR station, it's the 11 pm GMT-midnight hour of news I believe, or the midnight-1 AM hour) because they seem to really search for interesting stories, and the most newsworthy ones have really in-depth coverage. the human interest stories they broadcast are great, too. we don't get anything like it on regular radio here, not even on the NPR stations that host BBC World Service.

 

[Pimpwerx]

BBC at night when I go to bed, NPR during the day when I get home. The best of both worlds. PEACE.