[youngian]

BBC’s radio output app Sounds is producing its own documentaries starting with this gripping but oh so familiar story of Dr Ruja Ignatova who promised the world she could spin shit into gold by investing with her bitcoin currency. Financially literate and convincing that her libertarian currency would set you free from those evil greedy bankers and governments. Find out if there was a happy ending. The presenter is not just thinking about Ponzi schemes: “Rational people get drawn into movements that promise life changing experiences all the time. Often its not about evidence and logic but faith, belief and hope. Operating on that level rational arguments rarely work especially if it’s more comforting to keep believing.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd ... /downloads

[Bones McCoy]

BBC’s radio output app Sounds is producing its own documentaries starting with this gripping but oh so familiar story of Dr Ruja Ignatova who promised the world she could spin shit into gold by investing with her bitcoin currency. Financially literate and convincing that her libertarian currency would set you free from those evil greedy bankers and governments. Find out if there was a happy ending. The presenter is not just thinking about Ponzi schemes: “Rational people get drawn into movements that promise life changing experiences all the time. Often its not about evidence and logic but faith, belief and hope. Operating on that level rational arguments rarely work especially if it’s more comforting to keep believing.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd ... /downloads

I heard a review of the show.
Scammers are everywhere.
Aside from the pyramid selling aspect; the cult like approach of the movement has some interesting parallels with the Brexit movement.

[Boiler]

My biggest concern is the sheer amount of energy used to maintain the blockchain in this currency for crooks and cunts.

[AOB]

Imagine if the Daily Mail had a Sounds app. Jeez could you imagine that?? Littlejohn and Hitchens narrating their columns?? And some actor haughtily exclaiming the front page headline "NOW they expect us to pay for our food at restaurants!" Or some other nonsense.

[The Red Arrow]

Imagine if the Daily Mail had a Sounds app. Jeez could you imagine that??

Yup.

[Kreuzberger]

SCREENWIPE!!!

[Boiler]

Well, I expect this will be hilarious.

Little Britain returns for Brexit special

[spoonman]

Well, I expect this will be hilarious.

Little Britain returns for Brexit special

'Twas never a fan much of it myself, but I can see some potential in a couple of characters like Vicky Pollard playing Corbyn's Brexit advisor...

"Yeah, but no, but yeah, but no..."

[youngian]

Johnny Speight wrote some Till Death do us Part episodes on Europe during the 70s. Scouse git was a Leaver while Alf was a Remainer due to the Tory PM and papers telling him he should be.

[Oblomov]

Johnny Speight wrote some Till Death do us Part episodes on Europe during the 70s. Scouse git was a Leaver while Alf was a Remainer due to the Tory PM and papers telling him he should be.

I've gone looking for these but unfortunately I can only find his ENOCH WOZ RITE rants

[The Weeping Angel]

Radio 4 are doing another James Bond adaptation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gdtd

[The Weeping Angel]

Listening to the adaptation of The Man with the Golden Gun was the highlight of my day and managed to make me forget about fucking covid 19.

[Boiler]

D'you know, it's been absolutely ages since I last switched on the radio and sat and listened to a play? The last time I did was to listen to Adrian Edmondson in The Accidental Death Of An Anarchist when it was first broadcast on what was then BBC Radio Five - note, not Five Live as it later became...

[AOB]

Johnny Speight wrote some Till Death do us Part episodes on Europe during the 70s. Scouse git was a Leaver while Alf was a Remainer due to the Tory PM and papers telling him he should be.

If that was now it would without doubt the other way round! Alf's a Leaver through and through and Scouse git staunch Remain. Alf would be a Wethies regular, outwardly disparaging of the internet and mobile phones (but secretly have one so he could text Arthur to meet him for a pint).

[Oblomov]

D'you know, it's been absolutely ages since I last switched on the radio and sat and listened to a play? The last time I did was to listen to Adrian Edmondson in The Accidental Death Of An Anarchist when it was first broadcast on what was then BBC Radio Five - note, not Five Live as it later became...

Radio 4 had a decent dramatization of the Suez Crisis a couple of months ago.