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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45431
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Jun 26, 05 1:03 pm Post subject: The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett

Radio 4 Mon-Fri 09:45 Book of the Week
The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett

By Richard Ingrams, abridged by Andrew Simpson.

A biography of the renowned author, political reformer and ardent agriculturalist.

1/5. The early rural years and a fateful coach journey to London inadvertently offers Cobbett army life and then wedlock.

Narrated by Oliver Ford Davies.

William Cobbett ...... Stephen Critchlow

[Rptd Tue 12.30am]

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Sun Jun 26, 05 10:13 pm Post subject:
Will miss it. Can you do your techie thing?

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 05 7:14 am Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

Will miss it. Can you do your techie thing?

What's the "techie thing"?

Does it involve sampling the show and distributing it in MP3 format to fellow downsizers???

If so please subscribe me

p.s. copyright is null and void here

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45431
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 05 9:04 am Post subject:
Sort of, except my ftp server seems to be down. I'll try and sort it.

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 05 9:52 am Post subject:
It's ok. I've just found it on the BBC website. You can listen to it on line all this week: https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/book_of_the_week.shtml enjoy

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 05 9:20 pm Post subject:
Please tell me you did your "techie" thing Tahir. I have missed the last couple and would dearly like to hear the whole batch again. Yours hopefully S

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45431
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 05 9:13 am Post subject:

simon wrote:

Please tell me you did your "techie" thing Tahir.

I have but my ftp server doesn't seem to be working right now, I'll PM you the details later for you to try.

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