AuthorRichard Herring
NarratorRichard Herring
SeriesRichard Herring's Objective Series 1, Book 2
Duration28m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, British Radio Comedy Shows
PublisherAudio Go Ltd
VersionUnabridged
In this BBC Radio 4 series, Richard Herring attempts to reclaim objects that we've grown to fear and hate because of what they symbolise. Via stand-up comedy, vox pops and interviews, he tackles a selection of things that have been given a bad name. In this episode, he looks at the hoodie. How has a tracksuit top with a hood attached come to inspire fear in modern Britain and is it actually used as an excuse to demonise the young? Are the country's teenagers all out of control knife-wielding, drug-taking, promiscuous trouble-makers or are they mainly quite pleasant, if somewhat self-obsessed, easily bored and angst-ridden individuals? And is a hood actually any scarier than a pair of mittens? Richard explores what our fear is really all about, and interviews both a criminologist who has studied the moral panic about hoodies and the organisers of a hoodie festival.
Richard Herring's Objective: Edinburgh Special
Author: Richard Herring
Author Richard Herring
Narrator Richard Herring
Duration 27m
The Edinburgh Fringe edition of 'Objective', in which Richard Herring considers the 'See You Jimmy' hat and what it symbolises about our attitudes to Scots and redheads. The 'See You Jimmy' hat is a tartan cap and ginger hair combo, widely available in tourist shops throughout Scotland. In this special episode, recorded at the Edinburge Fringe Fest...
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Richard Herring's Objective: Series 1, Episode 3
Author: Richard Herring
Author Richard Herring
Narrator Richard Herring
SeriesRichard Herring's Objective Series 1, Book 3
Duration 28m
In this BBC Radio 4 series, Richard Herring attempts to reclaim objects that we've grown to fear and hate because of what they symbolise. Via stand-up comedy, vox pops and interviews, he tackles a selection of things that have been given a bad name. In this episode, he's trying to rescue the English National Flag from its associations with far-righ...
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Chain Reaction Complete Series 8
Author: BBC Radio 4
Author BBC Radio 4
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 51m
Chain Reaction' is the entertaining BBC Radio 4 tag talk show where this week's guest is next week's interviewer. Famous names from the world of showbusiness choose who they would like to chat to, and must submit to being questioned in their turn the week after. In this eighth series, guests (and hosts) include Catherine Tate, David Tennant, Richar...
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Richard Herring's Objective: Series 1, Episode 4
Author: Richard Herring
Author Richard Herring
Narrator Richard Herring
SeriesRichard Herring's Objective Series 1, Book 4
Duration 27m
In this BBC Radio 4 series, Richard Herring attempts to reclaim objects that we've grown to fear and hate because of what they symbolise. Via stand-up comedy, vox pops and interviews, he tackles a selection of things that have been given a bad name. In this final show from the first series, Richard discusses Dolly the sheep as he examines why we ar...
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Richard Herring's Objective: Series 1, Episode 1
Author: Richard Herring
Author Richard Herring
Narrator Richard Herring
SeriesRichard Herring's Objective Series 1, Book 1
Duration 28m
In this BBC Radio 4 series, Richard Herring attempts to reclaim objects that we've grown to fear and hate because of what they symbolise. Via stand-up comedy, vox pops and interviews, he tackles a selection of things that have been given a bad name. This episode sees him tackling the toothbrush moustache on behalf of comedy - taking it back from Hi...
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Grumpy Old Men the Secret Diary
Author: Stuart Prebble
Author Stuart Prebble
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 14m
To everything there is a season. A time to be born, a time to die... and a time to get a few things off your chest. The sequel to Grumpy Old Men: The Official Handbook covers a year in the sad and sordid life of a Grumpy Old Man, sorting into dates and seasons the many and manifold bloody irritations which multiply in this perpetual torment that we...
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The Museum of Curiosity: Series 9-12
Author: John Lloyd
Author John Lloyd
Narrator Various
Duration 11h 7m
oin Professor John Lloyd and Curators Noel Fielding, Jo Brand, Romesh Ranganathan and Sally Phillips as they plunge down the badger hole of ignorance in a search for the universe's most mind-boggling oddnesses. The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. It allows nothing inside...
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Author: Sue Perkins
Author Sue Perkins
Narrator The Authors
Duration 1h 50m
Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins offer you more than your fair share of laughs, songs and silliness in their imaginatively titled BBC Radio 4 series.
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Author: Mitchell Victoria Coren
Author Mitchell Victoria Coren
Narrator Victoria Coren Mitchell
Duration 1h 50m
Victoria Coren Mitchell interviews Dawn French, Olivia Colman, Sarah Millican and Germaine Greer in this four-part BBC Radio 4 series. In these four episodes, presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell and guests discuss their lives as seen through the prism of the cars they have known, the journeys they've been on and the things they keep in their boot for...
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The Infinite Monkey Cage --the Complete Series 14-17
Author: Robin Ince
Author Robin Ince
Narrator Various
Duration 10h 10m
Brian Cox and Robin Ince present a witty, irreverent look at the world according to science. The Infinite Monkey Cage has become one of BBC Radio 4's most popular science-based programmes. In each episode physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince delve into a particular field of science, with the help of guests from the worlds of science, academi...
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