A breath of fresh air to hear a real reader (and Alex Jennings, reading here, is a fine one too..). So many novels on YT now are read via AI and after 10 minutes I have to throw in the towel.
I hate them - so boring, so monotonous, stop in the middle of sentences, pronounce words wrong, have no nuance or emotion. They’re automatons and producers don’t have to pay real actors, putting them out of work!!!!!!! I can’t listen at all. Horrible!!!!!!!! ☹️🫣🙄😬😳
Somerset Maugham was a superlative author; his stories are rife with incisive character sketches, unrelenting dramatic tension, and queer surprises that invariably reveal nuanced layers of human paradox. I urge you to read his written words.
Oh, stop narking. HIGNFY is funny, and since the current season started the main objects of fun have been Starmer, Reeves, Rayner, Yvette, Ed Balls, all of them. It's calling those in power to account -- if it looked left-wing for years it's because the Tories were in for so much of the time. Blair and Brown are still targets of occasional abuse. Get a sense-of-humour transplant -- Ian Hislop is far from left wing. Merton would not appear to have any politics at all.
A breath of fresh air to hear a real reader (and Alex Jennings, reading here, is a fine one too..). So many novels on YT now are read via AI and after 10 minutes I have to throw in the towel.
I hate them - so boring, so monotonous, stop in the middle of sentences, pronounce words wrong, have no nuance or emotion. They’re automatons and producers don’t have to pay real actors, putting them out of work!!!!!!! I can’t listen at all. Horrible!!!!!!!! ☹️🫣🙄😬😳
Excellent short story, very enjoyable. 🎉
BBC drama just always outshines itself.
Somerset Maugham was a superlative author; his stories are rife with incisive character sketches, unrelenting dramatic tension, and queer surprises that invariably reveal nuanced layers of human paradox. I urge you to read his written words.
Radio 4 Xtra has access to the finest collection of radio drama in the world, but elects to churn up some of the most dismal content known to man.
Excellent short storied
Very nice. But the skips were annoying.
You could say that again!!!!!!!!!!
It amazes me how a corporation that can produce thus can also churn out the most left wing diatribe known as HIGNFY and Question Time etc.
Question time left wing?😂
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If you don’t think it is then you are far left of far left wing.
Oh, stop narking. HIGNFY is funny, and since the current season started the main objects of fun have been Starmer, Reeves, Rayner, Yvette, Ed Balls, all of them. It's calling those in power to account -- if it looked left-wing for years it's because the Tories were in for so much of the time. Blair and Brown are still targets of occasional abuse. Get a sense-of-humour transplant -- Ian Hislop is far from left wing. Merton would not appear to have any politics at all.
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Just a bunch of lefties having a love in.
@@VLind-uk6mb I’m sure you’re right. But you might consider being less “narky” yourself? 😂