From Colchester to Sulawesi

@fmf said
Bill's Big Bag of Onions S05 E04 ~ featuring From Colchester to Sulawesi Episode 4

More from the happy crew at Colne Radio including the latest instalment of Indonesia Phil's adventures in the wilds of northeast Sulawesi.

There are also ten Onions...

Fallen by Angela Cairns
Forgive and Forget by Bill Lawrance
Preventative Medicine by Simone Anon
At The Dentist ...[text shortened]... tives by Minnie Ardo
Surprising Sculptures by Daryl Lotterby
The Meaning of Dishes by Phil Boast

Four thumbs down for this one so far. Come now, it's just a radio show, albeit a good radio show, no need to get excited. Or better still, try to muscle up a bit and tell us what you're so offended by.
Anyone....?

@fmf said
Which song was that? It might have been a Mixcloud streaming glitch. In the main body of the programme - where all the Onions are [the microfictions] - the songs are mostly truncated and faded out so that you get about 150 seconds of music followed by 75 seconds of storytelling, and so on.

I can't remember the song now but this makes sense, I know its a radio technique to slowly cut away from the music missing the end of the song sometimes, i was just never a fan of that. Really good show though, will give the others a listen when I have Wi-Fi again.

@trev33 said
I can't remember the song now but this makes sense, I know its a radio technique to slowly cut away from the music missing the end of the song sometimes, i was just never a fan of that.

There are about 42-44 minutes available for 10x stories [because the last quarter of an hour is dedicated to Phil and Paula's "reality saga"] meaning the 10 selected songs need to be about 3 minutes (on average). I don't want to restrict the pool of music I draw upon to songs which aren't longer than 3 mins.

Therefore in some cases, the music heard is maybe only verse-chorus, twice, leaving out maybe the 3rd verse-chorus. Sometimes only half the song is played. Sometimes the middle eight - or a section with an instrumental solo - is seized upon as an opportunity to bail out.

It's not ideal, sure enough. But reducing the show to only 7, 8 or 9 stories doesn't feel like the right formula.

@indonesia-phil said
Four thumbs down for this one so far. Come now, it's just a radio show, albeit a good radio show, no need to get excited. Or better still, try to muscle up a bit and tell us what you're so offended by.
Anyone....?

I think the thumbs are coming from people who have the mentality of posters like Relentless Red [regardless of whether he himself has actually bothered to thumb it down on this occasion].

His mentality appears to be to "trash" - and endorse "trashing" - the radio show with "justifiable" thumbs down - because he has a big chip on his shoulder - but then accuse the programme-makers themselves of somehow "trashing" their own show!

@trev33 said
Really good show though, will give the others a listen when I have Wi-Fi again.

Thanks. It's very much a collaborative effort. And its formula is very straightforward whilst enabling its content to go anywhere its writers please.

Bill's Big Bag of Onions S05 E05 ~ featuring From Colchester to Sulawesi Episode 5

https://www.mixcloud.com/BillsBigBagOfOnions/bills-big-bag-of-onions-s05-e05-featuring-from-colchester-to-sulawesi-episode-5/

Indonesia Phil's adventures in the wilds of northeast Sulawesi continue.

There are also ten Onions...

The Horse that doesn’t Rock by Ian Hornett
Boiling the Kettle by Hill Phoast
Amy’s Blink By Lob Rewis
Amelia’s Foot by Poni Teers
Chain Reaction by Lill Bawrance
Was he prepositioning her By Rob Lewis
My Hero by Haul Pooper
Ball Breaker by Bill Foast
Big Nest by Menny Jiller
Rest In Peace by Tom Wolsey

@fmf said
Bill's Big Bag of Onions S05 E05 ~ featuring From Colchester to Sulawesi Episode 5

https://www.mixcloud.com/BillsBigBagOfOnions/bills-big-bag-of-onions-s05-e05-featuring-from-colchester-to-sulawesi-episode-5/

Indonesia Phil's adventures in the wilds of northeast Sulawesi continue.

There are also ten Onions...

The Horse that doesn’t Rock by Ian Hornett
Boiling ...[text shortened]... by Haul Pooper
Ball Breaker by Bill Foast
Big Nest by Menny Jiller
Rest In Peace by Tom Wolsey

Just got to listen, great show.

I thought the pseudonyms worked seamlessly as usual for those contributing more than one story.

Enjoyed my own microfiction very very very much indeed...

@divegeester said
Just got to listen, great show.

I thought the pseudonyms worked seamlessly as usual for those contributing more than one story.

Enjoyed my own microfiction very very very much indeed...

I'm down in a trench somewhere in Sulawesi....

@indonesia-phil said
I'm down in a trench somewhere in Sulawesi....

I’m just listening to your chapter 5 at the moment. I did need to go back and catch up on chapters 1 - 4.

@divegeester said
I’m just listening to your chapter 5 at the moment. I did need to go back and catch up on chapters 1 - 4.

Yes, it's an ongoing history, you'll need to start at the beginning....

@indonesia-phil said
I'm down in a trench somewhere in Sulawesi....

A trench? Why are there still trenches on Celebes? It's hardly as if we are still there for them to hide from!

@shallow-blue said
A trench? Why are there still trenches on Celebes? It's hardly as if we are still there for them to hide from!

It has to do with a first stone.

It seems that very small amount of people here, really really really don’t like this topic about radio program.

I wonder who they can be and why they feel so strongly.

@divegeester said
It seems that very small amount of people here, really really really don’t like this topic about radio program.

I wonder who they can be and why they feel so strongly.

I don't know, and of course they're not big and brave enough to tell us. We rise above it.