Torty Talks

I perform it as David Attenborough - again. A reading of a piece created by Kelly Shanley medium.com/slackjaw/david-atte…-again-42b2e19d4a43 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

My hopes for the future based on the trials of the present caused by the shortsightedness of the past. A hopefully upbeat comical reading of the way the world actually is changing - so we can all have the future I talk about in another podcast. #comic monologue #green #covid --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

Musings on the remarkable technical achievements people have made - followed by a comic reading of stuff I didn't write !  A reading of a piece created by Kelly Shanley medium.com/slackjaw/david-atte…-again-42b2e19d4a43 Drunk 30 something - narrated by (a) David Attenborough (impersonator) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

Well, my wife hasn't got it, so may be I got something else. This is the story of why we may have made a mess of the test for Covid ! Slightly funny if you can stand an idiot at 6 am with a dead brain. My test result is back now too - after three months - I 'didn't have Covid when the test was made'. That tells us nothing except that there was indeed no point in taking it - as I said... I think. Blood test next. I 'm not doing THAT myself ! #covid #corona --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

This is three hours of Dawn Chorus, recorded over three days. A few cars and the milkman removed plus a bit of trimming to make it run under three hours by a minute. No idents at either end - it's all the birds of Barking in London during the lockdown. 4am to 5am early May 2020 . This is natural background - unless you listen to it. The birds are talking to each other, you can hear conversations, competitions, copying, outdoing each other, may be having fun. They take it in turns to grandstand after the first wakeup burst at about 4am. There are three of these wakeup calls, and loads of songs. I have recorded the Dawn Chorus before - as a podcast - before the lockdown. It is clear to me the birds like the lack of traffic ! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

This does not complete my story, I am still not well as I type this. In part three, I eventually come home - on the same day ! I have much more to say - including a lot of thank yous ! My word, the NHS staff are fantastic ! #NHS #Covid19 #Corona --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

This is the continuing story of an unexpected trip to Hospital with suspected Corona Virus.  This 'episode' stars Stevie my nurse, half my height and weight and almost exactly my age - a month older. He knows I'm recording  and is happy to be happy. He had it last month... #Covid 19 #Corona #NHS --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

This is part one of my partly accidentally documented story - that is still unfolding - of my sudden hospitalisation with - possibly - ' The Virus' #NHS #Covid-19 #Carona_Virus # --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

My thoughts and experiences as the shutdown effects deepen in Barking London. #chronavirus #covid19 #surviving #barking #community #Green #environment #society #future #newworld --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

... being the Dawn Chorus with rather more birds than yesterday's podcast. This lasts for almost two hours, you'd wonder how they don't get tired - if they weren't birds. #dawnchorus #birds #quietlondon --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

05:30 to 06:15 BST . Recorded from a window ledge in Barking, London. I have edited out the sound of three cars and the milkman - basically though - no one is around so far this morning. Mostly, this is a recording of our Blackbird. Enjoy ! #DawnChorus #birds #quietlondon --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

Well, not specifically this, but something like it - what ever this is. Decades of environmental effort may have helped the planet get ready for this current trial, I hope so. Here, I rant about it all - again. This shall be the last actual rant I think. May be the next podcast shall have some laughs in it. #chronavirus #covid19 #surviving #barking #community #Green #environment #society #future #newworld --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

This is an in depth talk - documenting the changes to our society as they happen. I give my view of why and what should stay changed -  then - I cheer up a bi with the sound of a YouTube video I voiced about a Christmas office party. The full and more splendid version is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zbl7MsPd7g - Amber Doig-Thorne is the writer.   #chronavirus #covid19 #surviving #barking #community #Green #environment #society #future #newworld --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

Well, we told you so - environmental reasons for 'the virus' - and the changes that should result from it. #chronavirus #covid19 #surviving #barking #community #Green #environment #society #future #newworld --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

This is an apology.  I hate adverts, loath the things. I used to remove them from TV programs as part of my job. When it was my job to transmit them, I turned down the sound.  I think products should sell themselves, but, I realise people have to know the thing exists and have a clue what it is and does and so, here is my alternative text entry system for mobile phones. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

My intention is to draw a picture of my historic view of the process of a male person getting his ( my ) hair shortened. It was so difficult that for ten years I didn't. That is another story... should have been in this one come to think of it. Nothing political in this one, I don't even mention the environmental crisis or cars ! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

This one has been actually written, not another stream of random thoughts. The plan is that it's light hearted, may be even comic. The content? Headphones down the ages... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

Roadside parking and why my compass didn't work. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

Topics current in February 2020, the passing of time, a partly light hearted, but deep conversation with myself. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

In 1978 a lot of people queued for the Last Night of the Proms, a truly British  activity. But now the overnight queuing has been banned and the day queue only lasts for a few hours, not weeks. This is a record of the queue from back then - including an interview with Richard Baker - the BBC news and music man. RIP. OK, it's also a history of the start of my Prom going life - and my sadness at the effect the process of Brexit has had on me of  'Being British'  #Richard Baker  #Proms #Royal Albert Hall #Being British #Brexit --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message