Deep underwater, submariners are likely unaware of pandemic

Re:Deep underwater, submariners are likely unaware of pandemic by sgt101 on Monday March 30, 2020 @01:13PM (#22729906)

The funny thing is that The Archers is extremely likely to go off the air in the very near future (they can't record any at the moment and they only have a couple of weeks in the can). Since the availability of The Archers is the key sign of life for the UK we better all pray that the Boomer on duty changes shift soon! (or this whole radio 4 thing is utter bollocks)

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Re:Deep underwater, submariners are likely unaware of pandemic by chrisseaton on Monday March 30, 2020 @01:23PM (#22730012)

Why aren't they recording at home? My understanding was the many of the characters record individually anyway. At least the child actors definitely did, so it must be possible to act and edit together this way. I think cartoons all record individually.

You only need a half-decent microphone.

You could do it on a bad microphone if you wanted!

The Archers is a timeless part of the background noise in many family kitchens in the UK. Seems a shame not to fight through this little piece of calm for normal families in this time of crisis.

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Re:Deep underwater, submariners are likely unaware of pandemic by simonw on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:28PM (#22730727)

They're building out home recording capacity right now, and will be recording from home (on a slightly reduced schedule) shortly: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52084510

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Re:Deep underwater, submariners are likely unaware of pandemic by ceejayoz on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:01PM (#22730446)

"amongst other checks"

If BBC4 goes down, but you're still able to call London on a satellite phone, you don't go nuking Russia. If you have a half dozen different signs of nuclear war and BBC4 is down, it's a point in the "well shit" direction.

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Re:Deep underwater, submariners are likely unaware of pandemic by soneil on Monday March 30, 2020 @08:14PM (#22733652)

That's it - they don't depend on the BBC. It's more a troubleshooting step. If the light in the kitchen doesn't work, but the one in the living room does, there's something wrong with the kitchen light. If everything's off, there's something wrong with your electricity.

So if Northwood goes silent, but the cricket is uninterupted, there's probably something wrong with Northwood. If everything's gone, there's probably something wrong with your radio. But if Northwood's gone, the BBC's gone, but VOA is still up .. you start wondering if something's wrong with the UK.

(For example. I'm not privy to anything the rest of us aren't. But it's clear that it's an item on a checklist that happens to have some novelty value, rather than being our "systema perimetr".)

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