Strange News on the Radio

[rhythmaning]

I was sitting on the bus to work listening to Radio 3 on my walkman when the 8.30 am news headlines came. There is nothing strange about this; it happens every day (although, being Radio 3 sometimes a little early, sometimes a little late).

What was strange was that it was yesterday's news.

I would sware that they were the same headlines as yesterday:

• report published in Strasburg say EU governments probably knew about CIA "rendition" flights
  
• Gordon Brown supports Tony Blair's changes to the education policy
  
• Seventeen women with breast cancer were misdiagnosed
  

and so on.

It could be some kind of deja vu; or maybe it is just that by 8.30 I have heard the news so often that it just seems like yesterday's news (although that didn't happen yesterday).

Or maybe I am trapped in some kind of Groundhog Day reliving of my past.

So let's see what happens yesterday, then...

Comments

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Since when has R3 lived in real time? I love the Dead Ringers line:


"You're listening to Radio Three.............. Quiet, isn't it?"

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

I never know when I'm listening to R3 if it's the real thing, or if I've accidentally got dead ringers!

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

Jeez, of all the Groundhog Days to pick, you get yesterday? Pfft.

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

Hmm - I would have settled for last year's yesterday - that was a particularly good day, if I remember correctly!

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

A particularly good one for me too...

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

Oh? You can't just leave us hanging there ... :)

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

I'll think you'll find I can....

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

:P

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Could you have seen these headlines on the net yesterday night and then heard them again this morning?

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Definitely not off the 'net. And I've just checked on BBC news - they are all yesterday's stories.

Unless the BBC has a conspiracy to confuse me...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Cue "Trueman Show" music...

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

*g*

I was going to mention that maybe the newsreader just had the wrong sheet handed to him/her but that is too prosaic an explanation...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Alternatively, he may be living in a Philip K. Dick novel...

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I am sure you are right; it was just that no one noticed! I was listening out for an apology or something... Perhaps they think that no one actually listens to the news on Radio 3!