Radio 4 documentary about couriers

The programme was reviewed in the Guardian today. Apparently it is "hard not to like Will". I've always found it pretty easy but you can't argue with the voice of liberal Britain.

I think that makes you officially middle-class - Uni education, favourably reviewed by the Guardian!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/aug/19/radio.radio

Yesterday's radio featured two engrossing urban stories with very different moods. City Messengers (Radio 4), a beautifully produced documentary, glimpsed into the lives of cycle couriers. The toughness of the job was made clear ("most people quit in the first week") but the portrayal - a rich soundscape of music and traffic noise, plus intriguing slivers of interview - left you associating it with wanderlust and non-conformity. It was hard not to like Will, 43, who has been a courier since 1992. He doesn't mind when people are snooty about his job, seeing it as a "really quick way of sifting out that I'm not going to get along with [them]".

A working class hero is something to be

Watch out Will - remember this?

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

just been featured (twice) on pick of the week.

nice one guys.

Would really like to listen to this but I saw it too late and it's expired on iPlayer now. Don't suppose anyone has an mp3...?

http://rob.sh/files/bbcr4_city-messengers.mp3 - Enjoy.

That's what I call service! Much obliged, rjs.

thanks for the link, a good listen

No worries - just listened myself, and I must say, thoroughly enjoyed it.

cheers for the mp3 link, really enjoyed it.

Does anyone have an MP3 of the Still Pedalling follow-up? The BBC website no longer has it available.

I really enjoyed listening to that. I think I should listen to more documentaries on the radio. I don't really know a great deal about couriers, but it gave me a little insight into it. I don't know that I'd be cut out for it though!

im not sure if this is the same documentry i listened to on iplayer. the one i listened to was a bunch of people moaning about how slow buissness was. me and my friends dont talk about our work togather becuase its fucking boring, so why do i want to listen to a bunch of strangers who deliver packages.

Thanks for posting Rjs . .

im not sure if this is the same documentry i listened to on iplayer. the one i listened to was a bunch of people moaning about how slow buissness was. me and my friends dont talk about our work togather becuase its fucking boring, so why do i want to listen to a bunch of strangers who deliver packages.

Strangers are just friends you haven't met yet.

im not sure if this is the same documentry i listened to on iplayer. the one i listened to was a bunch of people moaning about how slow buissness was. me and my friends dont talk about our work togather becuase its fucking boring, so why do i want to listen to a bunch of strangers who deliver packages.

One of the reasons why lots of people on here liked the programme (in another thread where we talked about it), is that at least two of the interviewees in it sometimes post on this forum and are well liked due to their personable natures.

im not sure if this is the same documentry i listened to on iplayer. the one i listened to was a bunch of people moaning about how slow buissness was. me and my friends dont talk about our work togather becuase its fucking boring, so why do i want to listen to a bunch of strangers who deliver packages.

You and your friends can't fucking spell.Also,you dont talk about work"togather"yet you'll listen to others talking about it.Marvelous.

Strangers are just friends you haven't met yet.

I think he may be the exception to the rule

One of the reasons why lots of people on here liked the programme (in another thread where we talked about it), is that at least two of the interviewees in it sometimes (!) post on this forum and are well liked due to their personable natures.

and you can fuck off too.

Well Nhatt doesn't pop up here much

And you should be working.

im not sure if this is the same documentry i listened to on iplayer. the one i listened to was a bunch of people moaning and groaning in ecstacy. Me and my friend dont talk to each other becuase we're fucking boring, so why do i want to listen to a bunch of people with social lives who deliver witty rejoinders>.

fixed

Ha!

melon = comic genius.

Radio 4 should sign him and his friends up.

melon = comic genius.

Radio 4 should sign him and his friends up.

Don't you think the BBC is in enough trouble already without handing out contracts to imaginary people?