I listen to radio dramas to get to sleep.  It started  when I worked in Austin.  Rooms there were cheaper than apartments and people didn’t run credit checks.    If I didn’t want to bother my house-mates so I had to use  headphones.  I couldn’t find headphones comfortable enough to sleep in and long enough to get to the TV so  I found radio shows over the internet.

I used to listen to old American detective dramas.  I something that had a time limit so the sound wouldn’t go on all night.  This led me to the BBC.  They have 8 different bands. BBC 4 and BBC 7 had the dramas and comedies.  BBC 7 is now BBC 4 Extra.

BBC4x has a scifi/terror hour at noon and midnight. (6 AM and 6 PM my time)  The rest of the night is filled with crime dramas like Lord Peter Wimsey and Paul Temple.  This month they are serializing Charles Dickens novels.  I don’t listen to them because they are long and depressing.

I’m not as up on my Dickens as I thought.  I started to listen to The Old Curiosity Shop Tuesday because I thought it was a short story.  I listened almost the full hour and at the end I discovered that it was just starting a bunch of depressing plot lines.