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We're off on Friday, & taking my Janet & John cd - read by Terry Wogan. Its hilarious. 
What other listening material do you recommend?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Apparently, Harry Potter audio can be entertaining.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Loaded up ipod with most of CD collection and stuck it on shuffle
For the kids ahve a few childrens books
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We've used various long books. The HPs are good, and Lord of the Rings; it seems to go on for ever.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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geri, we have a couple of CD's of I'm sorry I haven't a clue,which always inspires us to play a round or two ourselves. Terry Pratchett kids books are good too.
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I-spy should get you about 10 miles.
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Badiel and Skinner's worldcup podcast (if you haven't heard it). Ditto Harry Potter.
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Someone put Lord of The Rings on Audiobook  I found it hard going reading it to myself....let alone out loud!!
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Elizabeth B, I've got the BBC radio series , but not an audio book.
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Would a few Chubby Brown tapes be a bit to unpolitically correct?? 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Listen to Radio 4 on long wave, and place bets on how far south you get before the reception becomes intolerable.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Download TOGcasts, and listen to them on the journey.
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We bought a set of DVD screens for the kids from Argos before the summer holiday this year - around £100 - after a 10 hr journey back from Anglesey with a 6yr old and a 4yr old in the worst Midlands traffic I've ever seen it qualifies as the best flipping £100 I've ever invested - that and a collection of kids DVD's amassed over the years. I also pack for the kids, 2 colouring books, colouring crayon sticks from Crayola - they're called 'twistables' and are the best kids colouring things I've ever seen - they are around £2.50 for 10 different colours, but I've now had a couple of sets for 2+yrs and they are all still present and correct - still working and the plastic pack still hasn't disintegrated - remarkable for kids colouring stuff - I've found you can reliably buy them from Morrisons Garages if anyone is interested in a pack. Then I raid the local bazaars through the year and find a supply of 'cheap as chips' books that they have never seen before and pack couple of toy cars and soft toys. I put the whole lot x2 in a bag between them on the back seat, and also travel through the night so they sleep as well. We have DH's MP3 player through the tape player in the car loaded to the gunnels with assorted stuff, but largely I map read - DH can't be trusted!! Last year I spent 5 minutes sorting out the kids in the back seat at a point on the French motorway where we need to do about 200+ miles before turning off and in that time he manages to take an exit onto a different road where we had to go 80 miles!! in the wrong direction before we found the first turnoff to be able to turn around and go back.
Lots of people here have mentioned audio books etc. Personally I can't get excited about audio stories, or talking/talk shows on the radio - I think radio's etc. are for music!!
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You know it makes sense.
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Megamum, I start to long for the radio to be able to pick up Radio 4 again one the journey home. We listen to a lot of radio at home, and it's either Radio 4 or planet rock, (DAB) although I do find it bizarre listening to the Alice Cooper breakfast show.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Helen Beaumont wrote: |
| geri, we have a couple of CD's of I'm sorry I haven't a clue,which always inspires us to play a round or two ourselves. Terry Pratchett kids books are good too. |
They sound good! I quite like listening to stuff as I get a bit carsick reading.
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Poster: A snowHead
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geri, I can't read either, hubby likes doing the crossword, but I can't even read out the clues. Not carsick unless I read.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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40GB...Ipod
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Memorial Enfant d'lizeu
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I was intrigued, but Google can't find this - even if I leave out the word Memorial? Que? S'il vous plait?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'm definately with the radio for speech camp. Harry Potter has always been a winner with the children - even more than DVD player (because we can all listen) We have CD' s of Just a Minute, Navy Lark Clitheroe and other old time radio. But how can we record Radio 7 onto CD or the computer in mp3 format so it could be copied onto TOM TOM 910?
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Helen Beaumont, totally agree. One of the very few things I miss here is the ability to have Radio 4 on in the car
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If you've never listened to the Ricky Gervais/Steve Merchant/Karl Pilkington podcasts you should give them a go.
In fact I might just dig them out and listen to them again during my transfer to Val d'Isère on Sunday.
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Stock the ipod up with the last couple of "rumour mills" or "fighting talk" which is good for a couple of hours for adult sports fans..
last year with the sister's family we listend to Storm Breaker featuring alex rider.. which was great in a 'kid's books on tape' kind of way.
A couple of years ago I bought a CDplayer that can play MP3 encoded tracks...whammed on 250 of them and drove all the way from Calais to milan without changing disks...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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"I'm Going to the Moon" is always fun.
Pick a topic (let's say food, for an example).
The first players starts by saying 'I'm going to the moon and I'm taking ... apples'
Next person says 'I'm going to the moon and I'm taking ... apples and bananas'
Continue through the alphabet, each time having to repeat each object.
Obviously the degree of difficulty and amusement varies depending on what topic you pick.
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