Category: Audio
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6 Music Saved
Well – “the case has not been made” for closing it down. So reads one of the lines of the BBC Trust’s Interim conclusions. In other words, 6 Music has been saved. On Twitter, the excitement is already palpable. Now though, the station faces the future. How many of its newly found audience will stay…
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2001: A Space Odyssey – Live at the Royal Festival Hall and the See Further Festival
2010 is the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. We’ve had a special series of In Our Time earlier in the year, the president of the Society, Martin Rees has given the Reith Lectures, and there’ve been numerous talks and lectures. Over the weekend, the Royal Society’s annual summer exhibition moved to the Southbank Centre…
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BBC Tennis
You’re a news and sport radio station. It’s reached the stage in the World Cup where final group games take place simultaneously and you’ve promised listeners that you’ll cover all the matches. It’s Wimbledon fortnight and Andy Murray has his opening match. There’s an emergency Budget taking place in the Commons. [UPDATE] And an England…
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Radio Drama
I really like radio drama, although I’ll freely admit that I don’t get to hear enough of it. So the piece in today’s Guardian made for interesting reading. It highlights the fact that Radio 4 is losing the Friday Play, and the strain in general that radio drama finds itself under. What can radio drama…
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To Watch and Listen To Between the Football
A few things that caught my eye this week: By far the best World Cup package surrounding the games must have been the package that aired after the Italy v Paraguay game. It was all about the footballers of Robben Island. While they were locked up by the apartheid regime, football was one of the…
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Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra
I’m beginning to lose count of the number of times I’ve seen Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra playing their big band jazz, but it doesn’t really matter, as it’s a joy to see them every single time they’re in the country. This time around it’s an especially good treat as…
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Not Completely My Own Composition
Over the weekend I read a really good piece in the new issue of Word magazine written by Eamonn Forde that detailed some of the more famed musical “squabbles” when it’s discovered that an artist has “ripped off” another artist, usually by sampling them without permission. The most recent example mentioned in the piece was…
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The Spawn of Satan
Sorry. I’m going to return to an evil that I’ve talked about before. What bedevilment do I mean? Why – the standard “ear buds” that come with Apple’s products. Look – I know I can sometimes moan about Apple. They have their closed systems, their sometimes bloated software (iTunes – I’m looking at you), and…
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Absolute 80s Goes National on D1
Good news if you’re a fan on 80s music – Absolute 80s, which only launched in London at the end of 2009 – is going national from 10am this morning on digital radio. If you can hear stations on the D1 multiplex (i.e. Absolute Radio, Talksport, Classic FM etc), then you should be able to…
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RAJAR Q1 2010
In an experimental change, RAJAR brought forward the release time of this quarter’s RAJAR to midnight tonight. But I’ve been out, so I’m an hour or so later than Matt’s sterling summary of RAJAR which is pretty comprehensive. There are two big stories that are going to get all the coverage in the papers later…
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A Bit of the Dawn Chorus After and During the Rain
It was pretty wet last night in London, so I recorded this: Listen!
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And Something A Little Older
Chris Morris on the launch of Virgin 1215 from back in 1993. I’m looking forward to see Morris’ new film Four Lions next week.
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Station Cross Promotion
Richard Bacon hosted an Election Special on 6 Music on Friday discussing how each party might approach the music industry. John Wittingdale was on the programme for the Conservatives, and while I wouldn’t suggest that what he said on the programme would affect my vote, I did enjoy this bit: