Category: Audio
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6 Music Campaign
I’ve not been into Fopp for ages so it was very interesting to see their default till message.
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The Art of Re-Mastering
I listened to this on the way into work this morning, and it’s a great little documentary about the art of re-mastering. Mohr-Pietsch talks to a number of different people who’ve been through the re-mastering process, and talks about the pros, and perhaps not so much, the cons. This is one of those instances where…
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Charlotte Street During Rush Hour
Listen!
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River Sounding
I visited River Sounding over the weekend – the audio/video exhibition by Bill Fontana at Somerset House. He’s recorded audio and shot video along the full length of the Thames and then used it in an installation placed in the Lightwells and Dead House beneath Somerset House’s courtyard. There are lots of little rooms and…
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Breakfast Show TV Ads
At the weekend I was idly watching some television with the netbook on my lap (something that happens a bit too much) when out of the corner of my eye I noticed Johnny and Lisa on a TV ad. I looked up, keen to see what the new Capital Radio TV ad would look like.…
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Sony Radio Academy Awards
Wow! Look – allow me a little leeway as I get quite excited about something that is completely related to where I work. But Absolute Radio has just received an outstanding 12 Sony Radio Academy Award nominations this evening – 11 of which are for our main service, while the other is for Absolute Radio…
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What I’ve Been Listening To (And Watching)
There’s only one episode of Party to go, but listen in to part three before Wednesday. I’ll always listen or watch any programme based on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and this week that meant listening to Archive on 4: Sculptress of Sound – The Lost World of Delia Derbyshire. In some respects it’s always Derbyshire…
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BBC Mobile Apps On Hold
Today comes news that the BBC has had to delay its mobile phone applications until the BBC Trust has taken a close look at what it’s doing. That obviously includes iPhone apps, but other operating systems are available, and the BBC was developing for them too. The announcement that the BBC was developing applications came…
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Party & Geoengineering
A couple of quick recommendations. You’ve only got a day left to listen to part 1 of Party, adapted by Tom Basden from his own play which has only just finished a run in the West End following its debut in last year’s Edinburgh Festival. A group of middle class – and not especially bright…
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Vincent Price and The Horror of The English Blood Beast
Here’s a turn up for the books – me talking about something on the radio that you have more than one day to listen to! Vincent Price and The Horror of The English Blood Beast is an excellent play based around the making of Witchfinder General in 1967. If you’ve never seen Witchfinder General, then…
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Jonny Greenwood – Doghouse
(This photo has nothing to do with the concert, but I took it down the road from the BBC’s Maida Vale studios). I’d never been to the BBC’s Maida Vale studios. But this evening I was off to them to see the BBC Concert Orchestra playing the world premiere of Jonny Greenwood’s new piece as…
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Social Media and 6 Music
What’s been most interesting so far, following the news that the BBC might be shutting down, has been the reaction in the “Twittersphere” and online in general. There were lots of callers on Victoria Derbyshire’s programme this morning, with Martin Kelner and John Myers also making appearances (there’s feedback throughout, but Kelner and Myers are…
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Murder in Samarkind
Again, I’m going to recommend something that’s just about to drop off the iPlayer. But if you have 90 minutes free before tomorrow afternoon, you could do a great deal worse than listen to David Hare’s terrific adaptation of Craig Murray’s memoir. Murray, you will recall, was “our man in Tashkent” – British Ambassador to…