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  • Spotify Making Money?

    Yesterday’s Observer had an interesting piece on Spotify that included a little more substance about whether or not Spotify is making money. I tried to find out as much as I could about Spotify ahead of Radio at the Edge a few weeks ago, and put everything I determine into a short video. As I…

  • The Great Monkey Trial of Tennessee

    The Saturday Play on Radio 4 this week was The Great Monkey Trial of Tennessee (available until this coming Saturday on the iPlayer), which tells the story of the Scopes Trial. It’s a good listen and well worth catching. What I can’t quite work out is the play’s all-star provenance. The credit is BBC Wales,…

  • Some Random Things

    It’s Up For Grabs Now is a very good new podcast about Arsenal presented by Alan Davies and some of his mates. There are four episodes so far, and they’re all excellent including yesterday’s which deals with Thierry Henry and Ireland, the Sunderland game at the weekend, and even Spurs. The podcast comes from a…

  • Five Live

    On Monday there was a Radio Academy event in London with Matt Wells asking the questions of BBC Radio Five Live’s controller, Adrian van Klaveren. The obvious area for questioning surrounded Five Live’s forthcoming move to a new facility in Salford. As someone who listens to an awful lot of Five Live, I’m still unconvinced,…

  • A Quick Recommendation

    Before I forget, and before it expires on the BBC iPlayer, you must listen to last Saturday’s Archive on 4 – Radio Hollywood. Between the mid-thirties and early-fifties, the Lux Radio Theater broadcast one hour radio adaptations of popular films of the day, employing either the original stars, or other movies stars. We heard lots…

  • Digital Listening – Revealed!

    Here’s an interesting point. With each quarter’s RAJAR releases comes a report that details how stations’ listening is broken down by platforms. It’s this report that tells us that 21.1% of all listening on All Radio is digital, and that for all BBC Radio it’s 21.6% while for all Commercial Radio it’s 20.2%. And, because…

  • The Tardis at No. 1 Golden Square

  • Radio at the Edge – Factoid Videos

    Yesterday I was at the excellent Radio at the Edge conference 2009 (my notes are here). My major contribution to the conference was a series of “factoid” videos introducing different sessions. If you were there and the statistics flashed by too fast, then I’ve put them on YouTube. My “ecelctic” music choices also saw some…

  • Radio at the Edge 2009

    [Update: Over at the Onegoldensquare blog, I’ve written a less detailed summary which might be easier to read] [Update 2: The Radio Academy has now published all the video and audio from Monday on their website. Also included are the various presentations given at the event!] Live(ish) from London’s MIllbank – it’s not exactly like…

  • Radio Radio

    I’ve been listening to a few fascinating bits of radio recently, most of which are no longer listenable and may never be in quite the form I heard them, but are largely available to hear in one format or another right now. First up has got to be a short fifteen minute programme called Runaway…

  • RAJAR Q3 2009

    Today sees publication of the latest RAJAR figures and there are a few things that are food for thought. FIrst of all, it wasn’t the greatest RAJAR for commercial radio which slipped back a little against a strong BBC which saw increases in share for all its national analogue networks with the exception of Radio…

  • Compare My Radio

    I was in Sweden recently, presenting at Radio Days 2009, and letting a Swedish audience know what we’d been doing in the last 12 months as we morphed from Virgin Radio to Absolute Radio. One of the things I noted was that Absolute Radio publishes its playlist online, and includes the number of plays the…

  • The Permanent Way

    After I recently saw The Power of Yes, it became apparent that this was not the first production that David Hare had produced in this way. In 2004, there was The Permanent Way, a National Theatre/Out of Joint co-production that carried out a similar dramatised investigation into the state of British railways following privatisation and…