Category: Audio
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Club Class
I’m just beginning to catch up on the recent Radio 4 series – Club Class. The first of the latest series featured the Skulls and Bones – a secret society which invites just 15 new members a year, yet has both George W Bush and John Kerry as members. The really interesting thing about this…
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Cowboy Junkies on NPR
The Cowboy Junkies are touring again, and were on NPR the other day.
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HHGTTG
Hitchhikers is back! As many of the original cast as could be rounded up (well you can age far more gracefully on radio), and I love the clever way they handled the change of the Voice of the Book from the now deceased Peter Jones to William Franklyn. Fortunately, if you missed it today, it’s…
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Five Live Clip
The piece of audio that’s being passed around most in the radio industry today…
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V Festival 2004
It seems to have taken me the better part of a week to get over it, but it does take a lot out of me! Spent much of the weekend in the suprisingly dry, and indeed sunny, Hylands Park near Chelmsford, video and photographing my colleagues. Live performances in the tent saw highlight performances by…
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V Festival Tickets
I just need to let of some steam…. AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH Thanks. Sorry about that. For reasons that I can’t really go into, but mainly down to the fact that I volunteered to write a database, I seem to have been lumbered with overall responsibility for our company’s guest tickets to the V Festival in Chelmsford this…
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Pils, Patients & Profits
Another great BBC World Service documentary series is underway. Pils, Profits & Patients is available to listen to online, and examines the influence and behaviour of the pharmaceutical industry. Is what they do good for the world? “The pharmaceutical industry is the most profitable industry in the United States of America.” (Wouldn’t it be great…
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Channel 4 to Launch Digital Radio Station
Channel 4 are supposedly considering launching a digital radio station, that will be in “direct competition” with Radio 4. Umm, yeah, right. Running a radio station might not be such a bad idea, and the author of the piece is right in thinking that struggling Oneword would be the channel to morph into such a…
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Wynton Marsalis at the Proms
Another night, another Prom. I always enjoy the visits of Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (last seen 18 months ago at the Barbican), so I’d been looking forward to this Prom for a while. I showed up quite early, but not early enough it seemed. Instead of joining the Arena queue, I was…
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Prom No. 6
I must be getting addicted. It’s a few years since I last went to a Prom and now I’ve been twice in two days. Even on the day of rush hour tube chaos. OK, so I took the bus and listened to the conductor’s story of woe – Routemasters are being phased out this year,…
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The Proms
I paid my first visit to the Proms for a while today, seeing the BBC National Orchestra of Wales playing various pieces including Elgar’s Enigma Variations. I’d entirely forgotten that the opening variation, C.A.E. (which is actually a portrait of the composer’s wife) was lifted lock stock into the soundtrack of the first Matrix film.…
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How Many Miles to Basra?
Although it was broadcast on Radio 3 last Sunday, I’ve only just listened to How Many Miles to Basra? The play’s about what happens when a small group of British soldiers are out in the desert after hostilities have ceased, accompanied by a career-focused radio journalist. Obviously things happen to them, starting with the accidental…
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Analogue Radio Switch Off
The idea that analogue radio is going to be switched off any time soon is a complete joke. Kip Meek, from Ofcom is reported to have said that with analogue TV being switched off somewhere between 2010 and 2012, radio should follow suit soon thereafter. Not a hope. Firstly, if you think analogue TVs can…