Category: Radio
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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…
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BBC Closing Radio Services?
Friday’s Times is reporting that BBC 6Music and the Asian Network are to be closed under the BBC’s major strategic review. As well as this, there’s likely to be cuts to other expenditure particularly on the web as well as cuts to imported programming, BBC Blast, BBC Switch, and sports expenditure. If this proves to…
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Amy MacDonald
Amy MacDonald played a set in London’s Hard Rock Café for Absolute Radio earlier this evening. The set, promoting a new album, was great and should be going out on-air next Monday. In the meantime, even though I wasn’t right at the front, I’m pretty happy with some of the photos I took. As well…
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What’s The Truth Behind Digital Radio Figures?
The dust has settled a little bit on the last RAJAR figures were released. But there were a number of stories surrounding RAJAR much like this one, highlighting the fact that the overall level of digital listening fell from 21.1% in Q3 2009 to 20.9% in Q4 2009. That 0.2% drop was clearly disappointing, but…
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RAJAR Day
Most of my thoughts on RAJAR today are published on the One Golden Square blog. So I won’t bother repeating them here. I needed a photo to illustrate RAJAR on the blog, so I took the one above. Although RAJAR’s mostly electronic these days, printing a copy of the summary PDF is still useful. But…
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Breaking Up Your Podcasts
What’s the best length for a podcast? That’s a bit like asking, “How long is a piece of string?” The recent RAJAR MIDAS data showed a wide range of opinions: What this shows is that there’s no consensus. I listen to podcasts that can vary between a couple of minutes and nearly two hours. So…