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  • The UK Radio Aid Question

    The earthquake that the people of Haiti experienced nearly a week ago now was horrific, and it’s wonderful that at time of writing the appeal launched by the Disasters Emergency Committee has reached over £23 million. Following the Asian tsunami on Boxing Day 2004, UK Radio Aid was a telethon of sorts that took place…

  • Ross Quits

    The big news today is that Jonathan Ross has quit his job at the BBC. Although he’ll be staying on for specials and on presentational duty at things like the BAFTAs and Comic Relief, he’ll be leaving his Friday Night Show, Film 2010 and Saturday morning Radio 2 show. Leaving aside the whys and wherefores…

  • Radio This Week

    There’s a few interesting things on TV just at the moment, but I’m going to concentrate on radio. All this week, Melvyn Bragg is celebrating the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary with four episodes of In Our Time. The first is already available to listen to as I type (and they’ll stay available, which is fabulous).…

  • My Christmas Radio 4

    I’ve put together more than a few annotated pages of the Radio Times in the past, and of course I have the new Christmas issue by my side at all times for the next fortnight. So I was pleased to see Steve Bowbrick at Radio 4 collecting together the highlights of some its presenters over…

  • How Many Listened?

    According to a story in Media Guardian, “an estimated 5 million” people tuned in to hear who would be the Christmas number one yesterday during the various chart shows. There are two main chart shows these days: the Radio 1 version which is considered the official chart, and the Big Top 40 chart which runs…

  • The Listener

    This is a very nice little video made by Radio 1 using photos of their listeners sent in the other day (via Brainpicker on Twitter)

  • Terry Wogan in the Radio Academy Hall of Fame

    This afternoon in London, Terry Wogan was inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame. This comes as Wogan gives up his breakfast show at the end of next week. The great and the good (and the rest of us) were out in force to pay their respects, and all in all it was actually…

  • 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…