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  • 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…

  • One More Radio Drama

    Here’s something that links the last two entries on this blog. Following The Power of Yes yesterday, and the radio I was mentioning, I caught up with something else from the BBC World Service that I’d not previously listened to. The Day That Lehman Died details events in the US over the weekend when the…

  • Some Recent Radio (and TV)

    Apologies in advance – just about everything I’m going to mention here is now beyond the iPlayer’s Listen Again window. The BBC World Service has just finished another Worldplay series, this time based on the subject of science. The last piece was called Moving Bodies by Arthur Giron and starred Alfred Molina. It was actually…

  • Dabbl

    Allow me, if you will, a work related post. A few minutes ago saw the launch of dabbl, a new radio station from Absolute Radio. It’s an exciting new station that lets listeners choose the music. And for the record, because these things are important to know, the first track played was Bon Jovi and…

  • Stephen Fry on DAB in Just A Minute

    The BBC has launched a series of neat animations promoting Just A Minute. It’s curious, though, that they chose this particular excerpt from Stephen Fry on DAB… Nicely done, nonetheless. (Actually, we do need to face up to reception issues, and improve coverage strength so that these issues go away). As ever, these are my…

  • Pure Sensia

    Today I went along to the launch of a very interesting new radio, the Pure Sensia. It’s a DAB radio, FM radio, internet radio and media player rolled into one. But it also, interestingly allows you to use apps. And as we all know, there’s nothing more exciting than apps in 2009. I’ve got to…

  • Two Unmissable Things

    Here are two separate programmes that you simply must watch and listen to… for entirely different reasons. First off, there’s my current favourite radio feature on any programme anywhere at the moment. Yes, it’s an Absolute Radio show and I work there, and yes, I know all the people who make it. But honestly irrespective…