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  • Radio 4’s Science Fiction Season

    Radio 4 has a new Science Fiction season, and the TV trailer is wonderfully creepy: (Actually, I think it’s already been edited a little since this version was launched. Or maybe they have a pre-watershed version.)

  • Juvenile Behaviour on the Radio

    If you’ve never taken part in a phone-in on the radio, you might be surprised how easy it is to get through if you’ve got something interesting to say. Listen to “Tony” speaking to Five Live’s Victoria Derbyshire on Monday: And on Sunday night, “Pavinder” called Eddie Nestor on BBC London: If you happened to…

  • Ben Goldacre and LBC

    This is interesting to watch, and perhaps shows how if you’re not careful, things will run away from you. Ben Goldacre, the writer of The Guardian’s Bad Science column and author of the very excellent Bad Science book, wrote about a programme broadcast by LBC presented by Jenni Barnett. I’ll say up front that I…

  • Radio On The TV

    The new issue of Private Eye’s Ad Nauseum column highlights the recent BBC 6 Music TV ad which you may have seen, featuring Vampire Weekend on the soundtrack. (Also available here) It points out, as the person who uploaded the above version of the ad, that ad agency Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R were probably, um,…

  • RAJAR and All Things Digital

    Everything happens at once. Yesterday, saw the publication of Q4 2008’s RAJAR results, and the eagerly awaited Digital Britain report. They’re not really related, but I should probably say something about both. From close to home, my employer, Absolute Radio, published its first results, and they clearly don’t make for comfortable reading. The numbers show…

  • Visual Radio 1

    BBC Radio 1 is running a week long trial of a beta visualisation version of the radio player for a couple of programmes this week. I only caught a few minutes of Moyles this morning, but it seemed to work very well, and was a very interesting experiment in what can and can’t be done.…

  • Crash

    It’s always wise to pull over before you use the phone – especially when you call a radio station. Unhappily for her, Fiona didn’t half an hour ago when calling the Geoff Hometime Show…

  • Media Talk on The Guardian

    Matt Wells had something of a moan this week about what he called an advert for DAB that he’d heard on the BBC this week. He saw it as a straight ad for BBC viewers and listeners to go out and buy a DAB digital radio. A couple of things Matt: The BBC did exactly…

  • James Whale on Talksport Verdict

    Earlier this year, Talksport fired James Whale, their long-serving (and high rating) evening phone-in DJ after he made some comments which were seen to be in favour of Boris Johnson in the run-up to the London mayoral election. At the time, it was all a little unclear. Whale himself was vague in his accounts. Even…

  • A Point of View

    You do listen to Clive James’ A Point of View don’t you? Go away and subscribe to the podcast immediately if you don’t!

  • DAB/WiFi/SD Card Followup

    A little while ago, I mentioned that I was seeking a DAB digital radio with recording facilities (ideally to SD card), and WiFi. You can buy a DAB/WiFi radio. And you can buy a DAB/SD radio. But you can’t buy one with all three. What a shame. But because new sets are always being designed,…

  • More or Less Returns

    More or Less has returned for a new run. Well worth subscribing to the podcast if you want to understand a little more how numbers really relate and their general misuse in the broader world. That probably doesn’t do a great deal to explain what the show’s about, but it’s well worth a listen –…

  • Radio 2 Audiences and The Age of Listening

    Here’s an interesting question related to the Ross/Brand affair. Yes, I know I said I was bored of the whole thing, but this is genuinely interesting. Did Russell Brand actually cost Radio 2 listeners when he was on-air with them? (Or perhaps more reasonably, did he cost them listening hours, when regular Radio 2 listeners…