Category: Radio

Radio 4 are currently serialising the latest Redmond O’Hanlon book, Trawler, as book of the week. I must admit that I haven’t read a great many of his books since I read Into The Heart of Borneo first in Granta, and then in paperback back in the eighties. Actually I did read the follow-up, In…

Well it seems that The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy really is returning to radio! Of course there’s still no BBC Press Release in the radio section, but given the enormous detail (including the fact that some of the stories won’t appear until this time next year!), I’m rather inclined to believe it. In fact…

Good to hear that Gerald Kaufman’s having a go at Radio 3 now. OK – he’s not alone in his attacks, with plenty of others complaining about the inclusion of non-classical music, and easy-listening like, er, Gershwin. I think the real objection seems to be that Late Junction and Andy Kershaw both pop-up on the…

According to this article on Mediaguardian, Hitchhikers is returning next year, with an adaptation of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I suppose the big question is, who writes the scripts, and who are they going to cast. I must admit that I’d like to read a bit more from an official source,…

I’m happily asleep this morning when the phone rings. I look at the clock and see that it’s 7.34, which means I’m late. Who’s phoning me at 7.34? Alex from the Danny Baker Show that’s who. I’m suddenly aware that my radio is set to Radio 3 since that’s what I put it on to…

I haven’t listened to an awful lot of LBC 97.3 FM since it relaunched and switched frequencies with it’s AM rolling news sister station. One show that does warrant listening to is Brian Hayes and Matt Wells Sunday afternoon media show. Two hours between 1.00 and 3.00pm every week – it’s pretty thorough in its…