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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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Science on Trial
If you’re quick, there’s still a chance to hear last week’s Radio 4 programme Science on Trial. With enormous topicality, it examined some of the very concerning legal cases that have been brought in British courts surrounding use of libel laws to restrict scientific debate, and effectively silence some of those who otherwise promote remedies…
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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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Why Don’t We Get The BAFTAs Live?
I know that the easy answers are that: 1. the show runs for at least three hours and viewers would get bored, or 2. we can’t trust celebrities not to swear and there’s a suspcision that 3. but then the after-parties wouldn’t start until post 11pm and that would be terrible. But as things stand…
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Mouse Path
My mouse trail from a morning at work. Generated using the fun Mouse Path software as linked to by the NY Times blog.
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BBC Mobile Apps
The big news eminating from the BBC today is that they’re finally getting around to releasing some mobile applications. That’s not entirely true: the BBC has previously released other applications, such as the iPlayer for various Nokia mobile phones. But notably, it hasn’t released any applications on the mobile daddy of them all – the…
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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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Vancouver A Sell Out?
According to the Vancouver organising committee, all 1.6m tickets for the Winter Olympics are expected to sell out. I’m always very suspicious of claims like that. Especially as I watched the USA v China Women’s Ice Hockey last night, and there were plenty of seats available. And I don’;t just mean a couple of no-shows…
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Radio Times 11 February 2010
Sorry – I only had a thick marker pen today. As ever, best viewed large.
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Premier League Commentary
A good night last night at Arsenal watching them beat Liverpool. And the other results were excellent too. So I’m really excited that today, Absolute Radio (my employer), has announced that it has won rights to live commentaries from a 3pm Premier League fixtures for three years from next season. Read more at the One…
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Newswipe on the Iraq Inquiry
I love Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe. It’s simply one of the best things on TV anywhere. Anyway – this week they covered the ongoing Iraq Inquiry, and in particular coverage of Blair’s appearance at the Inquiry. Except, the programme couldn’t show any of the the Inquiry. This is because television programmes can’t show clips of Parliamentary…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
Hadrian’s Wall
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