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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,…
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Radio Times 24 November 2009
As of ten minutes ago, I’m not staying in tonight, but off to the O2 to see Murray v Federer this evening in the ATP World Tour Finals . But before I knew that, I was busy deciding what to watch on TV this evening – apart from the aforementioned tennis, or Arsenal v Standard…
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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…
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You See – This Is Why I Hate The Word “Content”
What is this supposed to mean? Everything’s “Content“…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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2012
Look – it’s my own fault. I should have gone to see An Education instead. But somehow, even though I knew in advance it’d be garbage, actors like John Cusack and Thandie Newton drew me in. And I went and saw 2012. I’ll try to atone next week when the new Coen brothers film comes…
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The Tardis at No. 1 Golden Square
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Breaking The Code
Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitmore dates from 1986, but I’d only previously seen the 1996 TV adaptation starring Derek Jacobi which was very good. So when I learnt the other week that there was a new production in London I thought I should go and see it, as Alan Turing is a fascinating man…
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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…
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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…
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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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