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The Podcasting Challenge
Last month, the BBC announced that it had delivered its billionth podcast since it first started delivering downloads in 2007. Closer to home, Absolute Radio continues to deliver exceptional numbers of podcast, with programmes like
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Photo
As much as anything, this photo is purely to test out an upgrade of my blogging software. So move along. Nothing much to see here.
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Ridding Social Media of Pointlessness in 2012
In the last few days, we’ve seen a couple of storms in teacups. There was the BBC’s “Faces of 2011 – the women” (or “pandagate”), and then yet another Jeremy Clarkson faux pas. In the former, widely picked up on by social networks like Twitter and Facebook, and quickly followed up on by newspapers, we…
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Radio Times – 25 December 2011
It’s Christmas! I hope you’re having a happy one. One thing I suspect that you might be doing is watching some TV today. So – if you haven’t been given too many comedy DVDs or boxsets that you want to tuck into straight away – what do the main channels hold in store? As ever,…
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Book Sculptures
In Cambridge at the Cambrige University Press bookshop, there’s an amazing 12 Days of Christmas window display. An artist named Justin Rowe has fashioned these, and they’re amazing. They’re all winnable in a charity raffle, but I went in and while I was tempted by How to Fold It: The Mathematics of Linkages, Origami and…
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Absolute Radio 60s is On Air!
Go away and have a listen. Or find it on RadioPlayer. During the pre-launch period, the station made a little bit of press because it banned Cliff Richard from the station. I’ll stay out of the argument about the rights and wrongs of this, except to point out that Absolute Radio 60s is trying to…
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James Burke
If you’re old enough, you might know who James Burke is. He was the presenter of a TV series that had an enormous impact on me as a child – Connections. First broadcast in 1978, I think my viewings came in later repeats – especially (if my memory serves me) during school holidays when the…
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Tour Du Danger
On Saturday, around 300 cyclists took part in the Tour Du Danger, a cycle tour of London’s most dangerous junctions. This came less than 24 hours after a second cyclist had been killed at a junction in Bow which forms part of the Cycling Superhighway to the Olympic site. This was a protest at the…
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Alison Krauss & Union Station
I do love hearing Alison Krauss. Last time I saw her, she was touring with Robert Plant and was playing in Wembley Arena. The Royal Festival Hall is a much nicer venue, and she was accompanied by Union Station, her band of some twenty years featuring Dan Tyminski who shares vocal duties. This concert was…
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Photos in London
The Photographer’s Gallery might still be closed, but there are loads of excellent exhibitions of photos in London at the moment, and I’m struggling to keep up! At the National Portrait Gallery they’ve just opened the annual Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize exhibition. It’s only a couple of quid to get in, and it’s well worth…
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Remember Remember the Fifth of November
I had to pick up a V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes mask in Forbidden Planet earlier today…
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Radio Festival 2011 Report: Part Three – Festival Day Two
This is a continuation of my report of this year’s Radio Festival. Part one summarising TechCon can be found here, and part two summarising day one of the main festival can be found here. The final day of the Radio Festival began with Jarvis Cocker who was in conversation with Arthur Smith. Cocker was there…
Podcasts, Radio, TV, Books, Cycling, Photography and More
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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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