Posts Tagged ‘BBC’
Pigs In Space
I have to admit I don’t listen to a great deal on BBC Radio 3 however the little I do catch is usually very good indeed. One programme I try and keep up with is the excellent Between the Ears, which styles itself rather vaguely as “innovative and thought-provoking features on a wide variety of […]
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Tags: BBC, BBC Radio, BBc Radio 3, Between The Ears, Caroline Devine, International Space Station, Radio Ham, Sound Artist
Cowards As Well As Mediocrities
Some time ago the BBC announced that they had decided to name a wing of Broadcasting House after John Peel. His erstwhile colleague at Radio 1, Andy Kershaw, responded thus : “This is breathtaking hypocrisy and self-serving bogus sentimentality. It is also, to some extent, guilt-driven. Radio 1 was marginalising John just before his death. […]
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Tags: BBC, BBC Radio, Danny Baker, John Peel
A few weeks ago I wrote about my love of radio. Then whilst slowly dragging through the rush hour traffic in Newcastle recently we switched on BBC Radio 4 to hear Mr Geoffrey Harris. Mr Harris had responded to the PM programme’s suggestion that the 29th February could be a day on which to do […]
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Tags: BBC, BBC Radio 4, Eddie Mair, Geoffrey Harris, PM, Radio
Radio Radio
Today is World Radio Day - and I love radio. According to the slightly underwhelming official website “World Radio Day seeks to raise awareness about the importance of radio, facilitate access to information through radio and enhance networking among broadcasters.” So given that I’m unlikely to enhance much networking or facilitate any significant access I suppose […]
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Tags: Alan Dein, BBC, BBC Radio 4, Betty Driver, Danny Baker, David Hendy, Desert Island Discs, Don't Hang Up, Don't Log Off, Elizabeth Mahoney, Future Radio, In The Dark, John Osborne, John Peel, John Peel's Shed, Judith Kerr, Kathy Burke, Nina Myskow, Radio Head: Up and Down the Dial of British Radio, The Guardian, World Radio Day
It seems to have been a long week. I blame my increasing inability to survive on post British Summer Time sunlight levels which is disappointing and I fear something I’m unlikely to alter on my own. So highlights have been few and far between, however a trip with work to London on Wednesday resulted in an unscheduled audience with the BBC Symphony […]
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Tags: BBC, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, St Pancras International, Symphony
Educate, Inform, Entertain
Not sure what to make of Mark Thompson but the fact that he visited Downing Street yesterday carrying an (on view) internal email from “Helen Boaden, the BBC News director, saying that she had had lunch with Andy Coulson, the coalition government’s director of communications, at which he had expressed concern “that we give context […]
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Tags: Andy Coulson, BBC, Mark Thompson
“the BBC is like a bus”
I love the BBC but am constantly disappointed that so few people seem get the point of it. So maximum points must go to Phill Jupitus for his interview in the Media Guardian yesterday as he not only seems to understand the BBC very well indeed but can also explain it much better than I […]
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Tags: BBC, Good Morning Nantwich, Phill Jupitus
Design For Life
Caught some of the latest episode of the BBC’s The Genius of Design which reminded me how much I adore (yes adore) the work of Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert. Much of what was featured had already appeared in the excellent BBC4 series on Motorways (including Margaret recounting travelling the length of an empty M1 […]
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Tags: BBC, iPlayer, Jock Kinneir, M1, Margaret Calverts, The Genius of Design
The Delian Mode
I managed to miss blogging on Ada Lovelace day for a variety of reasons, however I did have the best intentions and had planned (at least in my head) to write about Delia Derbyshire – a name I hope means something to you, if not it shortly will. Delia Derbyshire was born in England in […]
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Tags: Ada Lovelace, Ada Lovelace Day, BBC, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Blue Veils And Golden Sands, Delia Derbyshire, Doctor Who, E.A.R., Experimental Audio Research, John Peel, Magoo, Peter Kember, Ron Grainer, Sculptress Of Sound, Sonic Boom, The Alchemists Of Sound, The Delian Mode
Happy Birthday Maida Vale
Earlier today I was alerted by the fine people of Twitter to the fact that today is the 75th anniversary of the BBC’s famous Maida Vale Studios, a place very dear to my heart. Those of you who know me will know that I’ve been ‘involved’ with the band Magoo for more years than I […]
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