Posts Tagged ‘The Guardian’
The Art Of Noise
If like me you’ve missed listening to the dulcet tones of Charlotte Green over on BBC Radio 4 there was a chance to hear her make a fleeting return in the first “audio intervention” last Monday as part of the short Open Air series - featuring a number of three minute pieces, or as they’d prefer “interventions”, from artists commissioned by […]
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Tags: Art, Artangel, BBC Radio 4, Charlotte Green, Christian Marclay, John O'Mahony, Mark Wallinger, Open Air, Open Air series, Peter Strickland, Ruth Ewan, Sound Art, Susan Hiller, The Guardian
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 Was Forty Years Ago Today
Well forty years ago today Mr Daniel Weir made his first appearance. According to The Guardian the main stories of that day included promises by Prime Minister Heath on action on “cars for haemophiliacs”, (no I don’t either), and concerns regarding the use of nudity in an advertising campaign advising people to wash regularly, (yes […]
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Tags: 40, Ask The Family, Norwich City FC, The Guardian, Z Cars
The Grasshopper Is King
Some days everything seems to connect. It started with a short piece by David Hepworth entitled “I envy the people who stay late at the beach” about remembering as a child “looking out of the window of hotel dining rooms and seeing a handful of kids still out there playing, the whole beach to themselves” […]
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Tags: David Hepworth, Joe Moran, Play, The Ant, The Grasshopper, The Guardian, Tom Meltzer
“Ice Flow, Nowhere To Go”
This time last year I ventured out into the Fens to visit the Straw Bear Festival in Whittlesey – it’s a tremendous event and I can’t recommend it enough. I was due to go again this morning (with a somewhat reluctant guest) but the given that the weather had moved from incessant snow to incessant […]
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Tags: Fens, Ice Skating, Straw Bear, The Guardian, Tom Cox, Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival
Still Interesting
Fabulous news ! I managed to secure a couple of tickets for Interesting 2009 earlier today – when the first batch of one hundred went on sale today. Interesting 2008 was one of the highlights of last year so I wouldn’t have missed the chance to get to this year’s event for the world. There […]
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Tags: Conway Hall, Interesting, Interesting2008, Interesting2009, Jim Le Fevre, The Guardian, zoetrope
