Month: December 2008

  • Southbank

    Two a couple of great concerts in the Southbank Centre over the weekend. On Saturday it was John McCusker’s Under One Sky. McCusker has put together a fascinating group of performers of Scottish and English origin who together make some wonderful music. So on stage, alongside McCusker we had Julie Fowlis (who I saw a…

  • James Whale on Talksport Verdict

    Earlier this year, Talksport fired James Whale, their long-serving (and high rating) evening phone-in DJ after he made some comments which were seen to be in favour of Boris Johnson in the run-up to the London mayoral election. At the time, it was all a little unclear. Whale himself was vague in his accounts. Even…

  • Photographic Exhibitions

    Over on the BBC News website, they have an audio slideshow with Eamonn McCabe detailing what he’s found out in his Writer’s Room project. Over the last couple of years McCabe has been busily photographing the rooms in which novels are written. They’ve been published in the Guardian Review, and are now the subject of…

  • A Point of View

    You do listen to Clive James’ A Point of View don’t you? Go away and subscribe to the podcast immediately if you don’t!

  • DAB/WiFi/SD Card Followup

    A little while ago, I mentioned that I was seeking a DAB digital radio with recording facilities (ideally to SD card), and WiFi. You can buy a DAB/WiFi radio. And you can buy a DAB/SD radio. But you can’t buy one with all three. What a shame. But because new sets are always being designed,…

  • More or Less Returns

    More or Less has returned for a new run. Well worth subscribing to the podcast if you want to understand a little more how numbers really relate and their general misuse in the broader world. That probably doesn’t do a great deal to explain what the show’s about, but it’s well worth a listen –…

  • Little Dorrit Scheduling

    BBC One took an appalling decision this week. They cancelled an episode of Little Dorrit to show a “fast-turnaround” episode of Panorama. Thousands of viewers have rightly complained. Now I have no problem with current affairs programming taking precedence over drama, soaps or comedy, but there were two major problems this time around. 1. They’re…

  • Amazon’s MP3 Store

    So the long awaited Amazon MP3 store is finally here – with just days to go until the end of the year deadline. They’ve got quite a lot of music on it with a claimed 3.5m tracks on there at the moment (so they’ve been busy). Tracks are recorded as 256 kbps MP3 files –…