Month: February 2010

  • Jonny Greenwood – Doghouse

    (This photo has nothing to do with the concert, but I took it down the road from the BBC’s Maida Vale studios). I’d never been to the BBC’s Maida Vale studios. But this evening I was off to them to see the BBC Concert Orchestra playing the world premiere of Jonny Greenwood’s new piece as…

  • Social Media and 6 Music

    What’s been most interesting so far, following the news that the BBC might be shutting down, has been the reaction in the “Twittersphere” and online in general. There were lots of callers on Victoria Derbyshire’s programme this morning, with Martin Kelner and John Myers also making appearances (there’s feedback throughout, but Kelner and Myers are…

  • Murder in Samarkind

    Again, I’m going to recommend something that’s just about to drop off the iPlayer. But if you have 90 minutes free before tomorrow afternoon, you could do a great deal worse than listen to David Hare’s terrific adaptation of Craig Murray’s memoir. Murray, you will recall, was “our man in Tashkent” – British Ambassador to…

  • BBC Closing Radio Services?

    Friday’s Times is reporting that BBC 6Music and the Asian Network are to be closed under the BBC’s major strategic review. As well as this, there’s likely to be cuts to other expenditure particularly on the web as well as cuts to imported programming, BBC Blast, BBC Switch, and sports expenditure. If this proves to…

  • Science on Trial

    If you’re quick, there’s still a chance to hear last week’s Radio 4 programme Science on Trial. With enormous topicality, it examined some of the very concerning legal cases that have been brought in British courts surrounding use of libel laws to restrict scientific debate, and effectively silence some of those who otherwise promote remedies…

  • Amy MacDonald

    Amy MacDonald played a set in London’s Hard Rock Café for Absolute Radio earlier this evening. The set, promoting a new album, was great and should be going out on-air next Monday. In the meantime, even though I wasn’t right at the front, I’m pretty happy with some of the photos I took. As well…

  • Why Don’t We Get The BAFTAs Live?

    I know that the easy answers are that: 1. the show runs for at least three hours and viewers would get bored, or 2. we can’t trust celebrities not to swear and there’s a suspcision that 3. but then the after-parties wouldn’t start until post 11pm and that would be terrible. But as things stand…

  • Mouse Path

    My mouse trail from a morning at work. Generated using the fun Mouse Path software as linked to by the NY Times blog.

  • BBC Mobile Apps

    The big news eminating from the BBC today is that they’re finally getting around to releasing some mobile applications. That’s not entirely true: the BBC has previously released other applications, such as the iPlayer for various Nokia mobile phones. But notably, it hasn’t released any applications on the mobile daddy of them all – the…

  • What’s The Truth Behind Digital Radio Figures?

    The dust has settled a little bit on the last RAJAR figures were released. But there were a number of stories surrounding RAJAR much like this one, highlighting the fact that the overall level of digital listening fell from 21.1% in Q3 2009 to 20.9% in Q4 2009. That 0.2% drop was clearly disappointing, but…

  • Vancouver A Sell Out?

    According to the Vancouver organising committee, all 1.6m tickets for the Winter Olympics are expected to sell out. I’m always very suspicious of claims like that. Especially as I watched the USA v China Women’s Ice Hockey last night, and there were plenty of seats available. And I don’;t just mean a couple of no-shows…

  • Radio Times 11 February 2010

    Sorry – I only had a thick marker pen today. As ever, best viewed large.