Month: July 2010

  • The Future of Radio

    I’m going to do something here that’s very dangerous. I’m going to conflate two separate stories into one. But follow me through. They are two separate stories, but there are commonalities and themes that run through them. Today’s Daily Mail (listen to Monday’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue for more details on what this…

  • Have You Picked Up Your Copy of Amateur Photographer?

    This week’s Amateur Photographer magazine is well worth picking up. It comes with a free lens cloth, on which is printed a very polite note to any police officers of PCSOs who may stop you for – er – taking photos. As you may or may not be aware, more and more photographers, both amateur…

  • Identity

    What should we make of Identity, ITV1’s big new police thriller series? It stars another refugee from The Wire, Aidan Gillen, as well as Keeley Hawes who’s fresh from finishing Ashes to Ashes. The series is set in the plush offices of Scotland Yard’s Identity unit. Hawes’ DSI Martha Lawrence has had to take on…

  • 6 Music Saved

    Well – “the case has not been made” for closing it down. So reads one of the lines of the BBC Trust’s Interim conclusions. In other words, 6 Music has been saved. On Twitter, the excitement is already palpable. Now though, the station faces the future. How many of its newly found audience will stay…

  • Grotesque Television

    Stage 1 of the Tour de France had finished in a series of crashes, and Rafa had wrapped up another Wimbledon title. What else was there in the way of sport to watch on television? I strayed over to ESPN America, where usually I’d find something like live baseball at this time of year. But…