Month: December 2016

  • Morston Salt Marshes

    Morston Salt Marshes from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. This is something of a companion piece to my previous salt marshes video which was shot a little further down the coast at Blakeney and Cley. Morston quay also has passage out into the sound, Blakeney Pit, and onwards to Blakeney Point. The music is from the…

  • The Fog Rolling In

  • Radio Times – Boxing Day 2016

    So you’ve made it through to Boxing Day. Assuming you’re not hitting the shops for the sales, or off to some sporting or outdoors activity, you’ll be settling in at home looking for more entertainment. Here are my choices and anti-choices for Boxing Day from the Radio Times. As ever, click the link below to…

  • Radio Times – Christmas Day 2016

    Happy Christmas! It feels as though everyone and their mum has released a Christmas Messageā„¢ this year. However, I shall simply try my best to satisfy the nation’s TV watching by sharing once more pages from my copy of the Radio Times. Hopefully this will help you find some of the programmes the rest of…

  • Radio Times – Christmas Eve 2016

    It’s that time of year again, when I humbly take it upon myself to help you make your viewing and listening choices. Yes – that means Post-Its and pens on a copy of the Christmas Radio Times, scanning them in and making your life easier. (I’ve been doing this for quite a while.) As ever,…

  • TeamRock: An Autopsy (I Never Understood You)

    The sad news, just ahead of Christmas, is that 73 staff who worked for Team Rock, have lost their jobs as their company has entered administration. The Daily Record reports that just seven staff will be kept on to help administrators. It’s a disappointing end to a business that I never quite understood. Team Rock…

  • The Singles Charts

    It may seem unlikely that I’m writing about the UK singles charts, on the basis that I’m not sure that I could name a single song released this year that may have troubled the chart compilers. Except that it turns out I’m wrong. I know quite a lot of the songs in the current chart.…

  • TechCon 2016 – The Return

    One of the casualties of the changes surrounding the Radio Academy was that TechCon, the one day conference about radio and audio technology, fell by the wayside. Fortunately, it was gamely picked up by Ann Charles, Aradhna Tayal and Andy Buckingham, who took the conference independent. Running a conference is not for the faint-hearted, with…