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Edison Research Top 25 UK Podcasts – Q4 2025
Edison Research has just published their Top 25 Podcasts in the UK for Q4 2025. As ever, this chart is based on recall from 2,000 online interviews with weekly podcast listeners in the UK. As ever, I’m going to take the long view on this and show how the chart has changed over time. This…
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Note on Comments
Unfortunately I’m currently being deluged by comment spam on this blog – many hundreds of comments a day. While most of the comments aren’t getting through, I thought the best thing to do for the time being was switch them off for a bit. It’s the most hassle-free solution for me. In any case, I…
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Ministry of Sound v Spotify – What Does This Mean For Radio?
I find the story of Ministry of Sound taking legal action against Spotify absolutely fascinating, and potentially troubling, as it potentially opens up many cans of worms. As I understand it, it goes something like this. Ministry of Sound has a very profitable business releasing compilation albums. They licence tracks from various labels which they…
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space4cycling
Earlier this evening, while the House of Commons debated the Get Britain Cycling report, the LCC organised a massive cycle ride around the Houses of Parliament. The demonstration of something like 5000 cyclists was to make the case for road planning and traffic infrastructure to properly take cyclists into account. This certainly hasn’t happened to…
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Space, The World, Fashion and Portraits
I spent Saturday catching up on a number of exhibitions that I’ve been meaning to see, but which for various reasons, I’d not gotten around to. And there’s the small matter that some of them are closing quite soon. Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis is the result of a massive multi-year undertaking of the Brazilian photographer most…
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Muvi X-Lapse Timelapse Experiements
Yesterday I got hold of a cheap Muvi X-Lapse. It’s basically a device that you can mount on a tripod, and then on top of it you can either place a small(ish) camera or a mobile phone. Then with some kind of intervalmeter software either on your camera or your phone, you can shoot rotating…
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State Intimidation
I’m thoroughly sickened to learn of the intimidatory behaviour that representative of the UK have made against the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald in holding his partner for 9 hours for questioning under Section of the Terrorism Act. He’s not suspected of terrorism, and therefore it’s entirely intimidatory. Is this the kind of thing…
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The Drowned Man
In recent years there has been something of an explosion in immersive experiences. Although these events always sound to me like something I’d probably like, I’ve been quite slow in actually getting involved. Up until now, the closest I’ve got is probably Secret Cinema. I went to one of their earlier productions – Funny Face…
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Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
On Radio 4’s Film Programme recently, Mark Gatiss has been re-examining TV spin-off films from the seventies including film versions of Are You Being Served, On the Buses, and the only one he really rated, Porridge. The feature-film spin-off has a long history in UK television, although as Gatiss explained it was largely used as…
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London Surrey Classic
Some photos from Sunday’s Prudential London Surrey Classic men’s road race. Some more photos over on Flickr.
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RAJAR Q2 2013
Yesterday, the DCMS finally got around to publishing something that became neither a white paper, nor a green paper, but instead Connectivity, Content and Consumers: Britain’s Digital Platform for Growth – a policy statement that bundled a lot of things together. Importantly for radio, it reinforced the Government’s commitment to make an in-principle decision on…
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Absolute Radio to be Acquired by Bauer Media
Somehow Storify seemed like the appropriate vehicle for this! And it also neatly gets me out of trying to analyse the future of the business that I’ve worked at for nearly 17 years, especially when it mightn’t be appropriate. [View the story “Bauer Media to Acquire Absolute Radio” on Storify] Yes, this will affect me.…
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Rolling Thunder
listen to ‘Distant Thunder’ on Audioboo I always have my Zoom H2 handy in case of an electric storm. Sadly, this time they didn’t pass quite as closely to me as I’d have liked. So this is a little distant and is edited down from a 45 minute recording made in the small hours of…
Hadrian’s Wall
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