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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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Channel 4 to Launch Digital Radio Station
Channel 4 are supposedly considering launching a digital radio station, that will be in “direct competition” with Radio 4. Umm, yeah, right. Running a radio station might not be such a bad idea, and the author of the piece is right in thinking that struggling Oneword would be the channel to morph into such a…
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Carnaby Street New “Concept”
There’s a new shop on Carnaby Street that’s staffing up at the moment that is calling itself “a new concept in mens’ retailing”. I think they mean that they’re “a new menswear shop”. Unless, that is, that they’re moving away from the traditional “pay the price on the price-tag” model that shops have traditionally adopted.…
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ITV Binning Series
Today’s Mediaguardian has a piece by David Liddiment where he tries to avoid any kind of blame attached to the axed drama Making Waves. If I’m reading the piece correctly he’s saying that he and Nick Elliot both had their doubts about the series and weren’t going to go ahead with it until the BBC…
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Entourage
I’ve been watching Entourage, the new HBO series, and it’s pretty good. We have the star actor Vince and his group of hangers on, supposedly modelled on the likes of Executive Producer Mark Wahlberg’s own gang, as well as those of people like Leondardo DiCaprio. He has his brother, a not quite as successful actor,…
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Wynton Marsalis at the Proms
Another night, another Prom. I always enjoy the visits of Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (last seen 18 months ago at the Barbican), so I’d been looking forward to this Prom for a while. I showed up quite early, but not early enough it seemed. Instead of joining the Arena queue, I was…
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Starter For Ten
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Isaac Newton
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Uniform Justice
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Fancy Sports Camerawork
This week’s Broadcast magazine has a double-page spread on something very close to my heart – those fancy camera techniques that are used in sport. Since Broadcast’s website is totally subscription only, here are their top ten: 1. Virtual Spectator – Basically all the graphics tricks used in coverage of the WRC. It all involves…
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IOC Corruption “Shock”
Looking forward to this Panorama, whenever it gets broadcast. No real surprises that votes can effectively be bought – the whole regime stinks in my opinion. This being an Olympic year, Andrew Jennings normally has another book out on this subject. It doesn’t seem to be the case this time around sadly. It’s always seemed…
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ID Cards Criticised
The report of the Home Office Select Committee is published today (PDF), and they report that plans are “badly thought out”. I need to spend a bit of time reading the report this weekend and then see what needs to be done next.
Hadrian’s Wall
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