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• BBC to review too white Radio 4

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  BBC Radio 4 is reviewing its programming in an attempt to increase its appeal to ethnic minorities following criticism that it is too white.
  10 hours ago

• Radio series to tell tale of humankind

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  British Museum and BBC reveal ambitious 100-part project that aims to construct story of the world using objects collected from past 2 million years of history
  3 days ago

• Global history series to take R4 Book of the Week slot

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  A History of the World in 100 Objects to be presented by British Museum director Neil MacGregor BBC Radio 4 is to drop its long-running morning slot Book of the Week to make way for a landmark 100-part series, A History of the World in 100 Objects, made in collaboration with the British Museum. The global history ...
  3 days ago

• In Search of Self

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 452
  In The Remembered Present Gerald Edelman suggests that the fundamental problem of consciousness is how the mind, presumably as embodied by the brain, establishes a sense of self and, in particular, how the distinction between self and other is established. Since I tend to agree with this premise, I ...
  3 days ago

• Media Monkeys Diary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  ✒No one was more surprised by Archie Normans appointment as ITV chairman than the broadcasters commercial director, Rupert Howell. Because Howell had been out shooting with Norman – well, he is a Tory – the previous week, when he had given nothing away about his new role. Howell was naturally concerned in case ...
  6 days ago

• Last Night 21/11/2009

  
  SMOKE/LESS/FUELS — Authority: 119
  Check last night s Standard Radio show; DJ Sub One and DJ Halfdutch on the set. Tune in again next week for more standard business. Download Tracklist on the way
  6 days ago

• Marks and Spencers Sir Stuart Rose comes clean on Desert Island Discs

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Retail boss talks candidly to Kirsty Young and reveals he cant live without a power shower Hes worried you will think hes a wimp but this retail Robinson Crusoe couldnt live without a power shower and a set of white fluffy towels. Sir Stuart Roses turn today as a Desert Island Discs castaway provides some insight ...
  1 week ago

• Lord Reith 1, Atheists 0…

  
  this fragile tent — Authority: 424
  Each weekday millions of people in Britain reach for their radio and tune to BBC radio 4’s Today programme. It has been my primary window on world news and events for 40 years. In a world of sound bites and looped infotainment it’s continued popularity is remarkable. Thoughtful extended reflections on real issues? ...
  1 week ago

• A score for In Trust for Scotland in dispute with NTS

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) members’ lobby group, In Trust for Scotland (ITFS) has been engaged in a confrontation with the organisation since the precipitate announcement in the Spring of this year that the NTS was to close or revise the function and status of 11 of its properties.The group attracted ...
  1 week ago

• Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe Gets A Christmas Special

  
  Nerdles — Authority: 152
  Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe will return to TV this Christmas for a one-off special, producers Endemol have confirmed.The BBC Four show has run for five series’ since its premiere in March 2006 and led to the Newswipe and Gameswipe spinoffs.Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe Review of the Year will examine Live at ...
  1 week ago

• A Quick Recommendation

  
  adambowie.com — Authority: 489
  Before I forget, and before it expires on the BBC iPlayer, you must listen to last Saturdays Archive on 4 - Radio Hollywood . Between the mid-thirties and early-fifties, the Lux Radio Theater broadcast one hour radio adaptations of popular films of the day, employing either the original stars, or other movies ...
  1 week ago

• BBC Radio 4 Food & Farming awards: grocers know its good to talk

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  As the finalists in the BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards show a chatty grocer will always beat a silent supermarket.
  1 week ago

• Melvyn Bragg history show In Our Time to go online in BBC archive

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  BBC to make 11 years worth of programme chronicling history of ideas available on the internet In Our Time, the BBC Radio 4 history show presented by Melvyn Bragg , is more usually associated with the past - but it is about to take a huge step into the future. The show, which chronicles the history of ideas, is ...
  1 week ago

• Insomnia:The least fun you can have whilst you’re awake

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 491
  Not being able to get to sleep is arguably one of the most miserable things in the world. OK pedants, it’s not as bad as divorce, murder or having your house burn down (but bloody chances are that that would have been the night you actually fell asleep and left the 3-bar fire on.)  Insomnia has stalked my every ...
  1 week ago

• Snakes

  
  Speechification — Authority: 112
  Atlantic Public Media curates a weekly podcast of nature programmes from all around North American public radio - a pretty rich source, it turns out. Heres a lovely short feature from the 1980s about snakes, produced by Public Radio veteran Jay Allison . Wouldnt it be great to add the BBCs radio nature programmes ...
  1 week ago

• The Herschel Space Telescope | Radio review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  The story of the Herschel space telescope started slowly, but we got a real sense of the people involved Its weird how some programmes are squished into teensy slots, and youre left yearning for much more, while others occupy more luxuriously commodious slots and you cant fathom why. There was nothing wrong with ...
  1 week ago

• Pass notes no 2,686: Thought for the Day

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Why are atheists not allowed to have their say on the Today programme slot? Age: 39. Appearance: Triumphant, but trying to hide it. Lets just cut to the chase today. Whats occurring? Well, good morning John, and good morning Evan, and good morning everybody. A funny thing happened to me on the way to the ...
  1 week ago

• Religious propaganda from the BBC | Terry Sanderson

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The decision to deny atheists access to Thought for the Day is just one aspect of the BBCs lamentable pro-faith stance So, religion keeps its monopoly on Thought for the Day . Are we surprised? Of course not. Whatever happens in the world around it – emptying churches, assertive secularism, blockbuster bestsellers ...
  1 week ago

• Announcing New Contributors to your NORML Daily Audio Stash

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 533
  I am so excited to break the news that we have four new contributors to help bring you the Daily Audio Stash!  In response to my call for volunteer music editors I received a lot of applications and picked from the best of them to give you our new lineup: Weekday Editor-in-Charge Roots Monday (Blues / ...
  1 week ago

• Monkeys Thought for the Day | Media Monkey

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Monkeys Thought for the Day – is the BBC Trust beginning to feel the strain of compliance and accountability? Monkey only asks as the trusts decision to bar atheists and humanists from two-minute religious slot Thought for the Day was a whopping 65, yes 65, pages long. Monkey – reading BBC Trust documents so you ...
  1 week ago

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