radio 4

Welcome to the 'radio 4' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'radio 4'.

Are you an expert about 'radio 4'? Do you want to be the Technorati authority on 'radio 4'? You can write a description that will appear right here: Join Blogcritics!

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “radio 4”

 

• Checking BBC-propagated untruths about checkpoints

  
  — Authority:
  We recently discussed the May 9 th 2013 edition of BBC Radio 4′s ‘Today’ programme in which veteran anti-Israel campaigner Ghada Karmi was given more or less free rein to propagate a collection of untruths and defamation. Among Karmi’s many deliberately misleading statements was the following: “The ...
  3 days ago

• BBC Woman’s Hour: Civil partnerships are a stopgap

  
  — Authority:
  Earlier today I appeared on BBC Radio 4 show Woman’s Hour . I am always delighted to receive an invitation to appear on this iconic show. Women have been debating and discussing the finer points of their lives on this radio institution since 1946! This morning’s topic was civil partnerships and whether they ...
  3 days ago

• UK: civil partnerships for heterosexual couples would cost £4 billion claims government

  
  — Authority:
  An amendment to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill extending civil partnerships to heterosexual couples would cost £4 billion and delay the legislation by as much as two years, the government has claimed. The government is braced for a significant Tory rebellion during the bill’s third reading later today. ...
  3 days ago

• Diatribe against anti-terrorist fence on BBC Radio 4

  
  — Authority:
  As may have been anticipated, episode four of John McCarthy’s radio series “In a Prince’s Footsteps” – broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on May 9 th 2013 and available  here for a limited period of time – consisted of fifteen minutes of undiluted propaganda.  Beginning in the village of al Jib – ...
  1 week ago

• Deception and Perception

  
  — Authority:
  I need to make it clear that I don’t agree with counterfeits. If I want a Gold Rolex watch then buying one on the beach out of a guys suitcase is unlikely to have all the necessary guarantees! And $25 doesn’t usually cover the cost of the box. But yesterday I heard something on the radio and had to smile. ...
  1 week ago

• BBC Radio 4 programme on Jerusalem erases Jewish presence

  
  — Authority:
  In 1862 the population of Jerusalem numbered some 17,800 people, with the majority (eight thousand) being Jews. Two years prior to that date the first Jewish neighbourhood outside the Old City walls – Mishkenot Sha’ananim – had been built by Sir Moses Montefiore. Inside the Old City itself, ...
  1 week ago

• BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ promotes more Syrian regime propaganda

  
  — Authority:
  h/t JK The May 6 th edition of BBC Radio 4′s ‘Today’ programme did not only feature a potentially BAFTA-winning performance by Jeremy Bowen pretending that “nobody really knows” whether or why Iranian long-range missiles might be transferred to the terrorist organisation Hizballah via Syria. ...
  2 weeks ago

• BBC’s Bowen plays dumb to weave tangled web

  
  — Authority:
  The Monday May 6 th 2013 edition of BBC Radio 4′s ‘Today’ programme included a contribution from BBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen on the subject of the preceding weekend’s alleged Israeli air-strikes on targets in Syria.   The recording can be heard here for a limited period of time, ...
  2 weeks ago

• One to watch out for on BBC Radio 4

  
  — Authority:
  h/t JK BBC Radio 4 is currently airing a two-week long series of daily 15 minute broadcasts by John McCarthy who was kidnapped in Beirut  in 1986 and held hostage by Islamic Jihad terrorists for over five years. The series is called “ In a Prince’s Footstep s ” and is described by the BBC ...
  2 weeks ago

• Help to stop Facebook from sharing snuff videos

  
  — Authority:
  Yesterday morning, 4th May, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the most disturbing possible piece. It was looking at the outright refusal of social networking site, Facebook, to take down violent videos on or linked from contributors posts. What the programme referred to as ‘violent videos’ are very much worse than that. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Say my name, say my name

  
  — Authority:
  Apologies to Destiny’s Child (you too Mrs. Carter), but that was the first thing that popped into my head when I listened to the Today Programme this morning. I have no intention of becoming a political blogger but that’s going to be difficult if I keep listening to Radio 4 in the morning. It struck me as ...
  2 weeks ago

• John Humphrys thinks outside the box | Media Monkey

  
  — Authority:
  Straight-talking BBC Radio 4 Today inquisitor, John Humphrys , does not mince his words in a column for the Daily Mirror on Friday. His latest target is management speak, and he writes: "The smartest decision Ive made in the 45 years that Ive been with the BBC was to stop going to meetings." Humphrys harrumphed that ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Noise: A Human History’ producer Matt Thompson on turning down the noise

  
  Bowers & Wilkins blog — Authority: 128
  "Noise, like a weed, is only a sound in the wrong place. And like roses in vegetable patches noise can be beautiful but still needs to be uprooted or pruned out. On the recent series  Noise: A Human History   I travelled the world to tell the history of humankind through the sounds we have made from cavemen ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ed Miliband wins over angry man on the dole after insults on immigration

  
  — Authority:
  Unemployed man swears at Labour leader over immigration but ends up shaking hands after lengthy pavement chat It was a day of mixed fortunes on the campaign trail for Ed Miliband on Monday. An interview with Martha Kearney on Radio 4s The World at One, recorded in a BBC radio car in a car park in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Creative Writing Courses | BBC Radio 4 - You & Yours

  
  POD, Self Publishing and Independent Publishing — Authority: 128
  There was an interesting discussion on todays edition of the BBC Radio 4 consumer programme You & Yours about creative writing courses, and specifically those run by big publishers like Faber and Bloomsbury. Liz Thomson of Bookbrunch and Jason Cooper of the Faber Academy appeared on the programme and expressed ...
  3 weeks ago

• Google Glass won’t launch until 2014 says Eric Schmidt

  
  — Authority:
  Despite Google Glass Explorer Edition units already being in the hands of developers , it appears that Google wont be ready to release Glass to the masses for another year or so. Originally the company had hopes to release its wearable computing device by the end of 2013 for general consumers, but comments from ...
  4 weeks ago

Comments about radio 4