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• Alan Bennett proposes anti-Desert Island Discs

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  In the latest instalment of Alan Bennetts dairy (published in the current issue of the London Review of Books under the coverline Alan Bennett Eats a Poached Egg) he records: "Its years since I was on Desert Island Discs but these days Id find it much easier to choose the eight records I dont want than those that I ...
  6 hours ago

• Michael Vaughan: a fine addition to the Test Match Special team - touch wood!| Peter Robins

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  The former England captain has made some astute calls on the current series – lets just hope he doesnt get nicked by Sky Listening to Test Match Special – especially in a series as tense as this one – can be a superstitious business. If Jonathan Agnew praises this batsman, will he get out next ball? And what ...
  16 hours ago

• Turning the air Blue | Media Monkey

  
  Media: Media Monkey | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 136
  Rabbi Lionel Blue , known for his gentle Jewish humour on Radio 4s Thought for the Day, was in top form on Mondays slot. The Daily Mail reports that the cleric told listeners the following story to remind them not to worry about sex: "A tired old Jewish woman plods home from the textile factory. At the corner, a ...
  19 hours ago

• Radio This Week

  
  adambowie.com — Authority: 425
  Theres a few interesting things on TV just at the moment, but Im going to concentrate on radio. All this week, Melvyn Bragg is celebrating the Royal Societys 350th anniversary with four episodes of In Our Time . The first is already available to listen to as I type (and theyll stay available, which is fabulous). ...
  1 day ago

• Baluns seem to be my primary concern

  
  VA3QV's Weblog — Authority: 131
  Well if you go back to yesterdays posting…(where have we seen that before??)  I told you the hombrewed balun was no longer working on 160m and I was not sure if it was a design issue or a construction fault.  I would now have to go with construction fault as this morning I lost 80m after the balun was covered with ...
  1 day ago

• The Quinn & Rose Morning Radio Show Live Thread, January 4, 2010

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Join us in the Warroom from 6 to 9 Eastern every morning on www.wpgb.com or listen online at: http://streamingradioguide.com/streaming-radio-shows.php?sformat=1&radio-format=Political%20Opinion http://streamingradioguide.com/radio-show.php?show=2238 Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
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• Women and Fascism

  
  I Intend To Escape ......................And Come Back — Authority: 432
  Quite a few teenagers have been known to complain that their parents are fascists, but in the case of James Maw it was actually true - his mother was a member of Sir Oswald Mosleys British Union of Fascists.  "Mother Was A Blackshirt" on Radio 4 today at 1100, goes considerably further, with Maw sketching a ...
  2 days ago

• I dont believe it!

  
  Barnacle Bill — Authority: 131
  Arrived safely down here in not so sunny but more brass monkey weather Cornwall. Good run down but I feel sorry for anyone on the M5 north bound from Taunton upwards. Two major accidents by the look of them with the queues going back miles. Whilst I was zooming down the motorways I decided to have a listen to Radio ...
  2 days ago

• Going radio gaga

  
  doctorvee — Authority: 421
  The country lurches back into its usual routine this week. But with the new year comes changes, and a vital part of everyone’s daily life — the radio — will seem very different. My parents are concerned about what will happen to Radio 2 after the departure of Terry Wogan from breakfast. They were not happy to ...
  2 days ago

• John Cushnie obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Witty panellist on BBC Radio 4s Gardeners Question Time John Cushnie, who has died of a heart attack aged 66, was a gardener and panellist on BBC Radio 4s Gardeners Question Time. His wide-ranging and detailed knowledge of gardening was enriched with a generous mulch of acerbic but good-humoured wit. He achieved the ...
  2 days ago

• British MP slams BBC for getting rid of older women presenters

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  London, Jan. 3 (ANI): British MP Harriet Harman has slammed BBC, ITV and other broadcasters for “getting rid” of women presenters once they get older, and valuing older men for their “experience and wisdom.” “I was looking at the figures to be a BBC news presenter as a woman you have to be ten [...]
  2 days ago

• Baroness James, and her killer instinct

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 955
  Crime writer PD James fills her books with gruesome deeds - but few come close to the fearless attack she launched on Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC, last week
  3 days ago

• Are most of our footballers really knobs or is it just Joey Barton? | Barney Ronay

  
  Sport: Sportblog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 149
  The Newcastle midfielders knob-coloured spectacles enhanced his view on the Today programme This week Tony Adams guest-edited Radio Fours breakfast news show, the Today programme, perhaps the most surprising piece of left-field casting since Adams briefly guest-managed Portsmouth and, before that, briefly ...
  4 days ago

• The greatest exhibition you could have

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  When Neil MacGregor took over as director of the British Museum it was in debt and out of fashion. He made it seem fun again, and reversed its fortunes. Now he has new plans for the objects in his care Pressed to choose a favourite among the 100 things featured in his new radio series, A History of the World in 100 ...
  4 days ago

• A new decade: whats in a name?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  There appears no consensus on what to call the next decade. Is it the 10s, twenty-tens, tenties, teens, or even tweenies? The new year had barely begun before the arguments on Radio 4s Today programme about whether 2010 should be pronounced twenty-ten or two-thousand-and-ten. The website twentynot2000.com is clear: ...
  4 days ago

• Tributes paid to Gardeners Question Time star John Cushnie

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Popular panellist, who died on New Years Eve, laced programme with warmth and joy, BBC Radio 4 controller says Tributes were today paid to John Cushnie, the BBC Radio 4 Gardeners Question Time panellist who died on New Years Eve. Mark Damazer, the stations controller, said Cushnie, from County Down, Northern ...
  4 days ago

• What happened to the Radio 4 website?

  
  RevRuth's Rantings — Authority: 429
  Happy New Year everybody. Lang may yer lum reek and all that jazz. Now that we’ve got that out the way, let me continue with my rant for the day. (Not a good start to the year, is it?)  Today I find myself alone and determined not to work but to actually have my day off.  I haven’t managed to catch the Archers ...
  4 days ago

• Afternoon Play - Fireworks at Villa Lucia | Radio review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  It was light as a feather and ever so slightly ludicrous, but in the end Fireworks at Villa Lucia made a silly kind of sense There is no getting round the fact that yesterdays Afternoon Play – Fireworks at Villa Lucia (Radio 4) was a light thing, a dramatic souffle whose impact was only in the moment. It also ...
  5 days ago

• BBC brought to book

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 955
  Telegraph View: Many listeners would have cheered on Baroness James of Holland Park as she argued that too much money was lavished on bureaucrats and not enough on quality programmes.
  5 days ago

• PD James out to scupper BBC and Mark Thompson with maritime metaphor

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  If Mark Thompson was expecting his encounter with the 89-year-old grande dame of British crime fiction to be plain sailing, those hopes were torpedoed and left dead in the water in under a minute early this morning. PD James, the latest guest to edit the Radio Four Today programme over the festive season, began her ...
  5 days ago

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