It’s not just the programmes that I love. Radios themselves can be so beautiful, much more so than TVs or other electronics.
I subscribe to an RSS feed on flickr dedicated to pictures of radios and one of my favourite things is to browse through these photos looking for lovely radios. Here’s one that caught my eye today.
Imagine my surprise the other day when I turned on my TV to see an old radio acquaintance of mine. Back in my student radio days (many years ago now) I had the pleasure of working with Eugene Sully. It’s strange seeing him again, especially in such the strange environment that is Big Brother. He was always a sweet honest guy who would go out of his way to help anyone and I hope that BB don’t take advantage of his good nature.
I’ll try and dig out some clips of his radio how if I can find them. He had this obsession for throwing electronic equipment from tall buildings and then playing the highlights out to listeners. Not the most engaging of radio but certainly innovative I grant you.
On the other hand you might want to stick around and read some stuff about radio.
BBC Radio 5 Live is supporting the Radio Amnesty campaign where you can get 10% of a digital radio if you trade in an old analogue model.
The dontated radios will then be shipped to Somalia and Sudan
XFM have put up Ricky Gervais’ fantastic show as MP3’s. I can’t beleive it’s taken me six weeks to notice!
Mind you I can’t beleive he hasn’t been taken of the air, the show I heard a few weeks back he was looking for someone to stick their finger up Keith’s arse.
Just isn’t funny. I’ve been listening to his show for a few weeks now and just find him more than anything irritating. His type of humour just doesn’t quite fit the station; he’d be rather more at home on Radio 2. But then I guess this is the summer known as a place to fill the schedule rather than do anything special.
On a slightly different note, I was listening to Feedback on Sunday night. Somebody asked about the reason behind the shorter run of I’m sorry I haven’t a clue. I was expecting a response along the lines of “Well the guys are just getting old and find it hard”. But no, it’s all about “other commitments” the teams have. Shame. As “Quote, unquote” has a run of around 12 programmes we only get 6 per series of I’m sorry I haven’t a clue.
Whenever I listen to the radio in the afternoons the drama just seems really weird. Odd themes, normally a bit screwed up. Why?