I’ve just heard the sad news about Linda Smith.
She was by a long way the best thing about many Radio 4 comedies – Just a minute will never be quite the same again.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Adam and Joe MP3 Clips
Taken from their Saturday show on XFM.
They talked on their show a few weeks back about doing a podcast, Adam mentions it on his site. They finish the current run of show in April and hopefully something will come of it after that.
Friday, February 24, 2006
The Song Tapper
The Song Tapper – Find music by tapping the rhythm of the song’s melody – Genius, mind you it didn’t recognise God gave rock and roll to you by Kiss.
Britcaster – Best of British Podcasts
I’ve been looking for really good British podcasts for a while now to get me out of my Radio 4 habit – well, the search is over, Britcaster lists a huge amount of British podcasts. I’m going try out a couple over the weekend and post some recommendations next week.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Ricky Gervais Podcast no longer free
The BBC comedy blog wrote yesterday about how Ricky Gervais is going to start charging for his popular podcast. It’ll only cost a £1 but could start a trend.
Would I subscribe if I had to pay? I’m not sure. It’ll be interesting to see how it works out and if he can replicate the success he had with the free podcast. He had over 250,000 downloads a week so even if he get half that he’ll be a very rich man.
Would you pay a quid to hear Gervais?
Leave a comment below.
Looking for free Ricky Gervais MP3’s?
XFM have put up some MP3’s of his old Saturday morning shows.
XFM have put up some MP3’s of his old Saturday morning shows.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Wendy James : interview
I remember getting my first radio when I was 12 years old – wow, it was ace. A black Philips that my great uncle had been using in his shed. The thing was ancient but I loved it. I used to spend hours listening to it.
My local music station at the time Severn Sound was playing a lot of Transvision Vamp, mostly “Baby, I don’t care”. I remember Transvision Vamp just disappearing suddenly and being quite disappointed about it – only for Wendy James to pop up with a solo album a few years later and disappear again. Along with the interviewer in this piece I had a massive crush on Wendy James and I often wondered what happened to her – read on and find out what did.
Moyles is Disc Shocky
DJ Chris Moyles yesterday branded a listener’s children “f***ing brats” live on his Radio 1 breakfast show
He’s a bad boy isn’t he.
What are your thought on Moyles? Is he the saviour of Radio One? Let me know what you think by adding a comment.
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Monday, February 20, 2006
What’s in a name?
Came across this show on Del.ic.ious:
This week on The Infinite Mind, host Dr. Peter Kramer explores the psychology and history of names, and how they shape our identity. We take a closer look at the curious coincidence of people whose names match their profession, and we speak with film makers Alan Berliner and Grace Lee, who both made documentaries charting their quest for the people who share their name.
We analyze how products like IPod and Viagra were named with Steve Manning, managing director of Igor, a “naming company.” William Bright, a linguist and anthropologist specializing in place names, tells us how places like Boring, Oregon and Intercourse, Pennsylvania got their names. And commentator John Hockenberry explains why names will never hurt him.
Saturday, February 18, 2006
The history of Englishness in pop music
Front Row on Radio 4 last night had a special on Englishness in in pop music.
The show featured Ray Davies, Paul Weller, Damon Albarn, Simon Armitage, D.J. Taylor and John Harris talking about the very English sound typified by The Kinks, The Arctic Monkeys and many more.
Front Row really does do some great stuff sometimes. If you missed it it should be available on Listen Again for the next week or so.
Internet Radio Blog
Over at O’ Malley speaks. Kevin has just put a nifty little music thingy in his site. It plays a set of MP3s stored on the site through a little music player. Very cool.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
As Safe as Houses
I love Marcus Brigstocke, I think he’s one of the best things about Radio 4. I caught the second programme in his series on the British obsession with owning their own house last Saturday and what a treat it was.
Apparently the Queen owns the land my house is built on, not sure if I’m ok with that, still there’s not much I can do about it I guess.
The final part of the three part series is next Saturday at 10.30am.
Monday, February 13, 2006
The best radio on a mobile?
When I was looking for a new mobile recently at the top of my list of features was a really good radio. I walked in Carphone Warehouse and asked the guy working there if he could recommend me a phone with a good radio. This seemed to really throw the poor guy. He ummed and ahhhed for a while and eventually showed me the K750i from Sony Ericsson.
And guess what? It really does have a very good radio. RDS, auto tuning and loads more features make it fantastic. My favourite thing about the phone is that I can use it as a clock radio – meaning I can hear the Today programme in it’s full glory (well through little speaker in the back of the phone) wherever I am.
Not only is radio good but the Mp3 player is pretty good too. It’s a top phone, go and buy one now!
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Thursday, February 2, 2006
I want one of these
I was reading the Guardian this morning and came Victor Keagan was talking about Internet radio and mentioned the wifi radio.
It’s a really interesting idea. A radio that uses your broadband connection to stream Internet radio. I listen to a lot of Internet Radio and hate the fact I have to have my PC on to listen – meaning I can’t listen away from a computer. Victor Keagan mentioned he had little problems with network connectivity – but found it difficult to search out new stations. At £199 it’s pretty reasonable, especially as it can also stream MP3s from another computer on the network meaning you can listen to your music stored on the PC anywhere in the house.