Monday May 22nd sees the return of the best thing about Radio 4.
Archive for the ‘Coming up soon’ Category
I’m sorry I haven’t a clue is back
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006Ricky Gervais reapeats on XFM
Saturday, May 6th, 2006Yep, they’re repeating Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington’s fantastic 2005 shows again on XFM.
Tun in every Saturday at 1pm.
Creative Future – More Radio comedy and personilised content
Sunday, April 30th, 2006Personalisation and immediacy are going to be critical for music – on broadband, mobile, podcasting – and we want users to be able to create their own virtual radio channels out of the wealth of our music output, channels which reflect their tastes and priorities.
BBC director general, Mark Thompson
Radio comedy will also receive a bit of a boost as part of the Creative Future with more mainstream comedy shows and series expected.The commissioning of interactive and online spin-offs is to be more closely integrated with radio and TV comedy.
Radio 1 Presents the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sunday, April 16th, 2006
Looking forward to the Chilli’s almost live on Radio One.
You can hear the show from 7pm Easter Monday and then from 9pm an hour long documentary and the gig will be available from the BBC Radio Player.
The documentary, ‘From skateboards to stadiums’ featuring Zane Lowe interviewing all the band members also features the band’s mums – nice.
You can convert Real Audio from the BBC’s Radio Player to MP3 for easy iPod listening. More info here»
The Mighty Boosh – The Movie?
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
The Mighty Boosh may be doing a film or maybe even a Muppets style sketch/entertainment show they’ve revelaed in an interview with Design Magazine.
Watch out Ant and Dec.
Britain’s Modern Brunels
Friday, April 7th, 2006Interesting documentary coming this Wednesday looking at modern day Brunels.
They’ve moved mountains, broken world speed records and could soon take the ‘long’ and the ‘haul’ out of long-haul flying but still, which modern British engineer could possibly compare with the great Isambard Kingdom Brunel? In a new four-part series celebrating the bicentenary of one of the greatest of Britons, Sue Nelson encounters Britain’s Modern Brunels.
Wednesdays 12 April to 3 May 2006 9.00-9.30pm.
The Now Show will be podcast
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Great news eh? The Now Show is back on Friday at 6.30pm (repeated when I tend to be in the bath – 12.30 Saturday).
At last a comedy podcast from Radio 4. I was begining to think that they’d only ever be podcasting documentaries and the like.
Reith Lectures 2006 to be podcasted
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
The Reith Lectures are one of the highlights of BBC radio broadcasting.
In this year’s Reith Lectures musician and conductor Daniel Barenboim discusses the interplay between music and society.
Broadcast: Fridays at 9am, 7 April to 5 May. Best of all they are going to podcast it.
The Mighty Boosh
Monday, March 20th, 2006
The Mighty Boosh have just announced another Bristol date to their sell out tour. Nothing has been announced on the Boosh website but the Colston hall are listing the event.
If the last set of dates are anything to go by they’ll sell out pretty damn quickly so get ‘em while you can.
Saturday 15th April @7.30pm at the Colston Hall.
Virus Wars – Radio 4 next Monday
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006This looks good, coming up next Monday at 11 am on Radion 4:
It is 20 years since the first computer virus appeared. Now experts estimate there are 115,000 viruses at work on the worldwide web, with 2000 new ones being added to the internet every month. Quentin Cooper investigates their impact and discovers how antivirus companies are battling to beat them.
As Safe as Houses
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006I 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.
John Peel Day
Friday, August 26th, 2005Radio One have just announced that October 13th will be the first John Peel day. Myself I can’t wait I loved John Peel and the though of hearing hime again on radio really makes me happy. Something to really look forward too.
Oasis preview their new album on Radio 1
Saturday, May 21st, 2005This is an exclusive chance to find out what Oasis’ new album sounds like as the band’s London gig is broadcast on Steve Lamacq’s show.
Mon 23rd May @ 9pm
Get (Free) Tickets to BBC shows
Wednesday, April 6th, 2005Nice one. Look what I found. Seems you can get tickets to see popular Radio 4 programmes for free. I quite fancy seeing Dead Ringers…
Reith Lectures on Radio 4
Friday, April 1st, 2005I first came across the Reith Lectures in 2003 with Vilayanur Ramachandran giving a fascinating series of lectures on the brain and perception and for a simple soul like me they made sense. He avoids the dull chemisty stuff and gets right into the interesting stuff- like what is art and how do we percieve beauty.
The lectures start again next week on Radio 4 – The Triumph of Technology. Lord Broers aurgues that Technology is the future for the human race. I can’t wait.