Radio

Tracy-Ann Oberman: Playing the diva

April 26, 2010

“I didn’t want to be in this,” admits Tracy-Ann Oberman. “I’d suggested Catherine to the producer, I thought she’d be brilliant. But I didn’t want to be in it at all, so I was a bit nervous when the producer came to me and said Radio 4 would really like me to be.” Oberman is […]

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And you can quote me on that

October 30, 2009

Over the last week or so, my name’s popped up in a couple of places. Firstly, in Sunday’s Observer I was quoted in a feature on television’s propensity to remake old series. My quote, taken from a much longer conversation, rounded off the article: Scott Matthewman, assistant editor of the trade paper The Stage, who […]

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Building a trailer

August 7, 2009

For the fourth year running, The Stage has joined forces with Ewan Spence and The Podcast Network to produce The Edinburgh Fringe Podcast, a daily podcast covering the best in theatre and comedy from the world’s largest arts festival. The top and tail of each show will include adverts for various parts of The Stage’s […]

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Holmes v Sunday Times: WTF?

July 5, 2009

Something really bizarre seems to have happened to a column penned by comedian Jon Holmes, BBC 6Music DJ and regular contributor to Radio 4’s The Now Show. As can be seen in the Twitter post above, Holmes has provided a link to the original document on his website, and the version that has been published […]

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It’s nice to be noticed

June 6, 2009

A pleasant surprise to see this status on Twitter this morning from the BBC Radio 4 blog: I’ve been doing weekly radio previews for a while now as part of the Turn off the TV section of our TV blog. Infuriatingly, this week’s has been, I think, one of the weakest: not helped by a […]

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Kevin Greening, RIP

December 31, 2007

When it comes to Kevin Greening’s sense of humour, one excerpt from his radio career will always stick in my mind. At the time, he was presenting the mid-morning show on Xfm, and a woman had emailed in to ask if the webcam was working. “She says, ‘When I click on the webcam icon, all […]

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The BBC Governors are spastics

June 6, 2006

Does the headline of this post offend you? It should. It’s insulting not only to the subjects (the BBC Board of Governors), but to a whole section of the population. It’s an insult that was prevalent in the school playgrounds that I grew up in, but that’s no excuse. Quite rightly, if anybody bandied such […]

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