Tag Archives: radio

Whatever Happened to Bobbie Gentry?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by

To disappear so completely that at the end of an hour long documentary about you the narrator is left offering the suggestion that maybe you are on an island off the Savannah Coast is pretty impressive. To disappear like that … Continue reading →

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On Radio 3: Mincemeat

Posted on November 14, 2011 by

In the past few years Operation Mincemeat has resurfaced. From being a true wartime tale, and staple of the kind of film they used to put on BBC 2 every Sunday afternoon, The Man Who Never Was now, remarkably, has … Continue reading →

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On Radio 4: Deep Down and Dirty Rock ‘n’ Roll

Posted on May 16, 2011 by

The Saturday Play on Radio 4 might be seen as an unlikely slot for rock n roll excess – and so it transpired as Mark Davies Markham’s Deep Down and Dirty Rock ‘n’ Roll (starring Suggs, as the trailers repeatedly … Continue reading →

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Farewell to Radio 7

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

BBC 7 it was, and then BBC Radio 7. It doesn’t matter what septal form it’s taking now because it’ll be Radio 4 Extra soon and with that change the world gets just that little bit bleaker. Not Japanese tsunami … Continue reading →

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2-365 / Radio

Posted on January 2, 2011 by

Yesterday, coffee. Today it’s radio. The morning and evening of my life. Coffee to get me going and then radio to send me to sleep – which is very unfair on the wireless but then I only really get round … Continue reading →

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Shatner. Again.

Posted on April 6, 2009 by

Last night I entered The Twilight Zone. Nee-ni-nee-ni and all that. It was a radio version of The Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. All a bit preposterous but just gripping enough at midnight in that surreal world when you’re not quite … Continue reading →

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