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Being interviewed on 'The Big Debate' - audio of my intro' bit.
This is part of the audio from a recent local TV programme 'The Big Debate' I was involved in on a new Freeview service for Greater Manchester. I was there the week the debate on the BBC's future kicked off, to give my views on the future of broadcasting, the BBC, the licence fee, and so on.…
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Election Special, 2015
My plea to vote! Laying on a guilt trip for anyone who 'cba' today. Recorded using a new two-mic set up on my iPad, with one lavalier mic clipped to shirt and the other hung out the window. Feedback (not of the howl-round type!) appreciated, as I'm kinda test-driving for work.
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Liver_FM_May_6_0800
It was 10 years ago - that is, if you're listening on May 6, 2015! What a difference a decade makes - then, a Labour overall majority of *just* 65 in a general election was regarded as a disappointment! This is me (me! me!) presenting the news at 0800 the morning after the election on a…
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Les Ross int
It was 40 years ago today! This is the interview (?!) section of the 'Pop Forum' programme on the Birmingham Hospital Broadcasting Network (BHBN) with Les Ross on April 26, 1975. It was recorded a couple of days before at the BBC's Pebble Mill studios (hence my slip about it being "evening") but...
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Les Ross and Fiona - 26 April '75
It was 40 years ago today! "Snakes don't like jellybabies...they like real babies". Yes, a snake - which had obviously enjoyed being part of the previous Saturday morning kids' show - was making an unscheduled appearance in the Les Ross studio on BBC Radio Birmingham. Just one of the gems from…
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CarolineNorth Easter Monday 2014
Listen to me! Listen to me! One year ago today - and you might be able to tell I was having fun - on the Bridge of the LV23 former Lightship, now moored in Canning Dock, Liverpool. In April 2014 it was the home of a tribute service to the original offshore 'pirate' station Radio Caroline North.…
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Rosko bliss!
One year ago today! If this isn't the best 20 minutes of music radio you have ever heard , I wanna hear it! Broadcast on 'tribute' station Radio Caroline North from the Planet Bar Lightship, via LA, Easter Monday 2014. I've edited the music for copyright reasons but what is left is just…
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Rogus pod Mix
Training journalists on how to use social media is rapidly becoming an essential element at 'J-Schools' in the USA, UK and many other countries. But there are many perils, as well as pluses, in the public use of what many still think of as an essentially peer-group method of communication. This…
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Kenny EV sgt Pepper
In tribute to Kenny Everett, who died 20 years ago - on April 4th, 1995 - this is an off-air recording of him reviewing the just about to be released 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', on the BBC Light Programme's 'Where It's At', in May 1967. Within weeks, government legislation will have...
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BFBS Berlin May 82 chart
With all this talk of the music chart on Radio 1 being moved to Friday afternoons from its long-established Sunday slot, I've dug out a cassette of me revealing a new chart on forces' radio in 1982. For a long time the new chart was published late Tuesday morning and then broadcast by Radio 1…
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Moretti pod mix ed
This is an interview with Anthony Moretti from the Robert Morris University, near Pittsburgh, USA. He visited us - mainly to do guest lectures in the journalism department at Liverpool John Moores University - from March 7-14 2015. As well as being an 'ordinary' academic, Anthony is Director of...
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