Archive for the ‘Features’ Category
17th Century News
What if a radio studio was sent back to September 6th 1666? What would they say?
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Two Plus One Makes Perfect
In an age when people have never had so much control over how many children they have, why is it that so many are choosing to have just one?
I talked to my good friend and mother of one, Helen, to find out what affect, if any, this life of singular attention has had on her son Dominic…
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Stop and Smell the Orchids
Andrea Miller takes a look at this diverse, though sometimes under-appreciated flower.
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Shit Art Desert Island
The contemporary artist Ryan Gander in conversation with Emily King, co-curator of the Wouldn’t it be nice… exhibition that ran at Embankment Galleries, London, between September and December 2008, on the themes of artistic practice, regrets and desert islands. Ryan was recently nominated for the Times/South Bank Show Breakthrough Award 2009, and is hotly tipped by art-world insiders for future Turner Prize glory.
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A Celebration of Radio Comedy
A report from the Radio Academy event ‘A Celebration of Comedy’ held on the 18th March 2009 in the Gibson building in Central London. It includes interviews with Barry Cryer, Jon Holmes, Steve Punt and Adrian Juste and clips from Round the Horn, Dead Ringers and a prank call to LBC.
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Livvy Wants a Mobile
An estimated 52% of all five to nine year olds now own a mobile phone. So how long can I hope to deflect my ten year old’s constant pestering to be plugged into the tele-comms world?
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Lament to Foxie
26th November 2008 saw the 5th Anniversary of the final flight of Concorde.
Concorde 216 (Alpha-Foxtrot, more affectionately known as “Foxie”) was the last Concorde to be built and the last Concorde to fly, back to her birthplace of Filton. There was a great interest when this happened. Television stations went live to the take-off and landing, many tears were shed, and people talked of how it was the end of an era or “a giant leap backwards for mankind”. But what of the machine itself? For twenty-seven years British Airways flew Concorde as their flagship. Then one day, no-one came to its hanger, vacuumed her carpets, or prepared it to fly. How would did it react to that? How did it feel not to be wanted. Sarah Horsley (an avid Concorde fan) tries to imagine how Concorde felt after its retirement, along with the recording from the cockpit as Alpha-Foxtrot taxied to the runway for the last time, with emotional farewell messages from the tower, airport operations and ground control. Although the recording between the cockpit and tower and others at Heathrow airport before the final flight is played to visitors at Filton when they embark on the tour of Alpha-Foxtrot, it is not something that is well known.
This piece aims to bring this recording to light and remind the audience that many people thought of Concorde as more than a collection of aluminium and bolts.
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Give Blood Advertisement
This is an audio advertisement based on a genuine brief given by the National Blood Service.
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Formula One Preview
Formula One Preview
A quick look ahead to the 2009 Formula One season, with a guide to the new rule changes, the new circuits and the drivers to watch in 2009.
Of course every prediction is probably wrong so watch out for the follow-up…
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Fashion Show Crunch
Follow me to look at the fashion show “crunch” in Bournemouth University.