Year: 2010
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Amazing Radio – an interview with Trevor Dann
[You might want to know: when I wrote this I worked at BBC Radio (and still do!) but these are the opinions of a civilian radio nut and not those…
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The XX on working together
6 Music ran a lovely series of programmes about this year’s Mercury nominees. They did a simple thing and recorded the artists introducing the tracks, describing the inspiration and the…
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Twitter as service monitor
How do you monitor broadcast output on FM, LW (MW in some areas), two DAB frequencies, LW and FM channels for digital TV on Virgin cable, Sky satellite, Freeview and…
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Autotuning Seasick Steve
My twelve year-old remixed a Seasick Steve tune, complete with autotune. It’s awesome.
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Adam Savage from Mythbusters
What I love about Adam Savage is his laugh. On Mythbusters, which I watch a lot (I have children under 12), he’s the riotous, uninhibited, self-actualiser – and he laughs…
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The fifth emergency service
19 June 2017 UPDATE: I’ve just taken down the picture of my staff pass that sat at the top of this post – I’ve been advised that these days it’s…
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Three reasons #PromsXHQ is important
April 2022 UPDATE: the super-high-quality PromsXHQ stream went on to replace the standard Radio 3 online stream for all output and, if you listen on BBC Sounds these days you’re…
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Make My Pano now
Pano is an iPhone app. It stitches together the photos you take to make fantastically compelling panoramas. I’ve developed an unhealthy obsession with Pano and a lot of the pics…
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Really suffering for your art
Everyone says music is getting more physical again. We continue to get our daily sounds from ever more insubstantial sources, floating above us like those glittering landscapes in Neuromancer, but…
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Being proud of the BBC
People have been talking about being proud of the BBC lately and I clearly can’t join in, since I work there and I’m inevitably partial. But, as I still feel…