Tag: radio
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Podcasting—welcome to the symphonic era
This is not about the 90% of podcasts that are still three people at a table talking about something. Nor is it about all those podcasts that are basically a…
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11 essentials for the modern podcast
This is one of a short series of posts about the evolution of podcasting. The first one’s about the new wave of ambitious, highly-produced storytelling formats – I’m calling it…
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Ian McMillan’s eight favourite podcasts
Radio 3’s Ian McMillan was on a special edition of the Radio Today podcast all about the station the other day. Turns out he’s a connoisseur of the podcast form.…
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What should really modern music radio sound like?
You hope it’ll be seamlessly social: a nice, natural flow from online to on-air and back again, with social features that are as confidently crafted as the on-air stuff. Not…
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Tension and release. My Bloody Valentine and building radio excitement without exclusives
Music radio’s all tension and release. Building anticipation – highs and lows strung together to keep things moving and bring listeners along with you. Mary Anne Hobbs’ breakfast show on…
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Noisy beds
I love a bed. I should leave it to a radio production expert to explain what I mean by a bed, but since I don’t have one to hand, a…
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Total radio – six reasons BBC Radio 3’s ‘Spirit of Schubert’ was awesome
The ‘Spirit of Schubert’ finished a week ago. It was Radio 3’s biggest ‘takeover’ yet – over 200 hours of output devoted exclusively to the work of Franz Schubert. Every…
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Steampunk radio on the Victorian Internet
A remarkable story about Victorian media innovation — Radio is changing. The first digital radio platform – DAB – is in danger of being eclipsed before most of us have…
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Allowing listeners to curate BBC radio
It was a quite brilliant weekend for BBC radio – so much good stuff that really stood out. Loads of radio that wasn’t just gripping, interesting, entertaining but was also…