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Steve Bowbrick
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  • Eight reasons The Proms is amazing

    The Proms is over for another season. It was my first as a member of the Radio 3 family and I’m a bigger fan than ever. Here’s why. It’s a journey. Over 80 concerts leading audiences (nearly a third of a million tickets were sold for the 2011 season) through the riches of the classical…

  • Seven things it’s worth remembering about Wikileaks

    Before its inglorious founder takes it down with him or before it’s chased off the Internet by enraged governments, it’s worth remembering what Wikileaks was before it became a cause celebre: It used to be a wiki. It stopped being a wiki in 2010. It was an anonymous drop-box. Whistleblowers could deposit documents without fear…

  • Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

    The Pussy Riot case is an affront to humanity, a miserable, dispiriting state-sponsored kicking for three angry free spirits. It’s so depressingly like the kind of relentless, malevolent crucifixion handed out to non-compliant creative people across the decades of Soviet rule it’s as if the country has lost its memory (Hari Kunzru has a post…

  • Last night in Studio 30C…

      [<a href=”http://storify.com/bowbrick/livelatejunction-a-snapshot-of-social-media-for-a” target=”_blank”>View the story “#LIVELATEJUNCTION – a snapshot of social media for a Radio 3 programme” on Storify</a>] This page originally hosted a Storify live blog recording a lovely episode of BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction. I sat in the studio and updated the page with social media, photos, videos from the studio…

  • Blimey. Look who’s on the fifth floor

    UPDATE: you might have noticed that the tweets, pics and stories from Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit promised in this post have gone, deleted when live blogging company Storify went bust… Here’s what’s left of the post: It was properly spine-tingling. Aung San Suu Kyi visited New Broadcasting House. As the news spread around the…

  • NTK: “exactly the same thing, 15 years late”

    Fifteen years ago, when it was all fields round here, Danny O’Brien and Dave Green – who were well-known in underground gaming/comedy/tech/confectionery circles – began to publish an email newsletter for and about the British tech community. It was a joy from the beginning – authentic, funny, playful, insightful… Geek storytelling that is probably already…

  • Boris Bike lessons

    Note: I’m not a proper cyclist. I don’t own a bicycle pump or a puncture repair kit. The Mayor of London takes care of all that for me. I have a Boris Bikes fob and I swan around on one of his sponsored blue bikes for a total of about three hours per week. But…

  • Bowblog is ten years old today

    I adapted the name from Kevin Werbach’s Werblog, which seemed like a cool thing to do at the time. I’d been blogging for a few years before that (since the twentieth century) but only fragments survive. The archive suggests I used to update it a lot more too – back before Twitter. Anyway, I’ll tweet…

  • Best job in Britain

    Last week I used one of the days of ‘community leave’ the BBC gives me to spend the day interviewing candidates for deputy head at the junior school in Hertfordshire where I’m chair of the governors. I was one of three governors on the panel, along with the school’s excellent head and our very brilliant…

  • I cold-called the man who invented the World Wide Web

    1984. I’m well into my fourth ‘gap year’ (in fact, I’m redefining the term ‘gap’). I’m working at a telesales place in Queen’s Park. This telesales place is different from the other dumps I worked at during the slack years, though – it’s run by a Californian cult whose working practices involve shouty ritual humiliation,…