Blog posts by year and monthFebruary 2012
Posts (28)
Saturday Live
Saturdays feel different on Radio 4 and that mood is caught by Saturday Live. Whether it is the Inheritance Tracks or the poem or that interview, there is always something that makes me look up from my morning coffee and stop reading the FT magazine. So much so that I began to feel the pr...
Leap for PM
Today is a very special day. Like Oliver Reed in his heyday, it comes round only once every four years. Sandwiched precariously between 28 February and 1 March, it creates children of adults and newlyweds of couples who've been together for years. People who are born or get married on 29 Febr...
In Our Time newsletter: Conductors and Semiconductors
Editor's note: In Thursday's programme Melvyn Bragg and his guests discussed the Conductors and Semiconductors and the physics of electrical conduction. As always the programme is available to listen to online or to download and keep - PM. Hello That was a tough one if your knowl...
Feedback: Radio and pluggers
Feedback's presenter Roger Bolton George Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury has been called many things, not least by gay couples who want to get married and who find in Dr Carey an implacable opponent. This week, however, he was outed as a plugger. One Feedback listener cla...
The Art of Monarchy: The Royal Collection in Context
Editor's note: To coincide with the Art of Monarchy, the Radio 4 blog is running a series of posts by the Royal Collection's curators on different aspects of the collection. In this post Rufus Bird considers Royal art in context - CM. As a curator I am faced with considering the pl...
Shelagh Delaney on Radio 4 Extra
Shelagh Delaney in 1961 Originally from Salford, Shelagh Delaney was just 19 when her first play, A Taste of Honey, was first produced at Theatre Royal Stratford East in 1958. It was an immediate sensation. Her funny, sharp dialogue, vivid characters, the uncompromising picture of youn...
What Time Is it Eccles?
Spike from The Goon Show, 1958 Classical music in the morning, jazz in the afternoons, half an hour for lunch (battenburg or a danish) and to open the French windows and talk to the birds. The Magic Roundabout at five to six and then a bath. "The public perception of Spike is this sc...
The More Than Words Listening Festival
The Radio 4 More Than Words Listening Festival takes place in Bristol on March 16th, 17th and 18th this year. It's a celebration of sound, storytelling and the art of listening but also a celebration of a unique and enduring partnership with the city. In 1934 the Lord Mayor of Bristol, one He...
Family quiz "Keep It In The Family" on Radio 4 Extra
Ed's note: Fred MacAulay is a regular guest on many Radio 4 panel games, most notably on The News Quiz. But this week and next, he's sitting on the other side of the mic, hosting The 4 O'Clock Show's brain-teasing Keep It In The Family. Each day, two parent and child combinations (mum and son, g...
Feedback: The Moral Maze
I think that one of the most terrifying things I have done in broadcasting is to chair the Moral Maze. It can't have been much fun for the audience either, I'm sure they preferred Michael Buerk, who is very rarely absent from the presenter's chair as he values this programme as much as any he...
