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Latest delicious thoughts

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delicious thoughts for April 20th from 03:25 to 08:51:

  • Jarvis Cocker – I like this – stick with it and watch Jarvis Cocker assemble his name in a graphic style
  • Internet Archive – More archive stuff – could this become an obsession?
  • BBC Archive – This is a treasure trove. I could spend hours in this corner of the BBC website, listening to recordings of programmes that reveal our national heritage. The first hand account of a senior officer on board the Titanic on the night she sank is riveting. The archive also includes internal documents, letters and notes. Fascinating stuff.
  • The untold story: a journey into the BBC archives –

Breakthru Radio Session – The Puncture Repair Kit

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Myspace.com Blogs – Breakthru Radio Session – The Puncture Repair Kit MySpace Blog

 

The Puncture Repair Kit

The Puncture Repair Kit

This is my son, Matthew’s, band recorded in a live session on Breakthrough Radio in Norwich. 

 

 

 

 

Their next gig is at:

 11 Sep 2008 20:00
The Gramaphone w/ The All New Adventures Of Us Spitalfields, London

Waugh at the BBC: the most ill-natured interview ever

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The most ill-natured interview ever on CD after 55 years | guardian.co.uk

Evelyn Waugh

He was a novelist known for his quick and cruel wit, his wide-eyed opinions and his indifference about saying the shocking. So a BBC Home Service programme called Frankly Speaking in which Evelyn Waugh is quizzed by three abrasive questioners was never going to be a walk in the country. Today what was later described as the most ill-natured interview ever broadcast can be heard for the first time since 1953.

This is more like an inquisition than a radio interview. I have no idea why three professional broadcasters should subject him to such an inane line of questioning. It reminds me of some disastrous job interviews I’ve endured. Perhaps Waugh was unwittingly being lined up for a job at the Beeb rather than for a broadcast. At least his sense of humour didn’t desert him.

Asked what failings in others he could most readily excuse Waugh replies quickly: “Drunkenness.” Any others? “Em [long pause] … anger. Lust. Dishonouring their father and mother. Coveting their neighbours ox, ass, wife. Killing. I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshipping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.”

BBC – North Yorkshire – Sony Award Nomination

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Bedtime StoriesBBC – North Yorkshire – Entertainment – The Best Bedtime Book

Last year, BBC Radio York ran a Bedtime Stories Writing Competition. The standard of the entries was so high, we’ve created a book out of the top eight, which we’re selling to raise money for Children in Need. Here’s how you can get hold of one.

My old radio station has been nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award for their Bedtime Stories in the Multiplatform section.

Congratulations to the team, and all the best on the awards nights in the glittering setting of the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.

I think the highlight of my BBC career was standing on the stage there to receive the Sony Gold Award in the Community section for our service during the Floods of 2000.

Give Chris Evans the chancellors’ job

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David Cameron’s first criticism of the budget speech was that it was delivered with all the enthusiasm of someone reading out the telephone directory. So I assume he thinks the job should be given to a presenter.

Chris Evans
Chris Evans

I switched off – that’s the prerogative of a listener – assuming that, as the opposition leader’s prime criticism, there was little to follow.

Presentation over content is the scourge of the modern age. Make your talk glitzy enough and no one will notice you have nothing to say.

David Cameron

So if David Cameron is elected to power and you want to be Chancellor now would be a good time to put in some broadcasting hours to up your game. Or perhaps David Cameron himself should be given a radio show of his own. If he wants even more popularity he should be a gameshow host, “Vote or No Vote“, or “Who wants to be a Millionaire Tax Exile” with a “Giveaway Budget Jackpot“. The audience figures would be a painful gauge of his popularity.

This is not a defence of Alistair Darling’s budget, just another example of how easily David Cameron can get up ones nose, in the same league as Noel Edmunds and Chris Tarrant.