Broadcast Audio

Ronan Kelly Showcase

25/04/2011
Appreciation

“Did ya?!” is a trade-mark question of Ronan Kelly‘s work. What a lovely man. He makes programmes talking to people. He makes people very comfortable to talk with him. I know, because my “15 minute chat” with him for In …Read the Rest

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Chinese F1 Grand Prix 2004

13/04/2011
Broadcast Audio

It’s the Formula 1 Grand Prix of China in Shanghai this weekend. The first Chinese Grand Prix year, 2004, was also my first in professional radio. My F1 knowledge and enthusiasm had earned me a journalist pass to the circuit …Read the Rest

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Angus Graham: A Profile

09/05/2010
Audio

Tada! The first new audio I’m posting here for quite a while: Angus Graham, A Profile. Angus Graham (1919 – 1991) was professor of Classical Chinese at SOAS. For more on him, please listen to the programme :-) The intended …Read the Rest

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In The Beginning: Sumer

04/05/2010
Audio

Exclusive Preview! No seriously, this is an exclusive preview. This will be episode two of In The Beginning, a series I’ve worked on at OpenAir.fm. The series isn’t ready for the off yet, but this one is, and I’m kinda …Read the Rest

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Endangered Language – Kagulu

02/03/2010
Audio

My first item for SOAS Open Air is now online – here. The blurb goes like this: SOAS researcher Malin Petzell introduces Kagulu, a language in Tanzania that is being squeezed by the state-promotion of Swahili. Hear the musicality and …Read the Rest

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Preparing to leave school

20/01/2010
Audio

Another from the archive. This was my first non-news item broadcast on Radio New Zealand National, and was a training exercise with the head of their Factual & Documentaries unit, Jack Perkins. This is from something like November 2007.

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Aylesbury Estate – “dragons’ den”

01/12/2009
Audio

Here’s an item I’ve just made with rookie Janny Ji at London Chinese Radio. It’s about a Dragons’ Den-style event held by the local New Deal for Communities body, the Creation Trust. It’s bilingual, mostly in English but with some …Read the Rest

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The Wreck of the Penguin

24/11/2009
Audio

I made this for Radio New Zealand National early in 2008. Never got a contract so I would like to keep it hear-able so here it is! Still, please do not redistribute, edit or broadcast this episode, without getting it …Read the Rest

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Beginnings (sort of)

09/05/2008
Appreciation

A recent post to the Radio Lab blog reveals the first ever piece made by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich [Update: new link for that post]. It rather wonderfully reminded me of a piece I made myself. This is the …Read the Rest