Catching up on more than a day of unheard listening is taking some time. It’s easy to go for the guaranteed hits – WireTap before work on a Monday, for instance. Some iPod blue dots take more courage to listen …Read the Rest

Weeee! Off to Leipzig today, for the EBU/Prix Europa/Leipziger-Medienstiftung Think Tank on Radio in the Digital Age. Lots of good (and short) thought pieces to read on it here. Also had a look at the weather forecast. Flurries, and the …Read the Rest

I spent a sunny hour in autumnal Green Park yesterday with a keen and experienced practitioner of Yoga. And I spent an hour ironing shirts today while listening to Hearing Voices. And the point: some of us meditate; some of …Read the Rest

Plenty of Formula 1 teams do podcasting. And in a sport that relies on marketing to keep glamorous and wealthy, the tendency is to bring a company in and sound as slick and professional as possible. Unfortunately this often means …Read the Rest

A Radio 4 programme written and presented by Joseph O’Connor presents the risk of infuriation and a huge listening boost for Classic FM, but I think they pulled it off here. This review is much longer than usual, because Irish …Read the Rest

It would be surprising if Studio 360, the world’s best produced pop-culutre programme, hadn’t reacted to the killing of Osama bin Laden. After all, the most common reaction on 9/11 was, as they pointed out “I turned on the TV …Read the Rest

What great potential the inside story from inside the ministerial cars holds! Though with a bit of thought, it was never going to be quite full of fascination. From the stiff and starched opening we knew this was, after all, …Read the Rest

Podcasts from the Financial Times are fairly well established, and not insignificant in volume. They probably have made a reasonable difference to the standing of podcasts among older, more powerful demographics. On the whole they match the paper’s image and …Read the Rest