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Happy 50th birthday Youssou N'Dour from loiswakeman 11 days old

A treat for world music fans that I caught in the wee small hours on the BBC World Service: an interview with the immensely charming and (I think) talented ...

Hurry - your last chance to hear... from loiswakeman 87 days old

[ ... ] the tune from "Listen with Mother"; and many others. But hurry - the broadcast ends at about 11 tonight. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00m68x7

Poetry - please! from loiswakeman 311 days old

If you have the time in the next few days, I do urge you to listen again to the interview with Jen Hadfield, winner of this year's TS Eliot Prize, on ...

Local Hero - happy 25th birthday from loiswakeman 367 days old

Good grief - I'm losing my grip - another complimentary post about the Beeb! Tonight, Mark Kermode and Bill Forsyth are visiting the location of possibly ...

Let there be light from loiswakeman 371 days old

[ ... ] I thought. On the BBC iplayer now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fm1vb/Imagine_Let_There_Be_Light/ A jewel adrift in a sea of dross.

Gibbons, where are you when we need you? from loiswakeman 388 days old

[ ... ] the BBC should develop a reality show based on gladiatorial combat, so we can laugh helplessly while unfortunates are hacked to death for our ...

78, not out from loiswakeman 393 days old

Listening to Today on the radio this morning, I was brought up short. Nicola Stanbridge was interviewing Andy Walter about EMI's "bizarre" world music ...

Public service broadcasting? from loiswakeman 424 days old

[ ... ] the BBC can justify such trivia as being of public benefit (or is it a sinister plot to turn our brains to cheese so we stop challenging them when ...

Pirate or PR agent? from loiswakeman 555 days old

On Saturday, I was reading an article in the Grauniad about how some savvy manufacturers (including Nike) take advantage of fan and derivative products ...

Flogging a dead horse from loiswakeman 601 days old

The dead thing in question is not equine, but a frequently reported corpse. Yesterday on the Today Programme, the lovely Charlotte Green was reduced ...