Random radio jottings

Tomorrow morning BBC Radio 4 will, for the last time, broadcast the early morning News Briefing . A fixture of Radio 4’s schedule for nearly...

Conch (noun) a thick heavy spiral shell occasionally bearing long projections of various marine gastropod molluscs of the family Strombidae...

When Winston Churchill died on 24 January 1965 the BBC went into full obit mode, a special Radio Times supplement printed and plans made to ...

It’s the final Sarah Ward Collection on Jazz FM this evening as Sarah ‘steps back’ from the weekly show after seven decades in broadcasting...

This coming Saturday (28 December) BBC Radio 4 Extra is going to party like its 1964. For day only, all the programmes between 6am and 10pm ...

Ninety years ago on Christmas Day 1934, King George V was at Sandringham House preparing to make his broadcast to Britain and the Empire. Ju...

In May 2012 I wrote about the BBC World Service request show hosted by Sandi Jones and ended the post by writing “I've no recordings of...