Random radio jottings

The much respected Scottish broadcaster Tony Currie died at the weekend at his home in Port Ramsey on the Inner Hebridean island of Lismore....

Before Dead Ringers there was The Impressionists . Whilst Dead Ringers adopted the sketch format, and since its 2014 reboot, has been more...

It is now just over a month since BBC Radio 4 stopped broadcasting on long wave. In this post I’ll be picking up on one or two pieces about ...

It was a warm summer evening in 1960. Lord Montague, he of the Vintage Car Museum fame, was hosting the fifth jazz festival at Beaulieu Pala...

The sound of Roger Cook confronting yet another cowboy builder who lunges towards him to grab his microphone and stop the recording seems to...

After 102 years of broadcasting on the long wave and after forty-eight years of Radio 4’s presence on long wave the service closes on 27 Jun...

‘You take more holidays than Judith Chalmers’ or a sarcastic ‘does Judith Chalmers have a passport?’ was a reflection as to just how hard wi...