Tony Pilgrim
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Rescheduling Radio 4
The Film Programme moves to Thursdays starting next week when one of the guests is the writer and director of film classic Withnail and I, Bruce Robinson, director of new release The Rum Diary. As Paul Murphy posted earlier this week, next Monday sees the start of The World At One's exten...
Schedule busting for election 2010
When to stay with the story and when to leave it and get back to business as usual? This is the question we have been asking quite a lot at Radio 4 over the past few days. And as many of you will know, on a number of occasions we have stayed with the story, extending news coverage and displacing...
Morpurgo reads Sassoon on PM
In the hour or so before Prime Minister's Questions today, MPs were invited to another event. In one of the Commons' committee rooms, the National Heritage Memorial Fund announced it was donating half a million pounds to save the collection of Siegfried Sassoon's private diaries and pocket noteb...
Scheduling Radio 4
The first in a series of posts from Tony Pilgrim, explaining what on earth a Radio 4 Head of Planning and Scheduling does. It is becoming easier to find and play or store and share radio programmes in the way that you want to, when you want to (podcasts, for instance). But listening live is sti...
