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Book Club: The Travelling Hornplayer
We heard a ghost story from our author on this month’s Bookclub. Barbara Trapido was talking about her novel The Travelling Hornplayer, which begins with the following sentence: ‘Early on the morning of my interview, I woke up and saw my dead sister.’
Alice through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll's fantastical story collides with Radio 4 in Stephen Wyatt's dramatisation.
The appeal is well under way
Sunday, December 6th: Appeal day. The taxi drops me at St Martin's before 0700. It's dark, it's raining, and I notice two men sheltering with their belongings as best they can on the steps of the church. Into the office to switch on computers and a last-minute test of the phones. I like to desc...
Book at Beachtime with Freya North
Editor's note: Freya North's book Rumours is featured in Radio 4 Extra's Book at Beachtime starting on Monday 9 July at 2.30pm on BBC Radio 4 Extra. AI. Research is a true perk of my job and, as Rumours is set around the potential sale of a stately home, I had the incredible opport...
Big Ben bongs
Big Ben is iconic and plays a crucial role here at BBC Radio 4 at various key time points during the day. So, there has been much discussion about what to do when Big Ben falls silent from Monday 21 August, while the clock tower undergoes refurbishment.
Bringing old favourites to life: illustrating Radio 4 drama
A while back I posted about why we use illustrations on iPlayer for key radio programming (on the BBC Internet blog). In short we want to avoid galleries of largely unknown faces which don't really hook the listener as much as a well-executed illustration. When we come to illustrate dramas whic...
