Blog posts by year and monthJune 2009
Posts (20)
Responding to big stories at Radio 4
We've thrown things up in the air in recent days in a bid to respond to two big stories - MPs' expenses and the disputed Iranian election. Last Thursday evening John Simpson did 'The Report' - our new Current Affairs strand. He spoke about what it was like reporting from Iran this month before ...
Breakfast with the Beeb - a New Yorker's view of Radio 4
Editor's note: here's a lovely thing. A consideration of Radio 4 from a New Yorker. Rebecca Dalzell does that fascinating thing: she makes something familiar strange again - as if we were reading about it for the first time. Her piece appeared on a New York web site called The Morning News. I wr...
Visualising Material World
We're experimenting this week. Material World - our weekly science programme presented by Quentin Cooper - will be accompanied, live, by some pictures. It will not be television and I won't reveal exactly how it will work - but give it a try. The visuals will stay up for several days after the p...
Reith 2009 in the Twitterverse
As I've explained in my previous blog posts, the 2009 Reith Lectures team was keen to extend the reach of the programmes beyond the traditional Radio 4 and World Service listeners. A key part of our strategy was social networking site Twitter. We wanted to find people already talking about Pro...
Music music music
Stan Was, a producer in the Radio 4 presentations department (and practically the in-house photographer - you'll see lots of his work in the Radio 4 pool on Flickr.com) was present in the Loose Ends studio Saturday and took some lovely pics of the two bands on the show: The Mummers and Smoke Fai...
ISIHAC on the Comedy blog
David Thair, editor of the BBC Comedy blog, has a nice post about the first post-Humph recording of Radio 4 comedy treasure I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, with three lovely pics and a clip. Read the post and leave your comments here...
How moderation works on the PM blog
Paul Wakely is a member of the BBC's central moderation team. He manages BBC staff and outsourced suppliers who moderate 10,000 comments per day on the BBC messageboards and blogs. From 1400-1600 today Paul will be on the PM blog - where it's a pretty hot topic - answering questions about moder...
Honey cake help!
Editor's note: I know I said that the Farming Today bees were off to their own blog a little while ago but we've now decided that they should stay here, on the Radio 4 blog, for the rest of the season. We've grown attached to them (and we like the honey). And, in a follow-up email, Charlotte app...
The George Orwell collection
Editor's note: The pace is really picking up over at BBC Archives. Since I asked Steve Darling to write this post about the George Orwell collection, two further collections have been published: Princess Elizabeth: the making of a Queen and Arena: Miller meets Mandela. The BBC archive collectio...
Nick Clarke interview prize
Update: details of how to enter an interview for the award and the competition rules are now here. The closing date for this year's award is 4 August. Nick Clarke was a great Radio 4 broadcaster. He died far far too young in late 2006 and is remembered by many of us - and I am sure many of you ...
