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The Slanket of Con: Origins
Clugston and Corfield
Martha Kearney in the Slanket of Con. Martha subsequently tweeted: "I have reached the pinnacle of my career thanks to Corrie Corfield..." Editor's note: Some of you will be familiar with the Slanket of Con, some of you will have no idea what's going on. I first saw it being discussed onli...
"The most extraordinary thing I've ever been asked to do"
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
You'll know Kathy Clugston's voice. She reads the news on Radio 4 (and plays the ukulele). Knowing her as you do, you probably won't be surprised to learn that she's now a star of the Edinburgh Fringe too. She's just returned from a week in Scott Mills the Musical - the unlikely hit that David H...
Music music music
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
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...
That's easy for you to say...
Susan Rae
ANNOUNCERS' WEEK: DAY FIVE Many years ago, there was a rookie girl announcer reading the travel news on Radio 4. There was a spot of bother near Towcester, which she confidently names Toe-chester. The phone rang. Peter Donaldson (for it was he) said: "It's Toaster, dear girl, as in pop-up". The...
Announcers have super-powers
Alan Smith
ANNOUNCERS' WEEK: DAY FOUR Friends are always telling me I have the best job in the world. "You spend your entire working day listening to Radio4!" they say. Well, that's true, but only partly true. You see, we hear the programmes, but not in the same way we would at home. All the announcers ha...
Book at Bedtime? I wish!
Diana Speed
ANNOUNCERS' WEEK: DAY THREE The real book at bedtime for the Radio 4 announcer is our Book of the Week at half past midnight. By this time we are entering the last quarter hour of our late shift and the part that is arguably the busiest for us. If you're familiar with the end of our day's tra...
Four minutes. Exactly.
Charles Carroll
ANNOUNCERS' WEEK: DAY TWO There are some things on Radio 4 that you only notice when they go wrong. For continuity announcers the potential for things to unravel is never more than a stone's throw away, but it edges just a little bit closer each day at midday. This is when we split the output b...
Being told off by James Naughtie
Kathy Clugston
ANNOUNCERS' WEEK: DAY ONE 3.30AM The alarm goes off, but it doesn't bother me. That's because I'm already staring at it. In fact, I've been staring at it on-and-off since about two o'clock, when I jolted awake after a horrible dream in which I overslept until half past seven, raced in to find R...
Announcers' Week
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
We launched the Radio 4 blog back in February with a post by Controller Mark Damazer called 'And now on Radio 4' - a phrase you'd have heard about 13,500 times in the last year if you'd managed to listen to every programme transmitted. So it seems only right that every day this week you'll be ab...
Advance warning: the announcers are coming
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Starting tomorrow, it's 'Announcers' Week' on the blog. Each day, for the whole week, I'll bring you a post from one of Radio 4's announcers - the preternaturally calm crew who sit at the eye of the network's daily storm of news and comedy and weather and documentaries and drama (and the shippin...
