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Radio 4 Extra: Frankly Speaking
Caroline Raphael
Commissioning Editor, Radio 4 & 4 Extra
Frankly Speaking was considered 'risky' and 'unkempt' when it originally aired in the 1950s. Now, as Radio 4 Extra rebroadcasts a selection of high profile interviews from the series, Caroline Raphael sheds light on an archive jewel …
Radio Apprentices: Bringing New Audiences to Speech Radio
Radio 4
Radio apprentices: bringing new audiences to speech radio
A history of private life
Elizabeth Burke
I first met Amanda Vickery ten years ago - her book, 'The Gentleman's Daughter' had just been published, and she gave an interview to our local paper. Something about the interview made me think she would be good on the radio - her liveliness and her sense of fun came across, even in a print int...
Twice Ken is Plenty - the lost script of Kenneth Williams
Wes Butters
It was thirty-nine pages of green paper, a carbon-copy, in amongst hundreds of scripts and notes I'd bought from a young man in Devon. In late 2005 he'd listed on eBay a framed photograph that his description claimed had once belonged to Kenneth Williams. The starting bid was 99p, there were no ...
When Harry met Sally at 20
Sarah Churchwell
Editor's note - Sarah Churchwell is writer and presenter of yesterday's When Harry met Sally at 20. I asked her to tell us more about her subject - SB. The only difficult thing about writing a script - or indeed a blog post - about When Harry Met Sally and its place in the genealogy of American...
Being multiplatform
Jennifer Clarke
It used to be so simple when people asked what I do. "I work for the BBC," I would say. "I'm a radio producer, making programmes for Radio 4." Simple. But since last summer, it's not been quite such a straightforward question to answer. "I'm a senior multiplatform producer." Cue puzzled look. ...
Who would you like to hear from on the blog?
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
The blog is picking up momentum. In addition to regular posts from our Controller (35 posts so far - about six per month) we've had 128 posts all together, from programme makers, presenters, commissioners, managers and even a handful of outsiders (like yesterday's lovely post by Margie Tunbridge...
This is the last fox post. Honest.
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
And finally, photographs of the White City vandal, the urban fox that trashed the offices of Crossing Continents and The Report, waiting in the RSPCA's special cage, to be taken away and released. Released 'nearby' I'm told. Does that sound wise to you? Given this fox's demonstrated resourcefuln...
Foxes wreck Radio 4 offices
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Jennifer Clarke (of this parish) and Hugh Levinson from the department that makes Moneybox and Analysis sent me these pics taken in their office on the first floor of BBC White City, the big, grey fortress on Wood Lane (and home to the Director General). A fox gained entry (nobody saw it but it ...
Robin Lustig's week
Robin Lustig
Editor's note: We're trying something new. Every Friday afternoon during the Summer we're going to publish a diary post from an important Radio 4 personality. We're starting with Robin Lustig, presenter of The World Tonight since 1989. If you'd like to hear from a particular Radio 4 personality ...
