In the first of a new series of blog posts, I recall my early days and the circumstances that gave me a passion for radio — beginning with the pirate stations of the 1960s … On Monday the 14th of August 1967, at just after three o’clock in the afternoon, I sat alone in my [...]
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Selected Tweets – Week Ending 2010-09-05
Monday 30th August 2010 BBC News – UN climate change panel to face Himalaya error verdict http://bbc.in/cb3iVD # BBC News – Double meteorite strike caused dinosaur extinction http://bbc.in/cw5Tmc <Like buses – none for ages, then two come along at once! # BBC News – Dry weather reveals archaeological 'cropmarks' in fields http://bbc.in/cu3FFk # Walk Pic [...]
Selected Tweets – Week Ending 2010-08-29
BBC News – Why the US keeps minting coins people hate and won't use http://bit.ly/9cBkZf #onlyinamerica # BBC News – Rice yields falling under global warming http://bit.ly/bbdhPt # BBC News – BBC staff lose laptops and mobiles worth £240k http://bit.ly/aW1rwC < Good heavens! Get a grip, Beeb! # BBC News – New search in Worcestershire [...]
Radio Daze: Bedroom Broadcasting
In this post about my life in radio, we’re still in 1970. I graduate from being a solo radio nut — I cement my friendship with a soul-mate from school, and together we embark upon an adventuresome period which begins with turning his bedroom into a pirate radio station … My new-found school friend Bill [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-09
@Corrina1203 Hi Poppet! Yup, a good week away – dodged most showers! Wheely bin the worst for us – got to get car out to drag it out! lol in reply to Corrina1203 # BBC News – ITV to launch HD channels on Sky http://bit.ly/c8G0DG # @llamakevin This is true – you'd better get it [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-02
@HappyHippyMum We're staying for the week at Penrhos Golf & Country Club, Llanrhystud – in a static caravan, using it as a base in reply to HappyHippyMum # Morning all! Hey, not raining here as I expected it to be – the day is looking up! # We're at Borth – in the rain! # [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-26
Fed up with dwindling interest rates on your savings? Join SAVE OUR SAVERS now! http://www.saveoursavers.co.uk/home.aspx @SaveOurSavers # BBC News – Savers join forces to fight the interest rate plunge http://bit.ly/ahqGU4 # BBC – dot.Rory: "Twitter and Scientology: Don't use the 'S'-word" ('stupid', that is) http://bit.ly/bnL3lv #stupidscientology # BT hikes call charges • The Register http://bit.ly/aBMVWw [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-19
@joonieb ALL MINE mrs bobski is away till Friday, I'm home alone … and therefore stuffing myself with forbidden fruits while I can in reply to joonieb # @davcar11 Ha, I didn't think you were a #bb11 watcher – if they keep on with this pointless arguing, I might not be for much longer! lol [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-12
Completed some more station idents for GaGa Radio Corfu! http://www.gagaradio.com/ #VO # The station idents I completed yesterday for Network North Devon are now live at http://www.network1radio.co.uk/player5.html #VO # Morning all! To Swanage, Dorset, on a coach trip today! Just leaving Weston – sun getting brighter as we go # Coffee time (@ Brimsmore Garden [...]
Radio Daze: Interlude #1 — From This Perspective
Some of you may be wondering why this series of memoirs about my life in radio hasn’t grown since October 2009, after the second part was published. Let me reassure you that it will, and very soon now. But before I move on, here’s an explanation for the delay … “Write about what you know,” [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-05
@voiceovergirl Did you get your overnight rain? We did in reply to voiceovergirl # BBC Sport – F1 – European GP damages F1 credibility – Ferrari President http://bit.ly/b5HiT1 < Another pointless winge from Montezemolo! # @orphistic Italian passion combined with a deep sense of inferiority when not getting their way = Ferrari in reply to [...]
