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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Addition to VO Demos: Save The Primates
In January 2009, I was approached by Animal Defenders International to provide the English voice for a video depicting the plight of primates in laboratory experiments. There is an opportunity now for the European Union’s MEPs to adopt Europe-wide measures phasing out the use of apes and monkeys in these medieval and barbaric practices, and [...]
The Maya And The Arctic Meltdown
2007 is the year the Northwest Passage became navigable for the first time since records began; the year scientists predicted that arctic waters could be ice-free in summer within five or six years; the year the political temperature began rising over arctic resources ownership. What do the next five years hold for us? Much is [...]
Spend Flood Defence Cash Quicker
The additional money allocated for improving Britain’s flood defences must be spent sooner rather than later, or it will cost the nation much more in the long term, according to the Local Government Association (LGA). As I recently reported, in Somerset — where I live — our urgently needed flood defence improvements, for which there’s [...]
Somerset Flood Defences Put On Hold
I would have thought that in the wake of Britain’s worst summer floods in years, followed by today’s little panic about a storm surge running down England’s eastern coast, when strong north-easterly winds combined with the highest North Sea tide for fifty years to threaten hundreds of miles of our coastline — even the Thames [...]
Gore Gored By British Judge
From BBC News Online, Wednesday 10th October 2007: Gore climate film’s ‘nine errors’ A High Court judge who ruled on whether climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, could be shown in schools said it contains “nine scientific errors”. Mr Justice Burton said the government could still send the film to schools – if accompanied by [...]
UK Floods: The Crisis Deepens
As the flood waters continue to rise in the worst environmental disaster to hit Britain in a generation, the politicians are falling over themselves to assure us that everything that could be done was done prior to the deluge. After the flooding last week across Yorkshire, in Sheffield and Hull and other northern cities, towns [...]
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