Mar
24
World Have Your Say — Top 5 moments
March 24, 2017 | 1 Comment
I first heard of World Have Your Say towards the end of 2006 when an application to the BBC’s work experience web site was answered with an e-Mail asking if I’d be interested in doing a couple of weeks on WHYS. I was pretty pleased with that. Leaving an IT career for a journalism degree […]
Jun
22
In Praise of NHK World
June 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment
I don’t know exactly when NHK World came to the UK. I suspect it was in 2011 shortly after the tsunami hit Fukushima. I first noticed it on the Freesat service around August 2011 and I’ve been tuning in more and more frequently for the quirky delivery, refreshing bluntness of its reports, strict almost religious […]
Jan
24
Wolfsbane Reunited
January 24, 2012 | 1 Comment
Joy of joys. Tamworth’s finest metallers — Wolfsbane — are back together after God knows how long an absence. They have a new album which came out a couple of weeks ago: “Wolfsbane Saves the World”, check out great new track “Smoke and Red Light”. Wolfsbane aren’t yet on Spotify so for the first time in […]
Nov
20
Chief Tashka
November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
It’s not often you get to meet a real-life Amazonian Indian chief in the centre of London.
Nov
11
WHYS reviewed in the Telegraph
November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment
A review of the WS’ most fun programme, World Have Your Say: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6501080/World-Have-Your-Say-global-discussion-that-asks-the-unaskable.html Indeed, rather than telling his team to toe a PC line, Sandell instructs them to go and “ask the unaskableâ€.
Jul
2
BBC World Service wins again
July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment
BBC World Service won the award for best radio feature at tonight’s Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards in London. There was good competition not least from The World Tonight’s Paul Moss, the BBC’s own Will Ross and even Capital FM.
Jun
5
MeltBrown…
June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment
 It’s days like these that make quitting the world of Linux and non-pre-emptive NOS’ for the world of media so much fun . . .
May
12
Gold: World Service wins again
May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Hot on the heels of news that UK audiences for the World Service are up, comes the news of The World Today’s gold at the Sony Radio awards.