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 unaskable”.

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.

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