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Isn't it great being on air when it snows.  You feel as though you are running the World.  You are in control of the information - and telling listeners where they can and cannot go, and what they can and cannot do. This is a moment when radio really comes into its own. No other media is quite …

I’m always popping in to my friendly local EE shop to change tariffs or buy yet another Apple device.  The other day, the skinny semi-bearded assistant in his polo shirt popped off to get my latest shiny grey iPad from the stockroom – before returning and sliding it gently out its tight-fitting whi…

When the bongs of Little John rang out on BBC Radio Nottingham on the final day of January 1968, no-one knew what the future would hold for this new BBC local radio service in the City.   Fifty years ago, Auntie was dipping her toe in local radio waters with what she dubbed ‘an experiment’, much to…

New Year 2018. Everyone is ill. Across the land, new radio station programme schedules are trumpeted. Corporate press releases tell us how ‘delighted’ the new smiling presenters are at their appointment; and the ones they replaced are congratulated for all their good work as they crawl around to fi…

Voice-tracking is the devil. The scourge of our industry. The thing that has de-humanised this once exciting living, breathing thing called radio.  That would probably have been my view a few years ago as a spiky-haired awkward jock. Now, I believe it’s none of those things. Done well, it provides …