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Ah, the British corner shop. My mum used to hand me a crumpled ten-shilling note and send me to the one at the end of our road to fetch three rashers of bacon and ten Park Drive Tipped. As I pushed open the red door, a bell would ring – and little Mrs Cooper would pop up behind a little counter and…

A friend from Capital recently told me the story of a call he'd aired between him and a teenage girl. He’d spoken to her in the way good presenters do. Next day, her mother called in to the station bearing gifts. It transpired that the girl was being bullied because of her accent. Kids pick up …

The dirty world of audience targeting reared its head in the context of BBC local radio last November (Nov 2017).  Maybe the DG's speech has been misinterpreted, and I think I can see how his objectives could have been in the context of the vision outlined and the occasion at which the speech w…

How wonderful it is that radio is once again dominating the headlines. This quiet giant has been so often overlooked. Despite around nine out of ten adults spending almost a full day a week of their lives with it, and forming a relationship unrivalled by any other medium, it’s rarely credited with …