Posts Tagged ‘ BBC ’

Jury Service

Reg Eccles was chosen out of 100 people as a juror at the Birmingham pub bombings trial in the summer of 1975. Here’s an interview, longer than the version that made it to Radio 4′s PM.

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Birmingham city centre from the sky

It looks to have been a bit cloudy, but this 9 minute long film from a BBC helicopter certainly covers a lot of ground.

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Pebble Mill at One, by No Rock And Roll Fun

No Rock And Roll Fun is spending Sunday at Pebble Mill, digging up the oddest and best musical perfromances from the show from YouTube. They feature "pointless shots of the band performing, long-lens stylee, from outside the asbestos-riddled Birmingham HQ of the BBC; and a bored-looking audience sat in seats whose handrails give the impression of something between veal heading for slaughter and the world's worst rollercoaster."

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D’yer wanna be in moi gang?

For John Mostyn, the opening titles to Gangsters (filmed in Brum doncha know): Series two: Series one (embeding disabled, sods — it’s not as if _they_ made Gangsters, they just uploaded it to the interwebs).

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Long time listener, first time caller

Radio Five called me just as I was settling down to my tea on Friday, the producer of the Stephen Nolan show wanted to chat about the most recent of the irritating surveys about brummie accents. I’d been on before on TLABD, so I must be top of their contact sheet for “brummie that will do radio in the wee small hours”. Last time I went on I was still working for the Beeb so I made my own way to the studio and set myself up and so on, but now I don’t I was treated to the full “contributor” experience: taxis both was, a drink “a water only, Janice Long has drunk everything else” joked one of the Security guys. The Stephen Nolan show is from Manchester, so I was sat in a tiny studio in Brum on my own with nothing but a mic and a pair of “cans” (see I know all the terms) – I went in at about eleven pm, expecting to be on about ten past, but a voice came over the talkback “we’re talking about paedophiles on Facebook now, we’ll get to you for about  11:30″. So I popped out of...

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Costa Book of the Year award within grasp for Catherine O’Flynn

Having won the Costa first novel award, Catherine O’Flynn’s What was Lost is now in the running for the Costa Book of the Year award. The winner will be announced later today at a posh do in that London. This morning, BBC Breakfast had a feature on Catherine, who talked about her inspirations which include growing up in Nechells and a fondness for gas towers; and also a chat with her Birmingham-based publisher, Tindal Street Press. Fingers crossed for Catherine for tonight’s award!

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