Posts Tagged ‘ radio ’

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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Horse’s breakfast

Airbiscuit, our Panto Horse Grand National champion will be on the BBC WM breakfast show tomorrow morning (16th) at about ten to eight. He’ll be giving some of the WM entries a few tips (or misinformation probably) about how to race.

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Hale Hale Rock ‘n’ Roll

On 16th August BBC WM launches a new show dedicated entirely to new music in the Birmingham and the Black Country – and they’re looking for bands.

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fighting on the beaches

Adrian Goldberg, out of The Stirrer, has done a piece for Radio 4′s You and Yours all about the fight betwixt the council and the bullring over the two (count ‘em) fake beaches we’ll be getting in Brum this summer. It seems to have been treated as a bit of light relief from the Radio 4 lot – but raises a fine point about how it’ll look when we get the inevitable downpours (building site anyone?). Good to hear some Brummie voices on the radio, although Rich Batsford’s falsetto Beach Boys cover wasn’t as welcome as his amusing comments – the most disturbing part was hearing Council Leader Mike Whitby using the phrase ‘chill out’ on a couple of occasions. Cool Maaan. You’ll find a ‘Listen Again’ link here soon enough – it’s about 40 mins into the programme.

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BBC WM – What’s your favourite greasy spoon?

BBC WM – What’s your favourite greasy spoon?

Radio WM’s breakfast show are trying to find Brum’s best cafe. Phil Upton is sending a reporter out all week and then there’s yet another ‘pop idol’ type vote. Round here, leaving out Mr EGG (which surely qualifies for it’s own national yolk-based award), our favourite is “The Knife & Fork” on the Bristol Road. Also know as the Titanic Cafe: Photo by Matt Murtagh

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