Aug 8, 2015 audio remix of the 2009 Women’s Aid advert – the question being answered, does the music track increase the impact of the advert? Trigger warning – if you are affected by this film please visit http://www.womensaid.org.uk where you can find support. Keira Knightley stars in this shocking new short film, directed by…
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Weather – You wear it well
imagine the weather was the same everyday – no variety? boring.
We’re All Alone – Boz Scaggs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-MsVZrTQEU 1976 We’re All Alone – Boz Scaggs Outside the rain begins And it may never end So cry no more On the shore a dream Will take us out to sea For ever more For ever more Close your eyes ami And you can be with me ‘Neath the waves Through the caves of…
Oliver’s Army
“lower-class unemployed white people had lived for years in appalling slums without a breakdown of public order on anything like the present scale”. Oliver Letwin writing to Margaret Thatcher blocking aid to black communities in 1985 after the Broadwater Farm and Tottenham riots. “A riot is the language of the unheard” Martin Luther King. Perhaps…
Only the strong survive
On May 18th 2015 it will be 30 years since my first radio show. Now I don’t have a date for when I first fell in love with radio but it preceded 1985 by a good bit. Thinking of those early days of radio I think of my record box – I didn’t have many…
Ripping the radio news
Does anyone remember when Eamonn Cooke & Radio Dublin would rip the 8am news off RTE Radio 1. This was in the days before Morning Ireland. The news pips would chime and Radio Dublin would take the news feed from RTE while Nova & Sunshine were staffing Newsrooms with NUJ Journalists. At the end of…
UTV in Ireland
On January 1st 2015 UTV Ireland began broadcasting in Ireland, the TV station which is owned by UTV media replaces UTV of UPC & Sky EPG’s. Many people have complained that they no longer have access to UTV as it has been replaced by UTV Ireland which has different scheduling to UTV & other ITV…
Gender issues for Microphones
Women are under represented in radio. In Ireland less than 1 in 4 voices in news / current affairs is female. One possible contributor and untested reason for this is that the radio studio is not adjusted to the female voice. How could this be? Warning, here comes some sweeping generalisations. Men build radio stations…