STOP. HOLDING. YOUR. LAVALIER. MIC. BETWEEN. YOUR. FUCKING. FINGERTIPS. LIKE. A. DAINTY. LITTLE. TEACUP.
As a child of the Southern Television region my earliest memories of Bill Oddie were linked to Saturday morning television. He wrote the feem toon and sung the feem toon. 🍌 youtu.be/GvSE7_33bXI?...
The Saturday Banana - Title Sequences - Bill Oddie - Southern Television
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Obligatory dad grad pic. Congratulations Hannah Martin - you'll be great.
Google says I spent more than 5 days on a ferry sailing from Hampshire to, er, Hampshire. And it reckons that ferry crossed the South Downs. Amazing, if true. Film rights available.
credit to Piano Analytics for classing their training courses as Piano Lessons.
Many congratulations to Taylor Swift and Travis Perkins.
I'm no economist so would welcome help to understand how the apparent answer to our economic woes is to make London more like Manchester. Doesn't this ONS data suggests the opposite is true?
Reminder that Radio 4 Long Wave goes off air for ever on Saturday (not sure of the exact time, maybe after the also-doomed midnight news). My very-former employer the Radio Society of Great Britain has a rather nice article on it. rsgb.org/main/radio-s...
This research on average podcast length is doing the rounds. www.edisonresearch.com/average-epis... But average is not a target and who wants to be average? Make your show as long as it has to be but as short as it can be.
Average Episode Length of the Top 25 UK Podcasts
Use Edison Podcast Metrics and Ausha's PSO Benchmark tool to understand the optimal episode length for your podcast.
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Benson in Oxfordshire, Wisley in Surrey and Heathrow Airport are often cited as the hottest places. There may be even hotter spots but these are locations where the MetOffice has monitoring stations.
someone had the job of naming the Newscopter. It could have been Newschopper, Helicam, BBC FlyPlayer...
weather presenter Louise Leer just described Sunday as "part two of the weekend". That makes Friday the season finale of the weekdays.
why can't you just drag an .ics file into Google Calendar? Come on devs.
as a longstanding member of the @simoncalder.bsky.social fan club I commend this article to you. pressgazette.co.uk/news-leaders...
Simon Calder: The Jack Reacher of travel journalism
The Telegraph's new travel correspondent on travelling light and paying his own way.
pressgazette.co.uk
train guard "we have gained about 5 minutes of delay". Such a win, when you've also lost about 5 minutes of punctuality.
#TOTP there's only one Savage Garden song worth playing, and this isn't it.
Goslings at the Heath Pond in Petersfield this evening.
radio people - don't keep your obit anno files on your live server
RadioToday - UK & Ireland@handle.invalid · 3mo agoRadio Caroline says sorry after playing its Obit message announcing the death of King Charles
