Jazz FM is a station I go back to regularly, especially for background music while working on the website. Their day-time programming is not always to my taste (each to his own!) so I make use of their Catchup facility, usually listening to Dinner Jazz with … during working hours. Dinner Jazz with Helen…
With Richard Glover of 702 ABC Sydney on leave, this morning I tuned in to Rafael Epstein on 774 ABC Melbourne. Like Glover, Epstein is an experienced journalist, and [this morning] he was interviewing Alan Rusbridge, Editor of The Guardian. To listen to the interview, click here.
Book Depository to establish Australian supply? Listen now Download audio Monday 24 November 2014 10:05AM In 2011 Nick Sherry, the then Small Business Minister said ‘In five years, other than a few specialist booksellers in capital cities, we will not see a bookstore, they will cease to exist.’ Despite his dire prediction that the growing…
ABC cuts: Managing director Mark Scott announces more than 400 jobs to go By Jessica Kidd and staff Updated 10 minutes agoMon 24 Nov 2014, 10:54am PHOTO: Managing director of the ABC, Mark Scott, outlines how the national broadcaster will make $254 million in savings over five years. (ABC News) RELATED STORY: ABC news division…
Edward Abbot | The English and Australian Cookery Book … | Australia’s first colonial cookbook with kangaroo brain, roasted wombat recipes is republished after 150 years PM By Nick Grimm RELATED STORY: Australia’s ‘first cookbook’ goes on show MAP: Australia A colonial-era cookbook featuring recipes like battered kangaroo brains deep fried in emu oil and…
First Contact | SBS TV and NITV | 3 episodes, 18, 19, 20 November First Contact shines a light on the deep divide between Indigenous Australians and the rest of the nation by taking six non-Indigenous people and immersing them into Aboriginal Australia for the first time. To watch the programme on YouTube, clink the…
Frequency of Laughter | Radio 4 | From 18 October; available on BBC iPlayer Radio with over a year to listen and also available as a podcast. The Frequency of Laughter is a six-part history of radio comedy, covering 1975-2005, presented by journalist and radio fan Grace Dent. In each episode she brings together two…
Boris Johnson | The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History | Hodder 9781444783025 ‘The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.’ On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston Churchill’s death, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the ‘Churchill Factor’ – the singular brilliance of one…
Today marks the 96th anniversary of the armistice that brought an end to the First World War. 2014 is of course the centenary of the outbreak of the war, and the BBC has a dedicated World War One TV & Radio website. Viewers within the UK (or those outside the UK using a UK VPN)…
The Last Post At the end of World at One on BBC Radio 4 on 4 November, there was an unusual rendition of The Last Post, played on the oboe by Paul Sartin of Bellowhead. Sartin’s contribution is part of a national programme in the UK commemorating World War 1. The Last Post ‘is a mass participation…