tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-380342382011-11-27T17:17:06.312-07:00Radio brings the silence to life or rather, brings life to the silence. It unites people from all over the globe and speaks to the insomniac's heart. Intelligent speech from the English-speaking world's best broadcast journalists. Comments welcome.Jill Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11175042752685213951noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38034238.post-31338337203400019762010-01-10T12:59:00.000-07:002010-01-10T13:00:35.565-07:00

WunderRadio cost me about $6.99 from iTunes. I installed it a couple of days ago on my iPod Touch and have been enjoying BBC Radio 7 for the comedy, and BBC Radio 4 because I'm an addict.I haven't mastered whatever fancy features this app may have, and I noticed that it seems to shut itself off from time to time, but it hasn't been a problem and may be shutting off at the end of a show.I'm in

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ihasfaceliftOriginally uploaded by bcgrotePhoto used under CC Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License. Thanks to bcgrote for circulating this charming LOLcat on Flickr.Ange & Wendy, two Sydney, Australia broadcasters, have teamed up for a 20-minute spot, Is It Just Me?Episode 1 (links to podcast) covered Brazilian waxes (yes, they have them Down Under) but then moved north for a facial

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Malalai Joya visits a girls school in Farah province in AfghanistanOriginally uploaded by AfghanKabulPhoto: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic Licence.Thanks to AfghanKabul for sharing on Flickr.Uploaded to Flickr 3 Dec. 2007.In the photo, Malalai Joya, currently suspended from her role as a member of the Afghan parliament pending court proceedings, speaks at a girls' school.Dispatches

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CBC Radio 1 - Q - March 25, 2008, interview with travel writer Chuck Thompson.Jian Ghomeshi, host of the weekday radio program "Q" talked to Chuck Thompson about travel writing and about Thompson's book, Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer.Publishers Weekly reviewed the book on 9/10/2007 - you figure out if that was September or October. (Note to self: save that

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81 Words: the inside story of psychiatry and homosexuality. Radio documentary by reporter Alix Spiegel, from Chicago Public Radio's This American Life. Broadcast on the radio program All in the Mind on ABC Radio National (Australia) and available as at the time of this writing (August 11, 2007) as a podcast from the All in the Mind website. This review is of Part 2 (of 2 parts) of the

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CBC Radio One has made some program scheduling changes. The best one I'm aware of is that Radio Overnight now starts one hour earlier, officially running from midnight to 6 a.m.Here in Calgary, on weekdays we actually lose touch with Radio Overnight a half hour early, at 5:30 a.m., which I find OK because the locally produced business news in that half hour is definitely worth listening to.But,

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Friends of Banff National Park radio plays on 101.1 FM and can be heard in and around teh Banff townsite in Banff, Alberta, Canada. It is also available live online at the Friends of Banff website.Driving through the Rocky Mountains can be a rather silent experience - and that's often good - unless you bring your own audio entertainment.Near the town of Banff, though, the Friends of Banff radio

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CBC's daily current affairs program, The Current, is broadcast from 8:30 a.m. Monday to Friday on CBC Radio 1.On December 13, 2006 - less than one month ago, Anna Maria Tremonte interviewed George Monbiot. Monbiot's recent book, Heat: How to stop the planet from burning (available here), is a no-nonsense treatment of climate change and what we need to do to stop its escalation. Tremonte

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CBC, Sunday Edition, hour 1, January 7, 2007.Michael Enright, host of the 3-hour Sunday magazine on CBC, devoted 3 minutes 23 seconds this morning to the topic of radio criticism. He wonders where it is. He laments its absence in Canada.Well, Michael, so do I. Hi, and thanks for noticing.

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Not available for download. "Srebrenica Reborn", broadcast on The Current, CBC Radio, Friday, January 5, 2007.What happens to the poster child of - of what exactly? Post-genocidal reconciliation? Internationally collaborative reconstruction? Peace after war?Srebrenica is where neighbours massacred neighbours. One of the places.Now that the shooting's over, it's very very quiet. The main

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Radio National, "Prisoners of War: Australians under Nippon". Original broadcasts Monday to Friday at 11 a.m. January 1-20, 2007. Previously broadcast episodes are currently available for download.Looking for something warm and Australian to listen to while welcoming the New Year in Canada, I tuned the computer to the live feed from ABC Radio National.I

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BBC Radio 4: The Archers, episode originally broadcast December 14, 2006. Available on-line until December 20, and in the Omnibus edition until December 23.BBC's long-running radio soap opera, The Archers, occasionally has a moment in broadcasting which becomes legendary. The best one is the night Grace Archer died. Those among us who can claim to have heard the original broadcast (not I!)

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www.exinthecity.com is a website for "Empowering women to move from EX to EXceptional". It provides support for women dealing with divorce and relationship breakups. Thank you to exinthecity.com for inviting readers to explore radio here.Disclosure: exinthecity.com is NOT related to this blog. Jill Browne has written articles which appear on exinthecity.com.Well, now that the legalese is out

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On Screen, December 6, 2006 on BBC World Service. Presented by Nicola Christie.Currently the BBC is running a series called "Generation Next". I keep stumbling across it, and always come away daunted and impressed by the thoughtful, articulate young people the producers are putting in front of us.At the moment I'm listening to the online version of last week's On Screen, the movie review

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"The Secret Confessions of Sue Townsend, Aged Sixty and Two-Quarters", produced by Anne Wright-Howard, broadcast Sunday, November 12, 2006 on CBC Radio One, during the second hour of the Sunday Edition program. (Click the title / link above and choose "AUDIO" from the side menu; most recent programs available on audio are listed. Unknown whether this program will be available).Sue Townsend's

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Broadcast at 9:30 a.m. on CBC Radio 1, a documentary on Vimy Ridge and the way today's Canadians are exploring and memorializing the memory of the fallen. *Link will take you to "The Current" program for November 10, 2006. This item, "Monumental Politics Documentary", is in Segment Three and may still be available for listening by clicking the segment link on the program page. Program prepared by

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Australia's ABC (not to be confused with ABC of the USA) offers archived documentaries at http://www.abc.net.au/. The link for this story is http://www.abc.net.au/rn/radioeye/stories/2006/1732410.htm but if it doesn't work, search for the title "A Day at the Office".The Office is a Bondi Beach cafe. Office Manager Dorit (3 times married, 4 de facto, more or less; has dated approximately 100 men)

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After some 15,000 episodes starting on January 1, 1951, The Archers is the radio serial against which all other radio serials must be measured.Broadcast twice a day by the BBC, and in a special "omnibus" version on Sunday (in case you missed it during the week), The Archers was called "an everyday story of country folk" and started as an educational program for farmers and their neighbours. Now

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Radio... the voice in the dark when there's no one else there. People with something to say. Meaning. Connection. Tell me.

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