Links tagged with “radio”
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Radio Garden
Really nice way to browse international radio stations via a globe. (via @undermanager)
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russell davies: NewsNarrativeStream Q1.1
I do like this audio news thing Russell made. Hearing it context-free, if you had no idea where it came from, would be good.
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Dandelion Radio | Mixcloud
Ooh, Dandelion are putting their previous month’s shows on Mixcloud. Brill. Rocker’s my favourite, but lots of good stuff generally.
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Echofi - Better Spotify Radio
Enter an artist name and it plays a stream of similar artists (chosen using Echo Nest) in Spotify.
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United States Early Radio History
A fascinating read, with loads of links to text and images from period articles and adverts.
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All Programs Considered by Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books
An overview by Bill McKibben of the good bits of American public radio, comparing radio to other media, outlining its difficulties. Some things I should listen to, given the time.
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YouTube - A Sunday afternoon at home, part 1 of 3 - Tony Hancock
If you ever need to explain to someone what an English Sunday afternoon is like, play this. We listened to it a lot when I was little.
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Dandelion Radio - Festive 50
Don’t know how I missed that someone had been continuing Peel’s Festive Fifties. I’m loving the radio too.
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Pulse Laser: Shownar
This is what I’ve been working on, off and on, for the past while, with the lovely folks at Schulze & Webb. Is good.
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Big L Radio Times Feature | Big L
Article from the ‘Radio Times’ from last year describing life in the Frinton-on-Sea house that radio DJs Mike Read, David “Diddy” Hamilton and Adrian John share five days a week. Those wacky guys!
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Playlists and Archives for Mudd Up! with DJ/Rupture
New favourite podcast. Completely corking. I think it’s what characters in William Gibson novels listen to.
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This American Life: 348: Tough Room
Click “Full Episode” then skip forward five minutes for a quarter of an hour of ‘The Onion’s staff talking about what makes a story funny or not. (via Jane in Progress)
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Indiepop Radio
Fantastic. “Indie songs with proper tunes and proper lyrics: Indiepop, Sarah Records, Brit-Pop, Shoegaze, Twee…” Streaming radio and a podcast.
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BBC - Programmes
What I’ve been working on, launched today: a permanent URL for every episode of every TV and radio programme. The data needs much improving and there’s lots more goodness to come…
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Pulse Laser: Drawing Olinda
Splendid piece by Jack Schulze on how they came up with ideas for the form of their exciting-sounding digital radio prototype for the BBC.
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BBC- Radio 4 - Afternoon Play
Ben Moor’s ‘Coelacanth’ is the Afternoon Play today, and you can listen again for a week. I saw him do it live and it was both very funny and very touching. So do tune in.
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CD Times - Various (compiled by Chris Coco & Rob Da Bank)
Bugger. Blue Room is the only radio I’ve regularly listened to (on Listen Again) since Peel died, and it finishes this month. The last corner of radio that felt like home. What do I listen to now? Suggestions very welcome.
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iCalShare - BBC Radio 4 schedule
Nice iCal-able schedule. (via Haddock)
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BBC - Radio 3 - Mixing It - 8 July 2005
Brian Eno will be interviewed on Mixing It this Friday.
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London Pirate Radio Listings
Loads of them, slightly varying formats.
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BBC - Radio 3 - Beethoven Experience - downloads
So close. Otherwise fab idea greatly marred by not splitting MP3s into movements and including the announcer’s long introduction! Doh.
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Stay Free! Daily: Radio Free Clear Channel
I’m fascinated by corporations trying to appear anti-establishment, and this is an awesome/scary example.
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BBC Radio Streams
Direct links to streams to avoid the rarely-working-in-Mac-Firefox Audio on Demand pop-up.
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blinkx video search
Search TV and radio broadcasts. Works nicely, although clips are a bit short. “Smart Folders” (if you’re on Windows) sound good.
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BBC Radio Player
Direct link to the pop-up.
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EarthStation1.com - The Radio Propaganda Sounds
Some sample wavs/MP3s of the man who broadcast Nazi propaganda in English from Germany during World War II.