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RAJAR Q3 2026
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Boat on a Stormy Day
My favourite picture of this trip so far. Yes – a certain amount of processing has been applied, but it’s more to do with the power of RAW and using two versions of the photo blended into one. I spent a lot of time burning the clouds then undoing what I’d started. I think the…
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Happy 60th Radio 3
It’s the sixtieth anniversary of Radio 3, or The Third Programme as it once was. It might be reaching pensionable age (well, maybe another five years to go), but in this time of age discrimination, I don’t want to see it pensioned off! I commend Humphrey Carpenter’s The Envy of the World as a history…
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Tax Breaks For Record Companies!
Seemingly, the BPI is calling for record companies to be given tax breaks! This seems to be the latest hare-brained scheme for British record companies to make more money for themselves. It seems that when they’re looking for new artists, it’s not because they might hit big and earn loads of profits, but they’re actually…
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Blood, Sweat and Tea
I saw Tom Reynolds give a talk about blogging from work a year or so ago at an NTK event, but I must admit, that I hadn’t really spent much time reading his blog. Blood, Sweat and Tea is a compendium of entries he’s made over the last couple of years or so, which means…
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ITV Must Carry on with Kids Programming
I’m delighted to learn that Ofcom has refused ITV permission to reduce their CITV coverage any further. As I’ve argued here before – if they don’t want to offer public service broadcasting, then they’re welcome to hand back their scarce spectrum resource and add themselves to the bottom of the list on the Sky EPG…
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My Father And Other Working Class Heroes
You may know Gary Imlach. He’s the man who for years has presented UK coverage of the Tour de France, first on Channel 4, and then more recently on ITV (with Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwin providing race commentary). Before that, he was a face on the Channel 4 coverage of American Football alongside sometime…
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Temeraire
Temeraire is set during the Napoleaonic wars. Nelson is battling against the French and he’s got Villeneuve and his fleet on the run. The Battle of Trafalgar has not yet been fought. Against this background we meet Captain Laurence who’s ship has just captured a French “prize”. On board is a large egg which he…
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The Power of Ten
I love this IBM video explaining relative distances. The Power of Ten… (Via Badscience)
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Football “Information”
It seems that the ticket agency in Piccadilly Circus tube station doesn’t now offer tickets to matches. It’s actually illegal in the UK to resell tickets to football matches due to crowd control issues, but giving out “information” isn’t. They even put the word in inverted commas.
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Digital Music Awards – Vote Rigging
The Digital Music Awards are now a fixture in the world of radio, and each year they canvas for votes from the public to pick their favourites in various categories, including “Best Radio Station”. The only problem with that is that the most popular seems certain to win. And when I say “popular” I mean,…
Hadrian’s Wall
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