Haven't pod'd my last few appeasrances on this show but this was quite lively...edited highlights (?) from a three hour show on September 27th, 2009. Copyright Bauer Radio.

Broadcast on John Gillmore programme, BBC Radio Lancashire, 11 August 2009, shortly after Keith Macklin's funera1 at Blackburn Cathedral.

Copyright BBC, 2009

Journalism, class and gender

In conversation with Assistant Professor Sam Sauls and students from North Texas University, 2 July 2009. They were visiting Liverpool as part of a UK 'fact-finding' visit. The conversation was recorded as we dined outside in Liverpool city centre, hence the noise of traffic, cutlery, and seagulls. Lots of seagulls...

This is me featured on the second edition of a new programme (the first featured Cherie Blair/Booth!) on the talk/music Liverpool-based station, City Talk 105.9. The commercials and (sadly!), for copyright reasons, most of the music, have been edited out.

Copyright Bauer Radio, 2009

...a pod from a bike...and featuring extracts from Chris Mullin's political diaries: "A View from the Foothills" (Profile Books, 2009)

Recorded 450 feet above Liverpool in the Radio City tower, 7 June 09, shortly after the three hour Sunday breakfast 'Rob Mcloughlin Live' on which I was a studio guest. Rob is an ace political journalist and presenter, on a momentous week in British politics. Listen out for the rustle of bin bags and hum of vacuum cleaners as an attempt is made to clean the studio during the recording!

From a copse (but no robbers) on one of the most traumatic weeks in modern British politics.

Taxi drivers' views, Hoover |Dam, Grand Canyon...and why even I baulk at 'exposing' my audio inpout in public!

Another early Sunday 'live' appearance form the top of the Radio City tower. Topics this time include: Eurovision Song Contest, the economy, charity donations and our Foreign Secretary in a skirt...plus, HOW many holes are there in Blackburn, Lancashire? See how I fare in two parts of The Beatles' quiz.

Copyright Bauer Radio, 2009

As ever, a mixed bag of topics on this lively Sunday breakfast show on City Talk - from Prince Harry, to Gaza, the economy, education (with guest from Edge Hill University who had just been appointed MBE), Liverpool's image, 'Big Brother' and comedy. I am guesting with a former 'sparring partner' Frank McKenna, ex Labour councillor and now head of Downtown Liverpool.

Copyright Bauer Radio, 2009

My message of hope and peace to the world (modest and unassuming as ever!) at the end of a very significant  year...

Chat ranging from the profound to the plain daft. 'Edited highlights' from Rob Mcloughlin's early Sunday show on City Talk (Liverpool, UK), 7 December 2008.

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These are 'edited highlights' from October 5th, 2008 show on Liverpool's City Talk http://www.citytalk.fm/article.asp?id=555043.

Slight confusion over the name of a certain swearey footie manager and a for-sometime-dead comic actor and, at the end, me and my fellow guest really got the wind up and wouldn't put a sock in it!! Plus, all the usual nonsense, politics, sport, gossip...and cartoons on the radio!

Please note any 'phone numbers and web site addresses given are no longer active-probably!

Copyright Bauer Radio, 2008

More back-ground to this on my Blog page: http://www.rudinblog.typepad.com
but this contains some edited 'highlights' (?) from my appearance on City Talk 105.9 on August 24th, 2008. Copyright Bauer radio.

Listen to me! Listen to me! This was a riot...everything from knife crime to new music to Cabinet changes, in this fast-moving Sunday morning show. Originally from a three hour show, this is edited down to a little over half an hour, so if it jumps around a bit...

...in which I talk to Deborah Wilson of the University of Lincoln, on the first full day of the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and Radio and Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) conventions in Las Vegas. The movie actor Tim Robbins had just made a highly amusing and provocative 'keynote' speech to the assembled 'suits'...and Debbie got to shake his hand!

...rapping with three academics who teach and love radio, 'live' at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas.

...in which I talk to four students from Rowan University in New Jersey, USA who were about to receive an award at the annual Broadcast Education Festival (BEA) in Las Vegas.

More at: http://wgls.rowan.edu 

...in which I try and join in Australia's new year's celebrations '08 (10 hours ahead of the UK:  we have relatives in Brisbane so it seemed like a good idea to join in a trans-global fest' and hear what they were listening to) but it turns out to be slightly underwhelming...

 This was a preview interview for the next day's (BBC Radio 4) programme on the start of the UK's analogue switch-off and digital TV switch-over. This is (ironically!) from an FM analogue recording, hence the hiss! 

Featuring an amazing primary school teacher, whose enthusiasm and dedication - to his pupils and the use of new technology - put many of us to shame! Recorded a the first ever UK Podcamp at the NTI Aston, Birmingham, UK, September 2nd, 2007. 

Recorded at the PodcampUK, NTI, Birmingham, UK on September 2nd, 2007. http://podcamp.uk.com. In which Chris' and I discuss were journalism is going, the wonders of the Internet, surveillance, threats to our liberty, etc. But it's not only light stuff!!

...with Chris Priestman (who took pic'-thanks, Chris!) and Gary Hudson, from University of Staffordshire. Talking about all things broadcasting, journalism, teaching, Elvis, stretched limo's, gambling...and stat's.

...or 'strange man muttering to himself in field.' In which I discuss, amongst other things (in no particular order),  some personal stuff (not too much!), forced metrication, the link between cows and transmitter moves, recent gigs I've attended, effects of all-day drinking hours, a good turn, geese, freedom of speech (not), and army equipment (lack of).

...and it's back to hearth and home on a glorious September week-end, in which your Podcaster muses on MRI Scans, the NHS, considers kidnapping oldsters and yougsters, rhapsodises about bird-life at Chez Rudin and enjoys Labour Party ructions. 

First of two Podcasts from the 'mediaguardian Edinburgh International Television Festival'. Lots of name-dropping, along with minor criticism of Edinburgh 'signage issues', muses on Edinburgh climate and apologies for lack of atmos'.

 

This is my round-up of the final day of this year's 'mediaguardian Edinburgh International TV Festival'. Lots of gushing about famous people that I have seen and talked to...and then a chat in a VERY NOISY bar at the Conference Centre with some delegates who were attending courtesy of Television for Young People (TVYP)

...in which I discuss amongst other things, the difference between journalism/broadcasting and academe, Thunderbirds, Kenny Everett, and fascinating technical details on 'kit' used for my Podcasts

...in which I discuss the final concert in the 2006 season of the 'Liverpool Summer Pops', Churchill and Orwell, shooting elephants, and the dangers of simultaneous swimming and time-keeping 

...in which I sit on a dry stone wall and ruminate on glories of English countryside on a perfect summer's late afternoon (pictured). I reflect on the wonderful offerings of BBC 7, and look forward to a Pimm's back home. So, a mixture of the bucolic and alcoholic.

Charles (Charlie) Lambert has just finished a lengthy period as a part-time tutor at Liverpool John Moores University - including co-tutor on 'my' radio modules.

A versatile and highly experienced journalist in all media, including BBC network radio and regional television, he has his own production company www.northernriver.co.uk and is shortly to take up a full-time post, runnning the sports journalism degree at the University of Central Lancashire. 

In this Podcast, recorded on a glorious summer's day in Liverpool, we talk sport, journalism, politics, cathedrals, sport again (!), 'gender issues', and Charlie reveals his most embarrassing experiences. Remember, these are highly unlikely to happen to you - so, please, don't have nightmares.

This was inspired by a superb article by Henry Porter - originally published in Vanity Fair and then reproduced in The Independent, June 29th, 2006, and an interview by the always excellent Adam Boulton with the ludicrous Baroness Scotland on Sky News this morning (July 9th).

WAKE UP BRITAIN!

 

 

These are my reflections on the morning after the Radio Festival: I hope they are provocative, challenging - but also constructive!

This is recorded amongst all the bustle of delegates leaving the Radio Festival - and lots of other 'actuality' outside Queens' College, Cambridge - at the end of Festival 06.

It mostly consists of a short interview in which we discuss creativity, 'pirates', the enduring legacy of Kenny Everett, and 'is that your taxi?'!

At the end, and most definitely 'off mic', you can also hear Andy Cartwright - a former BBC colleague and now of the excellent and much praised Soundscape Productions (www.soundscapeproductions.co.uk).

Now I've got my sound card sorted out I can now present this in STEREO! (Albeit very hard-limited and compressed, as it originated on Hi-MD recorder using Automatic Level Control).

This is me 'interviewing' Deborah Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Journalism at University of Lincoln - and sometimes Broadcast Journalist at Radio Lincoln - as we took some refreshment near the end of BEA 06. We're on the 'roof' of Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville, which is part of the famous Flamingo Hotel complex on Las Vegas Boulevard - 'The Strip'. It's Friday night. It's Las Vegas. We're at 'an iconic entertainment venue'. So what do we do?  We talk about education, journalism, conferences -and, alright, to begin with, just a bit about Mr B. and his marvellous tonics!