It's been a rather quiet but nonetheless interesting day up in the radio rooms where most of the first years have started work on the news-writing part of the Basic Radio Skills module under the watchful eye of Charles Carroll. As usual there were the usual problems of getting Burli (the news writing and editing software) to run but everyone else more or less had the hang of things.
In terms of major project ideas, Phil H has come close to abandoning his "toliet" idea due to those who have refused interviews included various sewage companies and London Zoo who are refusing to talk about their large turds that are present in the cages.
This is in spite of getting access to the "Toilet Awards" which happen to be presented by the legend that is Roy Walker out of all people.
Phil's also changed the direction of his dissertation proposal where instead of focusing on community radio, he's looking at how and whether podcasts will change the way we listen to radio.
With podcasts such as Chris Moyles' and Jonathan Ross, I definitely listen to them more as opposed to the shows themselves, mainly because I'm not a morning person and it's not really worth getting up just to listen to big gobs talking bollocks most of the time.
Well not on a daily basis at least.
Having said that I need to make sure that I'm up early on Friday morning to listen to Janet Street Porter as the guest on Desert Island Discs, who thankfully doesn't present on radio but it will be interesting to find out about her favourite records.
Why the Roy Plomley estate won't allow the programme to be included on the iPlayer is just nonsense and it's not like it would do anyone any harm.
Whilst things are quietening down, there's the possibility that I may get a chance to DJ at the Undercroft once again towards Christmas they want to give the DJ night's a kick up the backside with the end of term approaching. I'll be spinning the soul as usual and hopefully they'll get Chris and Phil to play all the popular Xmas tunes such as Slade, Mariah and not forgetting the Pogues of course.
We'll see how things go as those running the events at Smoke may want to do something of their own, i.e. not having any music related to the theme of the event like they did for Halloween, School Disco etc
As it's my last year at Uni they hopefully won't all be Scrooges.
Christmas has appeared to have come early to Smoke (much to the annoyance of Lottie) where Dan decided to put Shaky on full blast in RP1 which went down pretty well despite it being late November. I think it was Stoobie who told us that Christmas doesn't officially start "until the Coca Cola ads with the truck start showing" which they have done having seen one during the X Factor this week.
However I've heard they're going to pull them in a couple of weeks which makes even less sense.
On a similar subject it's been revealed that to coincide with their new TV special, Wallace and Gromit will be used as part of BBC 1's Christmas idents and trailers for this year. It's not the first time they've been used for such a thing as back in 1995 BBC 2 used them for their idents when "A Close Shave" made it's premiere.
However relating to an earlier post about the fuss over guns being used on television it's worth relating to an incident on Noel Edmond's Late Late Breakfast Show, where he got into a bit of deep water for destroying the 1985 Xmas symbol with a shotgun.
Now I should be offended by that considering that it was my first ever Xmas BBC 1 symbol, and the fact that those birds on there were robins.
However it's Noel's rather cheeky manner in this that makes it rather funny to an extent.
To be honest I can't really remember any of the Christmas symbols used by the BBC until 1989 and BBC 1's "spinning top globe". It was also a time when the trailers used to have an elaborate theme and the one used in 1989 had to be one of my favourites.
It's probably more exciting than the programmes themselves.
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