Podmore!

Not podcasting, but Dave Podmore, the fab cricket comedy from Radio 4 – the first series has just finished on BBC7, and starting next Wednesday, the follow-up series. Check it out!

LCR: Chen Li & Kingsley

What a show! Really innovative stuff from Chen Li and Kingsley (who you can see in the training photos down near the beginning of the blog) – using the TV quiz type format to simply inform foreigners about Chinese culture.

Then we had a package from Yizhou – we first met her on Tuesday evening, and already she had a piece on the radio! That's part of what community radio is about.
It just a shame that the files on the playout system (I believe it's Myriad) went wonky while on air :( Chen Li, ex BBC Conti, coped fabulously of course! But we do have to move on now, to make sure we have backups. The studio has CD players, which we should have lined up with all our main actuality.

This coming Sunday it'll be Zhang Rui and I, and hopefully we can have all our audio on my iPod and plugged into the desk just in case :-)

LCR on Sunday 8 October 2006

I don't know who the host is this weekend! I think it's Chen Li and Luke. Tune in at the usual times (as below) to find out!

Black History Month

It's Black History Month here in the UK. For now, I don't think I'll be producing any radio relating to it though: I haven't come up with any leads for London Chinese Radio (well, there is one, short fun piece, but it needs someone who speaks both Swahili and Cantonese or Mandarin, and I haven't found one yet!).

As for whatever stuff I might do myself (on occasion!), I don't have quite enough really!

The most promising – and disturbing – lead comes from my surname. Am I descended from Anthony/Antoine Walsh, this guy, a man who made his fortune and was honoured, for dealing in slaves, out of Nantes.

The little investigations I've made say I'm unlikely to find out without a lot of work – maybe as much as working out 300 years worth of family tree. I'll not get that done this month then!

What I do know is that Antoine Walsh is a "Kilkenny Walsh", as am I.

The way that man made his money was deeply immoral. For some reason, I feel the need to tell people about it. But I still haven't found something terribly interesting to say about it on the radio.


My other ideas for this month are a whole lot lighter… but I'll type them up some other time.

Grace & Barry LCR Music special

Grace and Barry did the LCR on Sound Radio show yesterday, and gave us a new format for the hour: a music special, with a large number of songs and expert analysis of them by Barry. I think I prefer the format of the previous week, but we simply must celebrate the diversity and experimentation. Very well done! I think we should seriously getting a specialist music show for Barry.

Unfortunately I was stuck outside the reception area for the first 25 minutes or so, meaning I missed the opening. So now I can tell, that with a Degen 1105, you won't get Sound Radio 1503 in Shepherd's Bush, Bayswater, or Paddington!