New Racial Harmony website

My colleague Britt Yip has launched a new website on positive news in race relations. www.RacialHarmony.net I've written an article for it -- truth be told I wrote it quite a while ago and can't really remember what it says.

Still, the website is on a very worthy cause, and if you have a positive story, or opinion, about Racial Relations, send it in!

Natural History Unit God

I briefly met a senior producer from the Natural History Unit today -- Sarah Blunt. She produced the Sounds of Life, that I blogged giddily about below. Quite inspiring -- she uses layers so very well! And she is clearly very passionate about what she does.

She recommended the DolphinEar Hydrophone as a good way to get into that area. I wished I had one on Sunday, when I found frog spawn in Richmond Park.

Most impressive, not only did I not fall at her knees in admiration, I was reasonably coherent. Yay!

Cool sounding job

Advertised elsewhere on the web:

Wanted: Production Assistant, Monocle Web & Broadcast

Production Assistant, Monocle Web & Broadcast

Monocle.com is the broadcast arm of Monocle, producing high-quality audio and video related to subjects covered in the magazine. The website, and corresponding mobile channels, aim to 'raise the bar' for internet-based video, both in terms of editorial and production values.

Monocle is looking for a highly motivated, skilled all-rounder to join our core team in London, helping with the creation of both the website and the new broadcast-led formats it carries.

Looks like RTÉ are about to do DRM :-)

RTÉ have a notice up on Aertel (this one) saying that 252 kHz will be off air from 09.00 on 26/03/07 until 18.00 on 30/03/07.
"Network requires this outage for the transmitter replacement project. At the end of this outage the new transmitter will be operational".

Yay!

The Now Show returns to Radio 4

I've just heard the first episode of the new series of the Now Show on Radio 4. I have two tickets for next week's recording, but after hearing tonight's show, I'll not be using them!

New website: Media Helping Media

I just noticed a link to the Media Helping Media website, on Richard Sambrook's blog.

It describes iself thus:
Media Helping Media is for all involved in promoting freedom of expression in countries where the media is under threat.

Given the tightening up planned for the BBC Chinese Service, I hope Media Helping Media becomes widely used.