I don’t want to turn Crooked Timber into a series of announcements for British radio shows, but I would like to give advance notice that “Alan Carling”:https://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/001911.html , sociologist, electoral candidate, and one of my collaborators on Imprints, is now on the radio with “Bradford Community Broadcasting”:http://www.bcb.yorks.com/index.php . His show — The Bradford Experience — goes out this Thursday, and he’ll be interviewing Home Office minister “Fiona McTaggart”:http://www.fionamactaggart.labour.co.uk/ . The show goes out from 1600-1700 (UK time) and I rather suspect they’ll be discussing race, religion, secularism and such matters. There’s sure to be plenty on the “live stream”:http://www.bcb.yorks.com/index.php that might interest — or infuriate — Harry, Ophelia Benson, Russell Arben Fox and others around these parts. So perhaps Crooked Timber can get Alan an audience beyond the limits of the Bradford–Leeds conurbation.
UPDATE: Alan tells me that the programme will be repeated on Saturday (9.00-10.00 am) and Sunday (4.00 – 5.00). He’ll also be interviewing the Bishop of Bradford.
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Maynard Handley 11.30.04 at 5:54 pm
You might want to ask this Alan Carling if his primary goal is to “be on the radio” or “to be heard”. Because if his goal is to be heard, the primary way in which people listen to digital audio is on their iPods or similar devices while commuting, exercising and so on — it is not listening to streamed audio on a desktop computer.
Until this fellow offers mp3 downloads, I’m afraid I, like most people, will pass him by.
Claire 11.30.04 at 6:40 pm
Well you’ve got the message out to north of Yorkshire.
Ophelia Benson 12.01.04 at 2:03 am
Well I listen to radio on my desktop (well, laptop, but it lives on the desk, so it’s kind of a desktop) computer, and I don’t have an Ipod.
And speaking of me (yes we were), as far as I’m concerned, Chris, there can’t be too many radio announcements. The reason I listen to the radio on the computer is so that I can listen to the BBC and pretend US radio doesn’t exist. And I look at that endlessly long list of stuff on the Beeb’s page and apart from the stuff I already know about – have no clue what to listen to. So I’m a prime candidate for adverts.
My colleague talked very briefly about a book we’ve written on Radio Scotland today, but he has no idea when or on what it was broadcast, so that’s just…kind of gone. Phooey.
Matt McGrattan 12.01.04 at 8:18 am
For those interested and who don’t mind using RealMedia streams Ben Hammersley posted a link to this comprehensive list of BBC radio streams at his blog:
http://dave.org.uk/streams/
There are also various software tools (on PC and Mac) that let you record streams, convert them to MP3 and/or copy them to an iPod. Just because the media is originally streamed doesn’t mean that you can’t copy it or store it.
harry 12.01.04 at 3:15 pm
Bugger, I’m teaching during that time. I’ll try to figure a way of taping it (I am so low-tech, matt, that I just have a tape recorder plugged into the speaker jack of my computer, and tape streaming audio — I’ll be done for when the casette tape dies.)
Maynard Handley 12.01.04 at 7:35 pm
There are also various software tools (on PC and Mac) that let you record streams, convert them to MP3 and/or copy them to an iPod. Just because the media is originally streamed doesn’t mean that you can’t copy it or store it.
That’s not really the point. The point is that there is already far more material than I could ever listen to available in mp3 or aac files. If something that I might be interested in (but am not certain to be interested in) is not available, I’m simply not going to make the effort to convert it — life is too short.
This is not rocket science — it’s no different from the fact that putting your material in a journal, but not on the internet; or putting it on the internet but behind some sort of barrier that prevents direct linking and forces one to view ads, “sign-up” or whatever, is going to have a pretty damn precipitous effect on your viewership.
As I said — the issue is “do you actually care about getting your message out or do you have some other agenda in mind?”
Ophelia Benson 12.01.04 at 9:50 pm
Blimey, how pompous. Plenty of people do still listen to radio, after all. It’s widely available, it’s easy, it’s a mass medium. What ‘other agenda’ would someone have in mind simply because he talks on the radio without ‘offering’ mp3 downloads? Some sinister elitist plot to thwart iPod-users? Sheesh.
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