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Roz Laws Mercury 10 Jan 11
She worried about her weight, her lack of success with boys and her feeling of loneliness at being an outsider. Now Meera Syal is opening up her teenage diaries to reveal what it was like growing up in the Black Country in the 1970s.
She is appearing on Tuesday’s edition of the Radio 4 series My Teenage Diary, reading out excerpts from her funny and poignant writings…
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Harvy' Notebook 27 Jul 10
Goodbye BBC Asian Network… the battle has been lost and sadly, the station will be tuning out by the end of 2011. It looks like a lot more people couldn’t bare the thought of BBC 6 Music closing.
It will definitely leave a big gap in the British Asian and non-Asian community. It gave a voice to what may have been a voiceless community at times and gave a sense of belonging…
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Bloxidge Tallygraph 25 Jul 10
The run-up to this year’s Bloxwich Carnival picked up pace on Sunday when the 2009 Bloxwich Carnival Queen and Carnival committee members appeared on Carl Chinn’s BBC WM radio show.
Professor Chinn, who also lectures at Birmingham University, welcomed them to the hi-tech Birmingham Mailbox studio in his inimitable style…
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The Stirrer 5 Jul 10
The BBC Trust – chaired by former Birmingham Council chief executive Sir Michael Lyons – has backed Director General Mark Thomspon’s plan to close the national Asian Network radio station based at the Corporation’s Mailbox studios.
The news will come as another blow to the city’s beleagured media industry, still reeling from last week’s announcement that Smooth Radio is relocating to Manchester – although it’s hardly a surprise, given that the threat to the Asian Network has aroused relatively little public outcry compared to 6Music which has been reprieved…
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BBC News 18 May 10
The BBC has apologised after a radio presenter said the Queen had died. Danny Kelly who works for BBC WM in the West Midlands, played the national anthem as he made the joke during his Birmingham-based afternoon show…
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Advertiser 1 May 10
Sixth form pupils eager to forge a career in the media met BBC broadcaster Jeremy Vine last Monday (April 19) to get tips on making it in the media. The pupils from the Pool Hayes and Sneyd 6th Form Partnership met the presenter at Wolverhampton Community Radio, where he was broadcasting his Radio 2 show.
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The Plastic Hippo 6 Mar 10
Some years ago, in the mid 90’s, a gullible bunch of media journalists boarded a specially equipped BBC bus as part of the Radio Academy Festival in Birmingham. Fuelled with Belgian lager and fine French wine served by buxom lovelies, the event was intended to demonstrate the power of Digital Audio Broadcasting, heralding the start of the digital age…
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Jon Bounds 4 Mar 10
The UK Asian radio & Media marketplace is thriving. Zee, TV Asia, Star and a galaxy of local stations like Sunrise & XL are still loud and proud; jostling for advertiser revenue. So why, you ask, is the one British Asian media giant that doesn’t have to worry about sponsorship bailing out in a bull market?
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Lee Jordan’s weblog 1 Mar 10
So as it turns out we’re not yet finished with the complete destruction of digital radio in this country! It seems the corporation who’s history began with radio in the 1920’s, and who championed DAB in the 1990’s, are twisting the knife in DAB’s heartland; niche station choice and eroding any appeal or credibility digital radio currently has remaining…
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Lee Jordan 24 Feb 10
Having always had a facination with radio, I’m a fan of Digital Radio, I think it has a great future if done right but I find the current situation on Digital Radio Switchover in the UK rather baffling…