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Simon Elmes is Creative Director of the BBC's Radio Documentaries Unit.

Incluye los nombres: Simon Elwes, Simon Elwes

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UK
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radio historian
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A Celebration of the World's Best Radio Station

I was bound to enjoy this book, as I'm a big fan of Radio 4 - when I'm at home there are various radios around the house tuned in (even if this does mean a strange affect from the delay of DAB radios). I started listening in about 2002, I'd just finished university my partner at the time was a Radio 4 devotee, and along with reading The Guardian newspaper (which I also do, but did before too) it was the thing that archaeologists do.

Over the years since I've learnt so much from the station - I get my news, my current affairs, my knowledge and my entertainment from this station. I don't have a television, so Radio 4 really is my window on the world. So, this book gave me a history of the station that accompanies my every day.

Little stories from different presenters (particularly funny are the stories from Charlotte Green, who I've heard get the giggles on a number of memorable occasions), the programmes that have been on but didn't make it, the different controllers and the changes they've made to the running order and the programmes themselves - all add some depth and history to the programmes I listen to.

I've learnt how the schedule has changed substantially since the station began in 1967, how when it began there was a lot of music (now there is very little - as I write this I'm listening to Mozart on one of the few programmes which has been there since the beginning and still contains music - Desert Island Discs), how the wars in the Falklands and Iraq changed the face of the station (more news), and settling down of the schedule to what I know today.

I particularly enjoyed reading about The Archers (a guilty pleasure but not one I'm a slave to!), and my absolute favourite bit of the station (which I don't hear often) - The Shipping Forecast.
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Ms.Moll | Sep 10, 2010 |
I started reading this on holiday and never finished it. I put a page from the Witney Gazette in the book as a marker at page 126. It (the Witney Gazette) was dated September 20th 2006. Also inserted in the book is a cutting from the Canary Islands Island Connection newspaper, 30th September 2006, with an article on `Gomera's whistled language honoured'. So, Sherlock, yes, I got up to page 126 and I was on holiday in Tenerife in September 2006.
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