radio

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4.2 Reasons To See Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy On Stage

Don’t panic. There are still tickets…

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Cuts To BBC London Radio: A Cabbie’s View

Taxi driver John Kennedy puts the case for supporting our local BBC station at a time of cuts.

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Comedy Interview: John Finnemore

We caught up John Finnemore and asked about sketch nights, the creative process and what the big deal is with radio.

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TONIGHT: Cafe Calcio London Football Special

Football rivalries, club histories and odd London locations associated with the game tonight on Resonance FM.

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Review: Clocks and Clouds, In The Dark All Dayer

The very best of audio, in the historic Toynbee Hall.

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Preview: Clocks and Clouds – In The Dark Audio All-dayer

Indulge your ears in dark, cinema-like surroundings…

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Live Weekend Preview: Last of the Red Wine @ ICA

Three episodes of an arty radio sit-com are currently being devised, rehearsed and will be performed live at the ICA this weekend.

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Happy Birthday BBC London 94.9

Proving that video really didn’t kill the radio star, the 40th anniversary of the Beeb’s London radio station will be celebrated today with a lunchtime classic clips show presented by airwave legend, Tony Blackburn. Now known as BBC London 94.9, the station has been providing …

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Big Ben Has Fallen: The First Big Radio Hoax

“The clock tower, 320 feet in height, has just fallen to the ground, together with the famous clock Big Ben, which used to strike the hours on a bell weighing nine tons,” so proclaimed Ronald Knox in a radio news hoax that predated the famous …

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Londonist Stays In: 25-31 January

The most Londony shows on TV and radio this week. Monday A History of the World in 100 objects (Radio 4, 19.45-20.00) Relics from the first attempts at cookery, from the British Museum. Inside Out (BBC1, 19.30-20.00) Dan Cruickshank investigates the archaeological remains of Shakespeare’s …

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Terry Wogan To Raise Tower Bridge

Keep an eye on @towerbridge on Twitter this morning as its usual “I am opening…” “I am closing…” will be spiced up by the intervention of Sir Terry of Wogan taking over the controls as he receives the Freedom of London in a special ceremony …