Posts Tagged ‘Radio’

BBC presenter held in Zimbabwe

Saturday, May 26th, 2012

BBC Radio 3 classical music presenter Petroc Trelawny is arrested in Zimbabwe for not having a work permit.

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AUDIO: ‘Ronald Reagan’s blood’ for sale?

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Radio 5 live asked the director of the Reagan Foundation about the sale of a vial of blood taken from President Reagan.

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AUDIO: ‘Ronald Reagan’s blood’ for sale?

Poll marks UK nuclear waste path

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Results of an opinion poll that could decide the future of the UK’s highly radioactive nuclear waste are to be revealed on Tuesday.

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AUDIO: Re-live Chelsea’s dramatic victory

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

Listen to BBC Radio 5 live’s coverage as Chelsea beat Bayern Munich on penalties to win the Champions League for the first time in their history.

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The man behind D.C.’s Argentine Festival

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

Daniel Manzoni holds the phone in his hand and waits for it to ring. The caller will be a talk-show host from Radio La Jefa (Boss Radio) 700 AM. He will want to hear about the annual Argentine Festival this Saturday evening in Arlington. Manzoni runs the festival as if his life depended on it — which, at a certain existential level, it does. Read full article > >

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Contamination at Kinloss probed

Friday, May 18th, 2012

RAF Kinloss is the focus of a new probe into radioactive contamination, linked to the use of “glow in the dark” paint on WWII aircraft.

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Diamond Jubilee song is unveiled

Friday, May 18th, 2012

The song Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber have created for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations – featuring Prince Harry on tambourine – gets its first airing on Radio 2.

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Cowell is ‘puzzled’ by The Voice

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

The X Factor’s Simon Cowell says he is “puzzled” about why BBC One’s The Voice is not on the radio instead of TV.

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Cowell is ‘puzzled’ by The Voice

Ken Bruce gets best ever audience

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

Radio 2 DJ Ken Bruce has pulled in the biggest audience of his career, according to new figures from Rajar.

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Ken Bruce gets best ever audience

Chavez cancer treatment ‘success’

Saturday, May 12th, 2012

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns from Cuba, saying his radiotherapy treatment for cancer is over and has been successful.

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U.S. government’s Radio and TV Marti call Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega a lackey

Sunday, May 6th, 2012

MEXICO CITY — Criticism of the leader of the Catholic Church in Cuba, who has been negotiating with the communist government to expand religious and political freedom, intensified last week when the head of Radio and TV Marti called the archbishop of Havana a lackey who is colluding with an oppressive regime. Read full article > >

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John Walton, the Caps’ rookie radio voice, puts listeners on the glass

Friday, May 4th, 2012

John Walton can tell you: Calling a hockey game on the radio is unlike any other play-by-play challenge. Whereas baseball gives you time to weave in homespun anecdotes between pitches, and football is eight seconds of violence punctuated by regularly scheduled committee meetings, hockey is like a rolling gang fight — frenetic and sprawling and savage for minutes on end, with the combatants rotating on the fly. Read full article > >

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John Walton, the Caps’ rookie radio voice, puts listeners on the glass

Horrible noises in Radio 4 test

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

A student launches a national experiment to find which noises are the most horrible, as part of a Radio 4 hunt for outstanding amateur scientists.

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Horrible noises in Radio 4 test

In National Archives thefts, a radio detective gets his man

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

NEWTOWN, Conn. — J. David Goldin, an eccentric 69-year-old with a handlebar mustache and an obsession with radio, was trolling eBay one evening in September 2010, looking for old radios and recordings, when he spotted an item that piqued his interest: the master copy of a broadcast radio interview with baseball legend Babe Ruth as he hunted for quail and pheasants on a crisp morning in 1937. Read full article > >

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Radioactive beach warning ignored

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

A confidential report seen by the BBC shows the government was warned of the potential risks of the MoD’s radioactive waste decades ago.

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