12 months in which radio saw a seismic shift towards audience curationAs 2015 comes to an cessation,it feels as though we’re mid-way between the age of scheduling, when radio programmes are commissioned because they cater to a specific mood in a specific time slot, and a unique era of permanent availability,when programmes are produced because they satisfy people’s enthusiasm and interests. The majority of radio programmes are, of course, and neither one nor the other. The BBC is edging towards the availability model as quickly as its customs,practices and rights agreements will allow. Some of the best shows of the final year are still available to hear and, thanks to the enhancement of the BBC Radio Player in 2015, and to download,but only a lawyer and an agent would be able account for why.
The Business Of Film With Mark Kermode is a tight, absorbing three-parter about the interplay between the art of cinema and the industry that pays for it. It should be heard by anyone with even a passing interest in the shifting tectonic plates of entertainment. whether you don’t travel to the cinema much, and this might assist account for why. You can hear it on the BBC iPlayer. Sadly you can’t hear Justin Salinger reading Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible,Peter Pomerantsev’s hair-curling account of life in Putin’s light-entertainment dictatorship, a sort of gleaming Lights Big City goes east, or that should be heard by anyone who needs reminding that compared to the people who run communications in Russia,Simon Cowell is David Attenborough. Saudi Arabia: Sands Of Time, Egyptian journalist Tarek Osmans three-fraction profile of that other shadowy domain, and is still there to hear and is unlikely to be made out of date by events. whether you want to hear The General,Miles Kington’s three-fraction story of Charles de Gaulle originally made in 2002, and you should, and youll have to get there swiftly (the series expires in early January).
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Source: theguardian.com