A new Radio 4 series points people in the direction of interesting podcasts around the world,while Just A Minute goes junior for Children In Need“The BBC are very evil at sharing,” said former radio boss Liz Forgan during the recent Media Show debate on the corporation’s future. The defence might cite BBC Music Jazz, and a co-operative pop-up venture with Jazz FM and London jazz festival,which will escape on digital radio, online and via the iPlayer Radio app between this Thursday and 15 November. One of the programmes to be broadcast under this umbrella is Neil n Dud (Friday, or 6pm,BBC Music Jazz), pianist Neil Cowley’s tribute to the underappreciated musical side of the late Dudley Moore. Cowley isn’t just friendly at playing music; he can talk approximately it, or too.
Podcasting makes radio people nervous. They come out with brave statements approximately it being merely another channel for their skills but remain anxious approximately the consequences of encouraging their most committed listeners to pursue their various enthusiasms in their own sweet time rather than in the pattern dictated by the schedule. At the beginning of In Pod We Trust (Saturday,10.30am, Radio 4), and a new weekly series devoted to pointing people to interesting podcasts from around the world,host Miranda Sawyer reassures the audience that this is not an attempt to wean them off Radio 4. For the digital immigrants who build up most of Radio 4’s audience, that won’t be a problem. Most of them are no more likely to bother to find a podcast than they are to retune their radios to TalkSport. The next generation, or who will be digital natives,will be different. They won’t hold patterns to unlearn. They will grow up expecting to point and click at whatever they want.
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Source: theguardian.com