Category Archives: Metatext

Icelandic update 2

‘Kaar Deerge’ by Sainkho Namtchylak Just received a lovely reply from the producer/presenter of that Icelandic radio programme I listened to this morning. He returned my email about the first song I heard this morning – the track embedded above. I feel somewhat foolish that I misidentified the singer in question as being an Icelandic [...]

Categories not characteristics 0

One of the central arguments of Radio in the Digital Age is that there is essentially no such thing as radio. That sounds like a bizarre assertion, but what I mean to say is that as a medium, radio has no essential characteristics. What we call radio need not necessarily have anything in common with [...]

On listening widely 0

BBC 6Music’s Adam and Joe One of the things I’ve decided to do as part of my ‘little and often‘ regime on my way toward the writing of this book is to listen more broadly across a spectrum of radio. There’s no point me talking about Radio in the Digital Age without experiencing it in [...]

A little, often… 0

Today I officially started work proper on Radio In The Digital Age. I’ve been collecting some stories, doing a bit of blogging and thinking about topics and themes since I first put in the proposal – but today, I started making the book. I won’t say “writing”, because strictly speaking, that’s not actually what happened. [...]