A great podcast! There’s the Story, of course, but so much else - a matter of life and death, lies, political cover-ups & human vulnerability. “There is no fresh light… no reflection in Lord Heseltine.” Andrew O’Hagan is at ease at the mic, in interview and handling the details!

LFB photographer Chris Taylor's experience, personal & professional, of being caught up in the 1999 Admiral Duncan nail bombing is at the centre of a BBC Radio 4 doc at buff.ly/4b6X1hl – features Chris's deep reflections on the journo's observer/participant mixed roles.

For anyone who didn't know Britain in the 70s and the early years of Thatcher's premiership, Riz Ahmed's series Defiance: Fighting the Far Right on
Channel 4 captures the institutionalised injustice searingly.
From Rogan Productions & Left Handed Films. roganproductions.co.uk/project/defian…

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We urge CPM's executive leadership and board to immediately save Vocalo programming. This is What Chicago Sounds Like, Mornings with Bekoe, the 5 O’Clock Mix are essential programs this city can’t afford to lose. pls sign pls share!
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In The Belgrano Diary from London Review of Books, Andrew O'Hagan does an amazing job of dealing with the cynicism and lies of politicians (including, of course, Margaret Thatcher herself), before and after the deaths of 323 men.
lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-v…

Our BBC Radio 4 documentary about how we process an event as vicious as the far-right terror campaign in April 1999, the London nail bombings, is now in the Seriously feed on BBC Sounds. With Jonathan Cash, Chris Taylor, Leo Epstein and Emdad Talukder.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h…

25 years after The London Nail Bombings, playwright JONATHAN CASH (The First Domino) recalls this traumatic event bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Latest Herald Mag & Arts Radio Review: Courtney Love's insider anecdotes and Falling Tree Radio's riveting, horrifying account of the 1999 London Nail Bombings:
heraldscotland.com/life_style/art…

It is brilliant.

I’m in the process of starting an international association that offers programs for audio producers/journalists/artists/documentarians. There’s an open call for pieces rn. Holler if you’ve got questions. More info at theecco.org

One to listen out for …

Thinking of so many of my friends who will love this. Eg James MacMillan john milbank Paul Lay. For it’s an absolutely compelling look under the hood of Gavin Bryars JBNFMY: its compositional, cultural & musical origins; its multiple spiritual resonances
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Evening listening: this inspiring feature from ⁦Falling Tree Radio⁩ about one of my favourite pieces of music. ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ ⁦BBC Sounds⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…