Testbed has won cash backing from BBC Audio and Music to develop an idea marking radio’s 90th anniversary next year.
Here’s a miniature programme featuring a 13 year old budding broadcaster called Jeremy Vine.
Just one of ninety 90 second miniatures that will celebrate calibrate and curate the diversity of radio in its widest form in the BBC’s 90th year - serious, funny, evocative, personal, provocative. Extended promos saying “hooray for radio” in 90 very different ways. The idea was pitched in front of an audience of radio professionals and students at BBC Fast Train, to Tony Phillips, BBC Radio 4’s Commissioning Editor for General Factual Programmes. Listen to all the pitches, including our winner here.
Balalaika Born Again
17th April 1130 am
Recorded in Dubrovnik and Moscow, this music documentary follows the fingertips of Russia’s most unusual virtuoso – Alexey Arkhipovsky. He has reinvented the balalaika with a sensitivity that ignores labels like classical, world music and jazz. Have a listen to some of his music:
Which Technology Podcast
The weekly technology podcast that puts consumers before nerds - hit the number one spot on the itunes technology podcast page at the end of March and is still riding high in the charts, and it's featured in What's Hot among the world's tech podcasts.
Horrible Histories Day
BBC Radio 4 Extra
For May Bank Holiday, six hours of Horrible Histories, Directed by Dirk Maggs for Testbed and written by Terry Deary and Nick Baker with a full comedy cast. Originally (and still) available as CD and download. Groovy Greeks, Rotten Romans, Measly Middle Ages, Terrible Tudors, Vile Victorians, Woeful Second World War.
Song By Song By London
BBC World Service starting 23rd June 2012
Robert Elms looks for the musical heart of the city as it celebrates the Cultural Olympiad, and identifies the songs, ancient and modern, that sum up the capital. All together now: Maybe it’s a big horse…