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Series catch-up for Radio 4 programmes 3:05pm on 14 Jul 2009 Interesting idea. I know from trying it out on the TV iplayer at a friend's house that it wasn't immediately clear when the series would be taken down again.
Radio 4 goes to university 09:49am on 11 Jul 2009 It would be interesting to try and understand to what extent such marketing worked in the past. When I was studying my Batchelor's degree free R4 tapes were handed out as part of the Intro-week (Freshers week, whatever name it has now) goodie bags. I remember Andy Kershaw featured on the tape, and as an identifiable broadcaster that generated some interest.

Certainly my listening habits were formed by friends when I was around 15 years old, and, sorry but comedy had a large bearing on it. I know it gets panned a bit now, but to me at the time Week Ending was pretty funny. So then you leave the radio on to hear decent news, and you leave it tuned for when you wake up and go to school in the morning, etc.

Of course now I am facing redundancy, I too tend to have the radio on from 7am through to late on in the day. OK, so we do tune over R1 for Zane Lowe, which is brilliant.... but it is always back for the Today programme!

I'd say the Radio 4 roadshows are a good idea. I get very annoyed by the way people often dismiss R4 as 'dead clever' and not for them. To my mind it is a wonderful and beautiful thing which rates very highly amongst the UK's cultural achievements and about which we should be proud. Get the message out there!
Responding to big stories at Radio 4 4:58pm on 29 Jun 2009 Sorry, Mark, good blog, but I have to raise something slightly off kilter....
"Last Thursday evening John Simpson did 'The Report'" Just what is it on R4 these days with all this 'doing'? I wouldn't normally raise it but it seems to happen so much. One can write or read or post or shred or broadcast or any number of things relating to a report, what is actually 'doing it'?
This isn't to pick out Mark as number one offender, but keep your ear open to the Today programme and hear how many times people just 'do' things. It drives me mad.... which in turn drives my wife mad... and we don't want that, so can we go back to correct and expansive English, perhaps?
Oh dear, you're going to think I'm mad. Mind you, that's the kind of bag of worms one opens with blogs and comments and the such ;o)
The Tiananmen Square tank man: full video 09:47am on 09 Jun 2009 Also note the 'timeline' has specific video footage taken in a hospital showing the injured being rushed there (see "3 JUNE - Night of Bloodshed")
The Tiananmen Square tank man: full video 09:42am on 09 Jun 2009 Richard_SM,

I would refer you to this BBC News Online article that addresses your points:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8057762.stm
It is worth a read, noting the comments "There was no Tiananmen Square massacre, but there was a Beijing massacre" and "Protests occurred in almost every city in China (even in a town on the edge of the Gobi desert)"

I would also urge you to check out Kate Adie's recent documentary (last week, I think) in which she revisits the area and story, interviewing some of those actually involved. There was footage of plenty of bodies being brought into the hospitals, and Kate notes that the floors were awash with blood.

For another summary, search for 'BBC's eyewitness to Tianamen' on the BBC News. Also check out the BBC's timeline here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8057148.stm which includes video footage from the time.

Be under no illusion, there were plenty of people shot dead by the Army at that time.
The Complete Smiley 4:30pm on 23 May 2009 Ooh, so close! Not available on iPlayer, sheesh....

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