Laura Barton
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You can't start a fire worryin' about your little world falling apart
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Prospect Magazine
22 days ago
After years of poise and perfection, Lily Allen’s latest album drags pop towards glorious, messy normality, writes
@ladymissbarton.bsky.social.
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The revenge of Lily Allen
After years of poise and perfection, the British singer’s latest album drags pop towards glorious, messy normality
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/71532/the-revenge-of-lily-allen-west-end-girl-david-harbour-taylor-swift
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Wrote a piece on good ol’Bruce for the BBC:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
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BBC Radio 4 - Legend - Five life-changing things that shaped Bruce Springsteen
Laura Barton explains five key things that shaped The Boss’s life and music.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3qKLdcBSPW21qbYKf3c2MTR/five-life-changing-things-that-shaped-bruce-springsteen
about 1 month ago
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Emma Harding
about 2 months ago
Legend: the Bruce
#Springsteen
Story continues today with
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1030 @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds “an informative, contextualising joy” - The Times. Today, Bruce hits the big time. But fame is not an easy bedfellow. Producers Eliza Lomas & Mair Bosworth
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Legend, The Bruce Springsteen Story, 2. Born to Run
Bruce is living above a beauty parlour, broke, writing songs amongst the hairdryers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002l1yx
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Kat Lister
about 2 months ago
I’ve just watched a tribute that Meryl Streep gave to Diane Keaton in which she said that Keaton had “a stream of consciousness like a hummingbird” & my goodness that’s it, that was her entirely.
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Small reminder that this series starts this morning at 10:30 on BBC Radio 4 (and available on BBC Sounds):
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Legend, The Bruce Springsteen Story, 1. My Hometown
Bruce's story begins in the small factory town of Freehold, New Jersey.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kpwl
about 2 months ago
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Ros Taylor
about 2 months ago
Going to channel Tory conference* and say: just rejoice. (*Thatcher was a great admirer of James Lovelock.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po
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Been working on this (alongside the great Mair Bosworth and Eliza Lomas) for months. Apologies to anyone who has tried to speak to me about something other than Bruce Springsteen during this time. Episode One airs Saturday morning:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Legend, The Bruce Springsteen Story, 1. My Hometown
Bruce's story begins in the small factory town of Freehold, New Jersey.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kpwl
about 2 months ago
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Eamonn-Forde
2 months ago
A post about Novel Audio, Chris Atkins and their podcast on EMI and Terra Firma.
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Helen Lewis
3 months ago
I’m a broken record on this, but — there are so many examples of famous people radicalised by midlife career/personal knockbacks. Ant Middleton was on yday’s march. He got done for tax offences and lost his TV work. Now he’s mates with Tommy Robinson.
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Falling Tree Productions
3 months ago
“Nuanced, layered and poetic…” tomorrow night’s BBC Radio 4 Illuminated ‘Where the Distance Shimmers’ is
@radiotimes.bsky.social
documentary pick of the week
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Presented by
@ladymissbarton.bsky.social
Produced by Alan Hall
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O Captain! My Captain!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Andy Burnham says government needs ‘reset’ to become more decisive
Greater Manchester mayor also suggests the cabinet needs to more ‘pluralistic’ and less London-centric
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/07/andy-burnham-says-government-needs-reset-to-become-more-decisive
3 months ago
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Ros Taylor
3 months ago
'Somewhere on the playing fields of England are a handsome boy and a joyful girl who know what to say in their university interviews and already have the confident charm that will mark them out for the rest of their lives. Manners makyth man, as Winchester College’s motto boasts.'
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Prospect Magazine
3 months ago
With country music newly resurgent,
@ladymissbarton.bsky.social
asks: are the US charts having their own Sydney Sweeney moment?
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Sydney Sweeney, genetics and genre
With country music newly resurgent, are the US charts having their own American Eagle moment?
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/70895/sydney-sweeney-genes-genre-beyonce-alex-warren-morgan-wallen
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Peter Ross
4 months ago
My forthcoming talk, at the National Gallery of Scotland, about the stories & glories of graveyards is fully booked. But you are welcome to join us online, for free, if you like. It's at 12.45pm on Tuesday August 5. Here is the link for booking:
www.nationalgalleries.org/event/peter-...
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Samira Ahmed
4 months ago
Been discussing the Making of Five Leaves Left with Cally Callomon from the Nick Drake estate and
@ladymissbarton.bsky.social
for tonight's BBC Front Row. Also Petra Volpe on Heldin/Night Shift & Richard Stilgoe on Tom Lehrer & Cleo Laine 715pm R4 or link after:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Padraig Reidy
5 months ago
Broadcast Kneecap from Glastonbury, but voiced by an actor
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Prospect Magazine
6 months ago
When a fan sent musician Nick Cave AI-generated lyrics in his style, he replied: “With all the love and respect in the world, this track is bullshit and a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human.” @ladymissbarton.bsky.social on what AI might do to songwriting.
www.prospectmagazine...
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How can songwriters survive in the age of AI?
The music industry was already an unforgiving place. Now it’s going to become a whole lot more difficult for new artists
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/70196/songwriters-in-the-age-of-generative-ai-dove-ellis-tyler-ballgame-charli-xcx-nick-cave
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Bex Luther
7 months ago
Not many people know that e e cummings was actually born t-mobile cummings
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Birmingham 81
7 months ago
Here's a playlist of seven great versions of Roadrunner going back to 1972. Roadrunner Thrice is a particular fave
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
And this article by
@ladymissbarton.bsky.social
about "rock's most thrilling song" is a fantastic read (THREAD) 👀
www.theguardian.com/music/2007/j...
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Roadrunner - Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers - YouTube
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq7YVAStYYmnlMtNyqFOhy9synk7M6KGT&si=E3C6laoQu2dEyFtn
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And in case anyone else was confused about this, I was not in any way saying that Christine Feldman-Barrett was not an expert on the Beatles
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7 months ago
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I wrote about men and the Beatles for
@the-independent.com
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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The Beatles biopic is being brought to us by a trio of white men – how boring
As three male writers are announced as the people behind the new, four-part Beatles biopic – along with director Sam Mendes and stars including Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan – Laura Barton asks why wo...
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/beatles-movie-biopic-women-b2748017.html
7 months ago
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Prospect Magazine
7 months ago
When industry falls silent, more than jobs are lost… @ladymissbarton.bsky.social on how a nation’s cultural identity is forged alongside its steel:
www.prospectmagazine...
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If the steel industry dies, culture will too
Just listen: the UK’s industrial areas have their own noises, rhythms and songs.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/69855/if-the-steel-industry-dies-culture-will-too-billy-bragg-sleaford-mods-lisa-oneill
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Like a middle-aged version of the Telegraph’s A-level results day coverage
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7 months ago
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Eamonn-Forde
8 months ago
I am on here facing down my arch nemesis
@ladymissbarton.bsky.social
and stinking up the “airwaves” on Radio 4. From 2hrs 56 minutes. Already 45 people have cancelled their licence fee in protest at the BBC giving me “the oxygen of publicity”.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Today - 07/04/2025 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029rl2?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Tim LeRoy
8 months ago
Hat tip to
@ladymissbarton.bsky.social
for this wee gem to remember Val Kilmer. We all know Lou needed it.
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Prospect Magazine
8 months ago
Will Oasis’s return help bring about a much-needed cultural kind of devolution? ✍🏼 @ladymissbarton.bsky.social
www.prospectmagazine...
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Oasis and music’s North-South divide
Will the band’s return help bring about a much-needed cultural kind of devolution?
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/69640/oasis-and-musics-north-south-divide
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Team Love Records
8 months ago
the sky is a scratchedtofuck record
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Falling Tree Productions
8 months ago
The work of musician and writer Pierre Boulez, who would have turned 100 this week, ends our current series of Afterwords on BBC Radio 3 tonight Produced by Alan Hall with
@phoebemcindoe.bsky.social
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I spoke to Jeff Bridges for today’s
@theguardian.com
and he was every bit as excellent as one would hope:
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
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‘Emotions? They’re no big thing, man!’ Jeff Bridges on satisfaction, silver linings – and his secret life in music
As his lost 70s songs emerge, the Oscar-winner and musician explains how the magic of art keeps him upbeat even after losing homes to LA fires
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/mar/21/emotions-theyre-no-big-thing-man-jeff-bridges-on-satisfaction-silver-linings-and-his-secret-life-in-music
9 months ago
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Prospect Magazine
9 months ago
“Not for me,” said Ben Folds as he resigned from the Kennedy Center after Trump’s takeover. @ladymissbarton.bsky.social explores how both men built careers as outsiders—with vastly different visions for American culture.
www.prospectmagazine...
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Trump, meet Ben Folds
The musician, who stepped down from a denuded Kennedy Center, has something to teach the president
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/69403/ben-folds-donald-trump-and-the-kennedy-center
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This was exceptional radio:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, No Blacks No Irish
A personal ear-popping history of Irish and Caribbean people through culture and society.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028kwb
9 months ago
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Falling Tree Productions
10 months ago
Pick of the day in
@radiotimes.bsky.social
, Robben Island’s Hallelujah airs at 4pm on BBC Radio 4 Produced by
@catherineboulle.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Robin Allender
10 months ago
On this month’s Allender Calendar I had the great pleasure of talking to the comedian Josie Long about her brilliant book of short stories Because I Don’t Know What You Mean and What You Don’t
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The Allender Calendar: Episode 6: Josie Long
This month I chat to the amazing comedian, writer and activist Josie Long about her book of short stories Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't. Josie's stories are rich and varied ...
https://pod.fo/e/2ab3ec
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Dani Garavelli
10 months ago
"At the age of 37, she knew she'd found forever, as she rode along through Paris with the warm wind in her hair." So long, Marianne x
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jNr...
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Marianne Faithfull - The ballad of Lucy Jordan 1980
YouTube video by fritz51338
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jNrKMV3eCs
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I love writing for this magazine
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10 months ago
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Bonnie “Prince” Billy for
@the-independent.com
- what a joyful, fascinating conversation:
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: ‘I wrote a song that made my legs turn to jelly’
Laura Barton talks to Will Oldham about recording with some of his heroes, how he writes for his alter ego, and why a song about gun deaths made his legs turn to jelly
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/bonnie-prince-billy-interview-the-purple-bird-b2686972.html?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaa__ytR8mB42YzsETSRkxkaKnSoO9iUA50cbLP6zlSdO1-rd8YpadMKc5g_aem_pjORtAZFuSFRoiJCb7AgZg
10 months ago
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Falling Tree Productions
10 months ago
Happy 80th to Robert Wyatt! Back in 2012, Alan Hall created this radio portrait with him…
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
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BBC Radio 4 - The Voices of..., Robert Wyatt
An intimate portrait of the musician Robert Wyatt in his own words and music.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n11cz#:~:text=This%20intimate%20radio%20portrait%2C%20in,celebrated%20musical%20projects%20that%20are
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I absolutely loved speaking to Joe Boyd for this piece about A the Roots of Rhythm Remain - what a life, what a book! Pictures by the peerless
@sarahmlee.bsky.social
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10 months ago
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Prospect Magazine
11 months ago
🎶 @ladymissbarton.bsky.social’s list of the top 10 albums of 2024 is short n’ sweet... and so is one of its entries.
www.prospectmagazine...
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Pop Albums of the Year: 2024
From Nick Cave to Sabrina Carpenter, here are our critic’s top ten albums of the year
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/68951/pop-albums-of-the-year-2024
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I interviewed the incredible Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory for the latest Uncut - it’s a particularly brilliant edition of the magazine this month. Available in shops or order online!
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11 months ago
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Peter Ross
11 months ago
"There is an intimate moment when a digger finds something, when it is just them and the object and the hovering ghost of whoever touched it last." Delighted to write about
@nessofbrodgar.bsky.social
for
@smithsonianmag.bsky.social
. Pictures by Kieran Dodds.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/disc...
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Discover the Astounding Secrets of Scotland's Stone Age Settlements
In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable Neolithic discoveries
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/discover-astounding-secrets-scotlands-stone-age-settlements-180985627/
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Falling Tree Productions
11 months ago
"Without this program, I would not have been exposed to the global tapestry of audio alchemists and sculptors... to lose it is like having a precious node suddenly switched off, phantom-searching for a home frequency..."
podcastthenewsletter.substack.com/p/sad-to-say...
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🌜Sad to Say Goodnight to Short Cuts✨
Good night and joy be with you all.
https://podcastthenewsletter.substack.com/p/sad-to-say-goodnight-to-short-cuts
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Falling Tree Productions
11 months ago
“This is a moment in radio history and not a good one, as the final episode of Short Cuts on Radio 4 airs. After 40 series of extraordinary, groundbreaking audio…” -
@radiotimes.bsky.social
Pick of the Week 🌙 Listen to ‘Midnight’ - the last edition of
@josielong.bsky.social
's Short Cuts on Radio 4
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Really wish Meghan’s new Netflix show had been a celebrity version of My Drunk Kitchen
11 months ago
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Falling Tree Productions
11 months ago
It’s the night before the night before Christmas so we’ll be listening to Seymour Sarnoff’s story of his decades-long quest to write the perfect festive song… Made by
@alexjrlewis.bsky.social
for the first ever
@josielong.bsky.social
Short Cuts Christmas special -
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
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BBC Radio 4 - Short Cuts, Series 14, Christmas
Josie Long hears new documentaries set at Christmas.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jd67d
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This morning I’m joining the Winter Solstice pop-up on Amateurism Radio, from, erm, RIGHT NOW til 11:30am:
www.amateurism.co.uk
11 months ago
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Impeccable radio:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
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BBC Sounds - County Lines - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of County Lines on BBC Sounds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0025d4r?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
about 1 year ago
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I fucking love being a middle class woman of a certain age
about 1 year ago
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I wrote about fentanyl, homelessness, mental health care, Portland, Oregon and my friend Evan B Harris, for
@theguardian.com
amp.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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My friend was a popular, promising artist - how did he end up on the streets of Portland, addicted and dangerous? | Drugs | The Guardian
When I first met Evan B Harris he was fizzing with talent and kindness. So I was shocked to hear he had become homeless and out of control. What happened to him is a story playing out in cities across...
https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/30/evan-b-harris-portland-addiction-homelessness-america
about 1 year ago
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Some of audio’s finest have put together this open letter urging BBC Radio 4 to reconsider their position on Short Cuts. You can sign it here:
tinyurl.com/34pn38m4
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Letter to the BBC Regarding the Cancellation of Short Cuts
Dear Mohit, Hugh and Eleanor, We are devastated by the news of the BBC’s cancellation of Short Cuts. In a time where audio imaginations are being squashed by commercial realities, Short Cuts has bee...
https://tinyurl.com/34pn38m4
about 1 year ago
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