Simon O'Hagan
Writer at Radio Times
Writing about radio at Radio Times and elsewhere. Previous life at The Times and The Independent.
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4 days ago |
simonohagan.substack.com | Simon O'Hagan
Alfred Hitchcock’s decree that the length of a film should be “directly related to the endurance of the human bladder” no longer really applies now that so much entertainment is home entertainment and we can pause movies whenever we feel like it, but we all know that there are artistic benefits to working within limits.
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1 week ago |
simonohagan.substack.com | Simon O'Hagan
The friendly dealings I’ve had with Jeremy Vine over the years date back to when I was an editor at The Independent and commissioned him to write a piece about how his career got going. The idea for the feature was “Alumni of local newspapers”, and because I knew that Jeremy had started out as a trainee reporter on the Coventry Evening Telegraph, he was admirably qualified to contribute.
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1 week ago |
simonohagan.substack.com | Simon O'Hagan
One of BBC radio’s first ever live broadcasts, in 1924, featured the song of a nightingale as it “duetted” with a cellist called Beatrice Harrison in woodland near her home in Surrey. A huge hit with the — as it were — fledgling audience, the programme established not just the appeal of birdsong on the radio, but a tradition that continues to this day. Tweet of the Day has been a fixture on Radio 4 since 2013 – a two-minute reverie with a seemingly limitless cast of bird characters.
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2 weeks ago |
inews.co.uk | Simon O'Hagan
His father was in a punk band that once supported The Stranglers. His mother was really into Black Sabbath. His grandfather told him terrifying stories of 19th-century violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini, and instructed him to “never listen to anything other than Radio 3”. Such was the bewildering mosaic of musical passions that Tom McKinney encountered when he was growing up, to which his response, perhaps not surprisingly, was equally individual.
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2 weeks ago |
simonohagan.substack.com | Simon O'Hagan
Petroc Trelawny is presenting his last ever Breakfast show on Radio 3. I’m listening to it at the moment and I don’t think I’ve ever felt sadder about anyone’s programme coming to an end. His stint on Breakfast has lasted 14 years. During that time he’s entered a lot of people’s hearts. He’s done it quite unobtrusively.
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“Margaret Drabble is writing a memoir” are words to brighten any day, @TheTLS https://t.co/irbOOuwk19
RT @classicjacko: It’s the first day of a new era for @BBCRadio3 Breakfast — and this piece in @theipaper by @SimonOHagan offers a warm and…
Banton with a A, Mr Autocorrect.
@SomersetCCC Amazing. Congratulations, Mr Benton. Has a triple hundred ever been scored in English first-class cricket this early in the season?
