The Air This Week

2012-02-15T02:40:00.000-08:00

* * RICHARD BUELL, who compiles this website (as well as Ear Trumpet Music Log, Ear Trumpet, and euthymia) can be reached at rbuell@verizon.net

2012-02-12T02:46:00.000-08:00

"Big changes are happening to the airwaves, part of the frenetic technological revolution that's been unleashed by the development of a digital language. Radio, against expectations, is proving itself a vital force in these times, because it's flexible, adaptable, and still compelling. The human voice, the imagination of sound, will endure when perhaps TV will fade out, evolving into another kind of internet exchange."

-- Kate Chisholm, The Spectator (London), 26 March 2011.

"I have dear friends in New York who are almost ready to move to London for the sake of [BBC] Radio Four."

-- Diana Athill, "Somewhere Towards the End" (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008).

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2012-02-12T00:15:00.000-08:00

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * THROUGHOUT THE WEEK * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

4:45 a.m. Book of the Week (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC Radio 4)

5:45 a.m. Woman's Hour Drama (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC Radio 4)

6-11 a.m. Classical music (daily) WPRB) ..... 6 a.m. Konsertsal London (NRK Klassisk)

7 a.m. Composer of the Week (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC Radio 3)

8 a.m. The World at One (BBC Radio 4) ..... 8 a.m. Lunchtime Concert (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC Radio 3) ..... 8 a.m. Concert de l'apres-midi (Mon.-Fri.) (France Musique) ..... 8:05 a.m. Cantabile (Mon.-Fri.) (BR-Klassik)

9 a.m.-1 p.m. Cathy Fuller (Mon.-Fri.) (Classical New England)

9-11 a.m. Musique d'abord (Mon.-Fri.) (RSR Espace 2) ..... 9 a.m. Afternoon on 3 (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC Radio 3) ..... 9:05 a.m. Pour le Piano -- Tastenspiele (Mon.-Fri.) (BR-Klassik)

9:15 a.m. Afternoon Play (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC Radio 4)

10:30 a.m. Concert (Mon.-Fri.) (DR Klassisk)

Noon Noon Here and Now/Robin Young (Mon.-Fri.) (WBUR) ..... Noon Democracy Now! (Mon.-Fri.) (WZBC) ..... 12:05 p.m. Concert (Mon.-Fri.) ( (BR-Klassik)

1 p.m. Six O'Clock News (daily) (BBC Radio 4) ..... 1 p.m. New Generation Artists (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC Eadio3) ..... 1 p.m. Fresh Air/Terry Gross (Mon.-Fri.) (WBUR)

1 p.m. In Performance (Mon.-Fri.) (99.5)

1-10 p.m. Classical music programming (daily) (WHRB)

1:15 p.m. A Point of View (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC Radio 4)

1:30 p.m. The Voice (Mon.-Fri.) (rbb Kultturradio)

2 p.m. Avondconcert (Mon.-Fri.) (Netherlands Radio 4) ..... 2 p.m. Le concert du soir (Mon.-Fri.) (France Musique) ..... 2 p.m. Concert (Mon.-Fri.) Deutschlandradio Kultur) ..... 2 p.m. Concert (Mon.-Fri.) (NDR Kultur) ..... 2 p.m. Concert (Mon.-Fri.) (SR 2) ..... 2 p.m. Concert (Mon.-Fri.) (SWR 2) ..... 2 p.m. Concert (Mon.-Fri.) (WDR 3)

2:15 p.m. Front Row (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC Radio 4)

2:30 p.m. Radio 3 Live in Concert (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC Radio 3)

2:45 p.m. Woman's Hour Drama (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC Radio 4)

3-6 p.m. Lyric Concert (Mon.-Fri.) (RTE Lyric FM)

3 p.m. Radio Boston (Mon.-Fri.) (WBUR)

4 p.m. The World (Mon.-Fri.) (Mon.-Fri.) (WGBH) ..... 4 p.m. Concert (Mon.-Fri.) NRK Klassisk) ..... 4 p.m. Grande Auditorio (Mon.-Fri.) (RTP Antena ) ..... 4 p.m. Breakfast (ABC National) ..... 4:45 p.m. Woman's Hour Drama (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC Radio 4)

5 p.m. Night Waves (Mon.-Thurs.) (BBC Radio 3)

5 p.m. The World Tonight (BBC Radio 4) ..... 5 p.m. Recorded-live orchestra concerts (NYPO, Chicago, Concertgebouw, SymphonyCast) (Mon.-Thurs.) (WYSU)

5:45 p.m. Book at Bedtime (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC Radio 4)

5:45 p.m. The Essay (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC Radio 3) ..... 6 p.m. Late Junction/Fiona Talkington (Tues.-Thurs.) (BBC Radio 3)

6:05 p.m.-midnight ARD Nachtkonzert (daily) (Bayern 4 Klassik etc.)

6:30 p.m. Marketplace (Mon.-Fri.) (WBUR)

7 p.m. Midnight News (daily) (BBC Radio 4) ..... 7:15 p.m. A Point of View (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC Radio 4) ..... 7:30 p.m. Book of the Week (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC Radio 4) ..... 7:48 p.m. Shipping forecast (daily) (BBC Radio 4)

7 p.m.-1 a.m. Through the Night/Jonathan Swain (daily) (BBC Radio 3) ..... 8 p.m. Musica contemporanea (daily) (RTP Antena 2) ..... 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Classical Music with Jim Svejda (Mon.-Fri.) (KUSC)

8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. De Nacht (daily) (Netherlands Radio 4)

9 p.m.-2 a.m. Mandraguda (Sun.-Fri.) (RTP Antena 2)

9 p.m. Recorded-live orchestra concerts (Mon.-Thurs.) (KOHM)

9 p.m.-midnight Tuned to Yesterday (Tues.-Sun.) (WRVO) ..... 9 p.m. Fresh Air/Terry Gross (Mon.-Fri.) (WBUR)

10-11 p.m. The Diane Rehm Show (WBUR)

11 p.m. New Sounds/John Schaefer (daily) (WNYC)

Note. Opera, choral music, and the art song are broadcast round the clock by Viva La Voce, new-music programming by Counterstream Radio

This update 27 Dec 2011

2010-12-06T01:56:00.000-08:00

* A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS *

About: here. The program itself: here.

See also: Peter Campbell in the London Review of Books 18 November 2010 -- here. And Mary Beard, in The Guardian/Books 12 November 2010 -- here.

2010-09-12T01:53:00.000-07:00

Talking about books.

On the radio.

How it should be done -- here