iPM
- 16 Oct 07, 09:48 AM
We are starting a new programme on Radio Four and we need your help. Actually it’s more like an ongoing conversation on the web that will have a programme attached to it once a week. iPM will rely on its audience to help shape the content through a blog. We will source what we do through the best blogs, passionate 'ear catching' online debate as well as comments and recommendations of others. So what ends up on air will be shaped by listeners and bloggers.
Our intention is to distil the very best of the web to produce a new type of programme that is in the best traditions of أغر؟´«أ½ Radio Four. We'll be as transparent as we can about the ideas and guests that make it to air. Our blog will explain why some ideas and stories get dropped or squeezed out. Also, by posting our rough ideas in front of the audience, we're also inviting the well-informed and blog-savvy to help us develop a particular idea.
So, we're open to all ideas and opinion, alternative takes on stories old and new, and aim to shine a light on issues that are under reported or not considered traditional fare for a news and current affairs programme. With around 61 million blogs, over 125,000 podcasts listed on and seemingly every office in the UK permanently connected to we hope we won't want for ideas.
There have been many attempts to find the missing link between . Think of iPM as a small contribution to that debate. If it fails I can always blame .
iPM the blog is open for business now. iPM the programme will transmit on Radio Four on 10 November at 1730 but you'll be able to listen on demand whenever you want and there will be a podcast too.
Peter Rippon is editor of World at One, PM and Broadcasting House
