
09/11/2012
Digital radio on the move - is it worth converting the car? ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ East's Naked Scientists get the chop, and listeners restore missing gems to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s archive. With Roger Bolton.
Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your views on the things you hear on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio.
Can the future of radio really be digital when only 5% of the UK's 34 million vehicles have digital car radios? Earlier this week the Drive 2 Digital conference aimed to spread D-Love about digital on the move, but Feedback listeners still have questions. Roger invites one listener to join Tim Davie, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Director of Audio and Music, and Ford of Britain's Steve Humbles to find out more about DAB coverage at home and on the move.
And Feedback's postbag has been brimming over with messages of alarm after ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ East announced it would be axing its popular The Naked Scientists programme from January. "Vital for public understanding of science", "making listeners more science literate", were just some of the things said about the programme. But does it fulfil the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s remit for local radio? Mick Rawsthorne, Head of Local and Regional Programming for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ East, doesn't think so.
Finally, where would the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ be without its listeners? Well it would certainly have some bigger gaps in its archive. No 'Music While You Work' or John Peel's early 'Top Gear' Radio 1 shows. That is, at least, until the Listeners' Archive was launched to mark the Corporation's 90th birthday. Since then, home-grown recordings have been sent into the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ to help plug the gaps. We meet the team sifting through the gems.
Presenter: Roger Bolton
Producer: Kate Taylor
A Whistledown production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4.
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Feedback: Future of Digital Radio
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- Fri 9 Nov 2012 16:30ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
- Sun 11 Nov 2012 20:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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