If you don't know, there's currently a season of SF on BBC radio:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/scifiseason/

Coming to a steam-driven wireless near you tonight:

Sunday Feature
BBC Radio 3
Sun 3 Dec, 21:30 - 22:15

Weird Tales: The Strange Life of H P LovecraftGeoff Ward examines the strange life and terrifying world of the man hailed ( Read more... )

The BBC News 24 screw-up where they somehow managed to get a chunky black guy who is clearly not English on screen to comment on the Apple v. Apple thing under the impression they had well known techno-journo Guy Kewney (who is not black, not chunky, and clearly has English as his first language) is about to be featured on Five News, any minute now

Previously we noted the insanity of the BBC’s plans to release the stonking Life On Mars on DVD on Boxing Day. In a quite uncharacterstic burst of sanity, they have responded to the popularity of the programme by bringing the release forward to May 15th. Which is, er, this week next month [see comments for why I boobed]. Cool.

Here it is at Play. ( Read more... )

Radio 3. Good stuff on Radio 3. Don’t like absolutely all of it, but so what? Good music - plus the occasional piece which sounds like an accident in an anvil factory - some of which is jazz and some “world music”, but mostly “classical” (although I must say I share President Bartlet’s doubts about calling something “classical music” when the guy ( Read more... )