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BBC Unveils
Radioplayer
The BBC and commercial radio today unveiled a new online
radio player that aims to offer the output of every licensed UK radio
station and to let users search this content by subject, musical style, or
even song title.
The UK Radioplayer, due for launch early next year, is a pop-up console
which will be open to stream more than 400 licensed national, local,
community and student radio stations, offering a unique, constantly updated
live and on-demand audio service.
It allows listeners to search every station on the UK Radioplayer network,
identifying news programmes, sports highlights, musical genres or even
individual songs, using a revolutionary new search engine designed for
radio.
Users can store their favourite stations on pre-set buttons, for easy
access.
The player is launched through radio stations' websites, where the console
presents a simple, consistent experience and encourages listeners to
discover new content. It has a standard look and functionality, irrespective
of which station is being listening to.
Stations which choose to join the Radioplayer will have the freedom to
accompany their live streams with additional material of their choice –
on-demand audio, click-to-buy music services, webcams, track listings,
adverts or the weather, for example.
In the first instance, the service will be made available to all
Ofcom-licensed networks.
It will initially be available through desktop computers, with later
versions intended for smartphones and other internet-connected devices like
IPTVs.
All BBC radio services will be included in the player, subject to the
Corporation's approvals process.
The UK Radioplayer follows discussions in the Radio Council about how the
industry might deliver cross-sector digital projects. The player will be
launched subject to consultation with the BBC Trust and RadioCentre board.
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November 19 2009 - waveguide.co.uk
Reader Comment
I wonder if they'll consider opening it up to UK internet
stations. There was a guy on 'You and yours' on R4 a week ago who was
trying to set up a similar site for UK i'net stations currently broadcasting
as pirates in the hope of making them legal.
He says he ran into a catch 22 when he contacted the copyright bodies about
how much it would cost him and they said it wasn't worth their while trying
to collect money from stations with listenerships in single figures and
recommended he first set the site up to see if he got sufficient coverage to
make it worth their while.
He pointed out that this would make him a pirate, and they agreed that he
would indeed be breaking the law...
- Deke.
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Norman
Painting's Final Episode
Listeners to BBC Radio 4's The Archers will be able to hear
Norman Painting's last episode this Sunday, recorded just two days before
the actor died last month.
Norman's scenes take place in the warm kitchen of Glebe Cottage, as Phil and
Jill enjoy a traditional Stir-Up Sunday with two of their seven
grandchildren. Amidst the familiar banter, Phil, Jill and Ruth make plans
for the forthcoming Christmas festivities, while grandsons Josh and Ben
enjoy helping Jill with her famous puddings and cakes.
Vanessa Whitburn, Editor of The Archers, said: "It has been of great comfort
to me and the rest of Norman's friends that he was able to carry on
recording the programme he loved, right up until the end of his life."
She added: "It seems fitting that Norman's final scenes should perfectly
reflect the character he had brought Phil to become; a grandfather and a
family man, with a mischievous sense of humour, and an active interest in
the workings of his much-loved farm, Brookfield."
Norman Painting played the role of Phil Archer continuously for nearly 60
years, from the pilot episode in 1950.
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The Real Spooks
A new one-off ITV documentary focuses on the work of MI5.
MI5 was an organisation so secret that for decades, it did
not officially exist. Television fiction has highlighted and glamorised the
work of the organisation for years.
For the first time in its 100-year history, MI5 has opened its top-secret
files to uncover the truth about key episodes in Britain’s history.
This programme delves into those archives to explain how MI5 traitor Anthony
Blunt could have changed the course of the war and ruined the success of
D-Day.
It also reveals facts, which may surprise viewers, surrounding the
allegations that former MI5 director Roger Hollis and Trade Union Leader
Jack Jones were Soviet Agents, that Prime Minister Harold Wilson was under
surveillance and events surrounding the death of three IRA members in
Gibraltar.
The programme also includes an exclusive, television interview with a former
MI5 Director General and a KGB Colonel turned British Agent.
MI5: The Real Spooks is transmitted on Monday, December 07.
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Poirot Cast
Announced Award-winning
actress Dame Eileen Atkins and Barbara Hershey will star in a new TV
adaption of Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express.
David Suchet, who has played Hercule Poirot for 21
years, will return as the moustachioed Belgian detective.
Producer Karen Thrussell said the story is the
"most ingenious and best loved Agatha Christie title of all time".
The adaption will be filmed on location in London
and Malta.
The story follows Poirot's fateful journey from
Istanbul to Belgrade, where he is called upon to solve the murder of
ruthless American businessman Samuel Ratchett.
Samuel West and Hugh Bonneville have also been
cast to star in the adaption.
The novel, which was first published in 1934, was
made into a film in 1974 with Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall and Sean
Connery.
Suchet has just finished making four other
forthcoming Poirot films for ITV, including Appointment with Death,
The Clocks, Three Act Tragedy and Hallowe'en Party.
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