✒ Chaos is currently the order of the day in radio arts programmes, where eyes appear to be off the ball – what could be distracting them?
A week later she was dead... Philip French remembers Plath's last days In 1962, I was the producer of the BBC's flagship radio arts programme, The Critics, broadcast every Sunday on the Home Service (later Radio 4) at 12.10pm and drawing an audience of more than two million.
The show is broadcast weekly (and can also be downloaded afterwards) on Resonance FM, which describes itself as "the world's first radio art station, established by London Musicians' Collective...to provide a radical alternative to the universal formulae of mainstream broadcasting".
Britain's First Black Circus Gets a Live Radio Art Tribute.
Sometimes, they are banned from having televisions, radios, art supplies and even reading materials in their cells.
Sadly, the last time I saw him was a couple of years ago at the party celebrating us both getting music shows on Art Internatinal Radio aka Art On Air http://artonair.org His shows are archived there.
The impact of this tug-of-language between women and men was shown when, two years ago, an art critic during a live edition of a Radio 4 arts programme was describing a photograph of a chicken.
More André Breton than Cotton Mather, Shields sets out "to write the ars poetica for a burgeoning group of interrelated (but unconnected) artists in a multitude of forms and media (lyric essay, prose poem, collage novel, visual art, film, television, radio, performance art, rap, stand-up comedy, graffiti) who are breaking larger and larger chunks of 'reality' into their work".
After launching on The Radio 2 Arts Show on 10 April, the artist in residence initiative will be discussed until the search closes a month later.
In 1981, I had to stand in at last moment as chairman of my Saturday evening Radio Three arts programme, Critics' Forum, when her collected poems appeared.
At the same time, she became a presenter on an early BBC radio weekly arts review, interviewing, among others, the Beatles.
