Round up, Friday 12 February 2010: Space, the final frontier
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| 17:24 UK time, Friday, 12 February 2010
plays Erik, a Dotcom entrepreneur in the Radio 4 play Say What You Want to Hear. Erik and his partner Mike's big idea is that you get to hear something that you've always wanted to hear being said to you ('Harrison Ford says "I love you"'). You input a text file, it comes back as a sound file. Anyway, you've got six days left to hear it on the iPlayer and you can join in via the Say What You Want to Hear website.
91Èȱ¬ R&D's move out of Kingswood Warren to Centre House, just over the road from Internet blog Towers, continues and has been covered in a few 91Èȱ¬ reports. Ant Miller writes on the R&D blog:
First up is Material World, hosted by our good friend and presenter of several of our own videos, Quentin Cooper.Ìý Their show today includes a report recorded at Kingswood Warren and will be available from 4:30 this afternoon on the radio (naturally enough) and on iPlayer.
Also onsite that day was Zoe Kleinman of 91Èȱ¬ News Online with a camera team.Ìý The is available online now.Ìý Zoe has done a great write up of her interviews with Andy Bower, head of Operations, and Graham Thomas, who leads the Production research section.
In advance of part three of Virtual Revolution on 91Èȱ¬ Two Saturday night you can still catch up on episode two on iPlayer until tomorrow night. On the Virtual Revolution blog there are links to the extended interviews which were edited for the broadcast programme.
On a personal level this week's Internet blog favourites are the new Solar System website which boldly states:
"Explore the Solar System with clips from 91Èȱ¬ programmes"and the 91Èȱ¬ Archive collection Space: Flying Visits which has chosen
"A roller-coaster ride through the galaxy"as its tagline. Enjoy.
Paul Murphy is the Editor of the Internet blog.
Comment number 1.
At 13th Feb 2010, Gerald Sindell wrote:For at least a week now the live feed from 91Èȱ¬ 3 Radio has been unlistenableÌý—Ìýa kind of digital chop on everything. By contrast, all the listen again links I've tried are still just fine. I have tried to listen to the live feed on two different computers, a MacBook and a Mac Pro. Our connection speed is 14,400 kbps presently. What's up?
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At 13th Feb 2010, paul_geaton wrote:Gerald is absolutely right. I just checked out Radio 3 (Hear and Now, Sat, 22:30 - 00:00 Tom Service interviews composer George Benjamin and introduces a concert of his music) on iPlayer. Something is very amiss. Gerald if this has been going on for a week without rectification then someone needs sacking. I can't believe noone else has complained!
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At 14th Feb 2010, Paul Murphy wrote:#1 and #2 Gerald Sindell and paul_geaton:
I'll see if I can get you an answer.
best wishes
Paul
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At 14th Feb 2010, paul_geaton wrote:Paul, thanks was listening here: /iplayer/console/radio3/. Just tried both normal and low res versions again, sound is still awful on both (Sun 20:40). Good luck getting it fixed but, on second thoughts, don't give anyone the sack, a rebrief will do!
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At 15th Feb 2010, Paul Murphy wrote:#1 and #2 Gerald Sindell and paul_geaton:
There were reported issues on listen again last week for overseas listeners but from what you've both said I'm assuming that you're listening live. Are you in the UK? I've just tried on the link Paul sent and it sounds fine - are you still having problems?
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At 15th Feb 2010, paul_geaton wrote:Yes listening live, all other iPlayer stations I've tried today e.g. R2 and R4 working fine. Overseas at the moment but that shouldn't make a difference should it? R3 sounds like a dalek, every time I tune-in!
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At 20th Feb 2010, Gerald Sindell wrote:Just got wind of this discussion. Tried my normal iPlayer and things are back to normal. Delighted I could save the 91Èȱ¬. Now on to whirled peas.
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