Friday, October 9, 2009

The intriguing listening habits of World Service fans

The intriguing listening habits of World Service fans

Post categories: On the show, Your views

Penny Vine | 12:20 UK time, Friday, 9 October 2009

After the appearance of Anne Koch, Deputy Director of the World Service in English on last week's programme and Rajan's appeal to tell us more about your listening habits - we were inundated with responses.

As there were far too many to include in this week's edition, I thought I'd use this post to summarise what you said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/overtoyou/2009/10/the_intriguing_listening_habit_1.html

Hat tip to Alokesh Gupta who posted this to the DXLD Yahoo group

CBC Radio One - Ideas Oct 12 2009

Looking Up On Ideas

400 years ago, a novel optical device from Holland made its way to Italy. There, it got into the hands of a free-thinking mathematician named Galileo Galilei. He soon aimed the instrument skyward – and our universe changed forever.


Since that time, astronomers have been building bigger and better telescopes. And their discoveries continue to challenge us.

This week on IDEAS, science journalist Dan Falk tells the remarkable story of Galileo and the revolution he began.

It's a part one of a special celebration of astronomy on IDEAS. Monday, October 12th at 9 p.m. (9:30 NT) on CBC Radio One. Part two airs on Monday, October 19th.

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/