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BBC Radio 7 (known until 4 October 2008 as BBC 7) is a British digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and children's programming nationally 24 hours a day. It is the principal broadcasting outlet for the BBC's vast archive of spoken-word entertainment, and was established specifically to enable the contents of the BBC Sound Archives to be broadcast. It is the most listened to BBC digital radio station, with 834,000 listening to it in the second quarter of 2009.
Programmes qualify for broadcast on Radio 7 if they are either three years old or more, or if they have previously been broadcast twice on their original station. However, even if a programme fulfils these criteria, there may be copyright issues preventing it from appearing on BBC Radio 7. However, programmes made exclusively for the station are exempt from this rule.
The schedule spans the decades, from The Goon Show (1950s) and Round the Horne (1960s), through Radio 2 favourites like The News Huddlines, Castle's On The Air and Listen to Les to recent Radio 4 shows such as Little Britain and Dead Ringers.
As a speech network, BBC Radio 7 was unique from the start in carrying no news, with the exception of a daily bulletin aimed at younger listeners presented by the Newsround team at 07:55 on weekdays. Adopting a very informal style of presentation, its continuity announcing team are associated with themed blocks of programming and are promoted as personalities & presenters in their own right. This was taken one step further on 14 February 2005, when an hour long strand of comedy was introduced between 08:00 and 09:00, initially presented by Richard Bacon, now with sister station 5 Live. Current regular presenters are Penny Haslam, Jim Lee, Etholle George, Joanna Pinnock, Alex Riley and Michaela Saunders, with cover presenters Alan Smith and Helen Aitken.
There is speculative fiction of various kinds, science fiction, fantasy or horror seven days a week in a regular slot called The 7th Dimension which is broadcast on Radio 7 twice a day, at 18:00 and midnight. In early 2007, this slot featured a series of original Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor.
Paul Merton launched the station at 20:00 on 15 December 2002 in a simulcast with Radio 4. It was originally codenamed Network Z.
The station's remit requires it to carry children's programming, which, until 2007, came in the form of two daily shows: The Little Toe Radio Show which was aimed at younger children and consisted of short serials, stories and rhymes that ran from 07:00 to 08:00 and was repeated at 15:00 to 16:00. Big names like Roger McGough were regular contributors; and The Big Toe Radio Show which aired from 16:00 to 18:00 and consisted of phone-ins, quizzes as well as stories intended for the 8+ age group. In February 2007 the schedule changed and Big Toe Books took over the 07:00 slot, but dropped the phone-ins and quizzes for children aged 8 and up while Cbeebies Radio replaced The Little Toe Show and now runs in a longer slot from 14:00 to 17:00. These programmes consist almost entirely of original material.
Radio 7 also broadcasts some original programming. Spanking New on Seven is a stand-up comedy programme, and they have broadcast the BBC New Comedy Competition, a competition for new stand up comedians. People who have taken part in BBC comedy competitions have gone on to have their own series on Radio 7, such as John-Luke Roberts with Spats and Miriam Elia with A Series of Psychotic Episodes. The Mitch Benn Music Show features comedy songs introduced by Mitch Benn. Colin and Fergus' Digi Radio is a comedy sketch show which ran for two series in 2005–2006. Serious About Comedy was a weekly show, now decommissioned, presented by Robin Ince where comedians and comedy critics discuss comedy television, radio, DVDs, and films from the last week. Tilt is a satirical sketch show which looks at the week's news of views other than the norm. Knocker is a sitcom about a market researcher, written by and starring Neil Edmond.
The flagship comedy section on Radio 7 is The Comedy Club, hosted by Alex Riley (Monday to Friday) and Penny Haslam (Sunday) . Pitched as "two hours of contemporary comedy", it is broadcast from 22:00 to midnight Sunday to Friday, and repeated between 03:00 and 05:00 the following morning. Comedy that has previously been commercially available as cassettes on the Laughing Stock label is also broadcast.
The network also features output from North America such as the American series Garrison Keillor's Radio Show and The Twilight Zone, and Stuart McLean's Vinyl Cafe from Canada.
BBC 7 won the Sony Radio Academy Award for Station Sound in 2003, was nominated for the Promo Award in 2004, and in 2005 received a Silver for the Short-Form award, plus nominations in the Speech Award and Digital Terrestrial Station Of The Year Award.
The station can be heard worldwide on the Internet, across northern Europe via the Astra 2A satellite (including via Freesat and Sky), and in the UK on DAB digital radio, cable television, IPTV and Freeview digital terrestrial television.
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BBC Radio 7 (known until 4 October 2008 as BBC 7) is a British digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and children's programming nationally 24 hours a day. It is the principal broadcasting outlet for the BBC's vast archive of spoken-word entertainment, and was established specifically to enable the contents of the BBC Sound Archives to be broadcast. It is the most listened to BBC digital radio station, with 834,000 listening to it in the second quarter of 2009.
Programmes qualify for broadcast on Radio 7 if they are either three years old or more, or if they have previously been broadcast twice on their original station. However, even if a programme fulfils these criteria, there may be copyright issues preventing it from appearing on BBC Radio 7. However, programmes made exclusively for the station are exempt from this rule.
The schedule spans the decades, from The Goon Show (1950s) and Round the Horne (1960s), through Radio 2 favourites like The News Huddlines, Castle's On The Air and Listen to Les to recent Radio 4 shows such as Little Britain and Dead Ringers.
As a speech network, BBC Radio 7 was unique from the start in carrying no news, with the exception of a daily bulletin aimed at younger listeners presented by the Newsround team at 07:55 on weekdays. Adopting a very informal style of presentation, its continuity announcing team are associated with themed blocks of programming and are promoted as personalities & presenters in their own right. This was taken one step further on 14 February 2005, when an hour long strand of comedy was introduced between 08:00 and 09:00, initially presented by Richard Bacon, now with sister station 5 Live. Current regular presenters are Penny Haslam, Jim Lee, Etholle George, Joanna Pinnock, Alex Riley and Michaela Saunders, with cover presenters Alan Smith and Helen Aitken.
There is speculative fiction of various kinds, science fiction, fantasy or horror seven days a week in a regular slot called The 7th Dimension which is broadcast on Radio 7 twice a day, at 18:00 and midnight. In early 2007, this slot featured a series of original Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor.
Paul Merton launched the station at 20:00 on 15 December 2002 in a simulcast with Radio 4. It was originally codenamed Network Z.
The station's remit requires it to carry children's programming, which, until 2007, came in the form of two daily shows: The Little Toe Radio Show which was aimed at younger children and consisted of short serials, stories and rhymes that ran from 07:00 to 08:00 and was repeated at 15:00 to 16:00. Big names like Roger McGough were regular contributors; and The Big Toe Radio Show which aired from 16:00 to 18:00 and consisted of phone-ins, quizzes as well as stories intended for the 8+ age group. In February 2007 the schedule changed and Big Toe Books took over the 07:00 slot, but dropped the phone-ins and quizzes for children aged 8 and up while Cbeebies Radio replaced The Little Toe Show and now runs in a longer slot from 14:00 to 17:00. These programmes consist almost entirely of original material.
Radio 7 also broadcasts some original programming. Spanking New on Seven is a stand-up comedy programme, and they have broadcast the BBC New Comedy Competition, a competition for new stand up comedians. People who have taken part in BBC comedy competitions have gone on to have their own series on Radio 7, such as John-Luke Roberts with Spats and Miriam Elia with A Series of Psychotic Episodes. The Mitch Benn Music Show features comedy songs introduced by Mitch Benn. Colin and Fergus' Digi Radio is a comedy sketch show which ran for two series in 2005–2006. Serious About Comedy was a weekly show, now decommissioned, presented by Robin Ince where comedians and comedy critics discuss comedy television, radio, DVDs, and films from the last week. Tilt is a satirical sketch show which looks at the week's news of views other than the norm. Knocker is a sitcom about a market researcher, written by and starring Neil Edmond.
The flagship comedy section on Radio 7 is The Comedy Club, hosted by Alex Riley (Monday to Friday) and Penny Haslam (Sunday) . Pitched as "two hours of contemporary comedy", it is broadcast from 22:00 to midnight Sunday to Friday, and repeated between 03:00 and 05:00 the following morning. Comedy that has previously been commercially available as cassettes on the Laughing Stock label is also broadcast.
The network also features output from North America such as the American series Garrison Keillor's Radio Show and The Twilight Zone, and Stuart McLean's Vinyl Cafe from Canada.
BBC 7 won the Sony Radio Academy Award for Station Sound in 2003, was nominated for the Promo Award in 2004, and in 2005 received a Silver for the Short-Form award, plus nominations in the Speech Award and Digital Terrestrial Station Of The Year Award.
The station can be heard worldwide on the Internet, across northern Europe via the Astra 2A satellite (including via Freesat and Sky), and in the UK on DAB digital radio, cable television, IPTV and Freeview digital terrestrial television.
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musicmakelightning
Linda's experience and professionalism makes her one of the most credible and watchable/listenable journalist in our field. I truly appreciate the energy and the process she uses to guide us through an utterly chaotic sea of deception mixed with truth mixed with mystery.
The one thing I would suggest on this Antarctica topic, though, is to consider some additional facts. Having spent many months there on five separate tours with the USAP/NSF I can say with all certainty that the military presence is absolutely pervasive and unhidden. While they could fly scientists to the ice via commercial aircraft, the National Science Foundation still opts to use the NY Air National Guard (yes - not the Air Force, the New York Guard - at least they did between 2000 and 2007) to fly science and support staff to the ice. And there is absolutely no doubt, or any attempt to hide the secure operations that go on down there. The NSA and other three-letter-acronym security agencies use Antarctica as a communication base. Those personnel mix freely with science staff and support staff while on station at McMurdo, Pole, and elsewhere. And there are secure listening stations placed all over the continent.
Listening to Brian's story, I have to wonder if the purpose of that science team was not collection of ice field data, but rather construction/maintenance of a station some distance from the landing site - so out of sight range of the transportation aircraft - and that their mission was classified and rather than say anything at all about what they were doing, they kept absolute silence.
Having spent quiet a bit of time in Antarctic operations myself - I suggest that's a much more pedestrian but more likely rationale for the behavior Brian saw.
On this particular issue - given my experience with the community and operations in Antarctica that I have - I just don't feel the sense of otherworldly mystery as I do for many other of Earthfiles's investigations. And I live in Northern Arizona, where there's plenty to investigate nearly nightly.
Eddie Ossorio
I also retired from the Military and spent time in Antarctica. It is surrounded by secrecy and everywhere I went I was always asked what I was doing or where was I going and why and who gave the order. I can tell you this guy is telling you the truth. I wish I could say more but we were force not told but forced to sign a disclosure agreement.
Repent Sinner
@JohnWick he's lying, he may have gone to Antarctica but information is so compartmentalized that no one there (who would be posting on YouTube) would have the full picture because that's how compartmentalized information works with security clearances. I had a security clearance when I was an infantryman in early to mid OEF/OIF and you'd be surprised how little info that even gets you, I had access to zero info that did not directly relate to my job. Key word, compartmentalized
Garret Shively
Speak up anyways bro the world depends on it
Jayda Rae
Tell me more Pleaseeeee
Anoo Rr
Non-disclosure or confidentiality agreement signed even by all employees for even routine organisations. Odd they did not want that. So, they did want it disclosed!
Deborah Anne Hart
Simply brilliant! I have listened to this episode at least 3 times, and still I am amazed. Here it is, Feb. 2022, and we are still " fighting the good fight", as Richard Dolan says, to uncover the truth in huge mountain of government secrets and lies!
Sean Stewart
This is my favorite account of the weird shit that goes on in Antarctica. You can tell the dude is giving a genuine account and not adding bullshit to his story. Linda has some of the most entertaining accounts of high strangeness from whistleblowers. Love this channel
Darladawn 222
I really like your style Linda...it's great listening to an interview where the guest isn't constantly being interrupted. And if you do interupt them, it's for clarification, not to ask a new question before they finish answering the last. Much appreciated!!
Jonest Elmond
@Stella Q I am interesting in genuine informations that had been revealed to us! If you know some informations on YouTube that I am not aware of, just share them, that's what been doing. What do think?
Stella Q
@Jonest Elmond Genuine secrets on YouTube 😂 Oh dear 🤦♀️