Tag Archives: Students
January 17, 2012 A play without words and some thoughts on attractiveness
Yesterday we were loaned expensive recording devices and instructed to tell a story without words. This involved questionable bathroom conduct and some multitrack fun with Adobe Audition. And today I was asking people around campus what they found attractive in members of the same sex.
Tags: Britain, Journalism, Multimedia, Nudity, Students, Vox Pop
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December 1, 2011 Our Rock is an Alcoholic and We are Happy-Hour. Part Three
Question Time. BBC One, 10.35 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 Against a more newsworthy day’s backdrop of the biggest strikes in 30 years and my own Senior Lecturer – a former journalist at the News of the World – being arrested in connection with the Leveson phonehacking enquiry (later bailed until March), I have a deadline. I [...]
Tags: Alcohol, Britain, Denmark, End-times, Journalism, Leveson, Middlesbrough, Phone hacking, Politics, Press, Robots, Students, TV
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November 28, 2011 Video Killed the Radio Star
I’ve decided to put my stratospheric rise to the peak of radio broadcasting on hold for the time being. Perhaps I’ll go back to it once the NCTJ exams are out of the way or perhaps it’s not the right medium for me. There was the feeling that I was just one slip of the [...]
Tags: Alcohol, Dinosaurs, Middlesbrough, Radio, Students
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November 24, 2011 God is in the Radio
My Mother once said to me, “You can go to Australia on your own but you can’t go down the corner shop.” I find that succinct in a way no GP, shrink or bar-room confidant as yet has managed. I can’t seem to get out of this slump but the show goes on around me [...]
Tags: Alcohol, Australia, Dinosaurs, Drugs, End-times, Middlesbrough, Radio, Students
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November 21, 2011 Our Rock is an Alcoholic and We are Happy-Hour. Part Two
“In 2010 the world emitted 30.6 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide. If you want to know how big 30.6 gigatonnes is, look at your children and imagine them dying from skin cancer and lack of water, and then stop asking stupid questions and just do your fucking recycling.” – Frankie Boyle, Work! Consume! Die! I’ve spent [...]
Tags: Denmark, End-times, Journalism, Middlesbrough, Radio, Scotland, Students
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November 16, 2011 Experiment No.1 – Blood
An experiment was carried out to illustrate the effects of blood loss on the efficacy of prescription opioids and Tennessee sour mash whiskey. I’ve been terrified of needles since as far back as I can remember – one of my earliest memories is being wheeled screaming down a dimly lit corridor into theatre to have my adenoids pulled out by [...]
Tags: Alcohol, Drugs, Journalism, Students
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November 6, 2011 Our Rock is an Alcoholic and We are Happy-Hour. Part One
My shower is an idiot. There are two in the house but they are identical and I choose the one with ventilation because I value being able to both breath and see when I am in a confined space. On the road I’ve gone weeks without a proper wash; I’ve also nearly drowned a couple [...]
Tags: End-times, Middlesbrough, Students
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November 1, 2011 A Brain Full of Slime
There was no me on the radio today. For anyone tearing their hair out in desperate grief here is a picture of me feeding dinosaurs at the weekend: Unfortunately I’ve been sick these last few days with what at first I took to be a deadly new contagion that would torment my organs into a viscous [...]
Tags: Dinosaurs, Middlesbrough, Radio, Students
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October 27, 2011 Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
Tuesday just gone was my second assault on the airwaves. It went well. Things are getting more and more hands-on and my nervous jabbering is beginning to be mistaken for a growing competence that would lend itself to its own show. The persons in charge want to push out new programming and they also want [...]
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January 26, 2012 International Students at Teesside University
Middlesbrough’s Teesside University has a student body of nearly 30,000. Of that number, more than 1,500 are international students. The ones we tend to notice are female but there is hushed talk of males. Sam Howitt and I wondered what on earth possesed them to study here, of all places, but realised quickly that such [...]
Tags: Britain, Journalism, Middlesbrough, Students, Video, Vox Pop