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The United Kingdom will host #Eurovision 2023! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

➡️ Everything you need to know here: eurovision.tv/story/united-k…

It is election season. The world is busy and rubbish.

But it is also Christmas.

So take a breather and let me tell you a story about London, trains, love and loss, and how small acts of kindness matter.

I'm going to tell you about the voice at Embankment Tube station.

Today’s The Times and The Sunday Times reports that BBC planning new spin-off services. (As forecast in my blogs....)

Whenever I hear an ad for Spotify on the radio I wonder - is it a sign of our strength that we’re able to run it? Or our weakness?

FT produce 12 podcasts. Will checknout their Hidden Cities podcasts. Excerpt from one on Berlin: swimming naked in lakes, tangos and more, with Alastair Mackie.
#RDE19

#RDE19 : Flora Carmichael says “Take care before you share. We have a responsibility as broadcasters. Even if you are not in a news stations, make sure to have fact-checking processes in place”

#RDE19 : nickybirch, on smart speaker productions, says “It feels like the role of 'conversation designer' is emerging, and that’s a mixture of an audio producer and a UX designer.”

#RDE19 : Alex Lowe says “Everyone is creative. Creativity is problem solving. It is adding ingredients together to answer a question”

#RDE19 : Jessikka Aro 🦄 says 'We really need to reconnect with the smaller communities, with the groups that believe in things like conspiracy theories, etc. It is elitist to think we don’t have to interact with these people'

Nice to see Nichola Ntim and Greg James with Aled Haydn Jones talking @bbcr1 breakfast at #RDE19

Papped at Radiodays Europe, probably talking about ReelWorld Europe’s Greg James imaging because it’s all I do now #RDE19

The UK boss of @BauerMedia calls on the radio industry to collaborate as he says there's 'never been a better time in commercial radio' on.radio.today/2I2focR #RDE19

I'm at #rde19 for the next couple of days. Coming up at 10am, in Track 4, I'm talking with All In Media about how we deliver our multi-platform content for Fun Kids Radio across the web, apps and smart speakers.

#RDE19 : Bob Shennan says 'I don’t think, necessarily, radio is going as steeply in the direction of television, because of the essential nature of radio and how people consume it”

”The art of telling a story hasn’t changed in thousands of years.. The future of radio is great because we are going to build it together” - @brendapsalinas (News on the assistant, Google, UK) #RDE19

#RDE19 : @CillaBenko says “Who on Earth could think a government cutting a public service broadcaster’s budget by 20% is a good thing?”

#RDE19 We will remember this point in time as an incredibly pioneering one for radio. Dani Bűchi, NRJ Switzerland

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