At AlnmouthTHURSDAY 20 DECEMBER 2007
PANTOMIME DAMES
Can anyone update me on this story? Berwick Kaler, the star of Sinbad the Sailor (this year's pantomime at York's Theatre Royal) invited as many people as possible - including women and children - to turn up in full panto dame costume last Saturday at York Minster. It was a serious - well, OK, not that serious - attempt at setting a world record. I mentioned the story during this morning's Nightshift but I still don't know the outcome. Do you?
PITMATIC
Thanks to everyone who contacted me in response to David's emergency email. He wanted details of the book about the local pitmen's dialect he'd heard mentioned on BBC Radio Newcastle. If you're interested in it too - and who wouldn't be? - Nicola Nicholls (the Press Officer at the University of Northumbria) has been in touch to say it's called Pitmatic: The Talk of the North-East Coalfields, by Bill Griffiths. It's available at the usual bookshops locally, from amazon.co.uk or direct from Northumbria University Press (www.northumbria.ac.uk/northumbriapress) on (0191) 227 3382.
A MULTIMEDIA BLOG
I'm glad you're enjoying the images I'm topping the blog with. Please don't forget that you can submit a picture yourself. Make sure it's as small as possible - as little as 50k is OK - and email it to me as an attachment. If it's 'seasonal' or wintry then so much the better.
I guess it's fairly obvious that I'm learning the art of blogging as I go along. Over the Christmas period I'm going to investigate the possibilities of, firstly, adding video to it (like you can on YouTube and similar networking sites). I'm not sure exactly what kind of video I would add, although I'm sure you would have suggestions!
It's also possible to add audio to a blog. If I can find out how do do THAT, then perhaps I can add a daily item not heard on the Nightshift itself. Would that be counterproductive?
CHRISTMAS
Well I think I’ve just about prepared the programmes I’ll be presenting over Christmas - I think! This is one of your last chances to make any requests you might have for special tracks you want to hear or greetings you want me to broadcast - either on The Nightshift or on my special Christmas Day programme from 1000 to 1400. Remember that through the Christmas and New Year season, Nightshifts will be broadcast normally as they are now - if the way they are now can be described as ‘normal’ - except that the Christmas morning and New Year’s morning programmes will be music-only (so that I can have some time off!)
CONTACT ME
Post comments on this blog or contact me in any one (or more) of these ways....
ian.robinson@bbc.co.uk
text 07786 200954 (while the programme is on-air)
call (between about 0545 and 0630 Monday to Friday) 0191 232 6565
Ian Robinson, The Nightshift, BBC Radio Newcastle, Spital Tongues, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE99 1RN
NOTE
Please bear in mind that the views expressed in this blog are my own and NOT the views of the BBC.
PANTOMIME DAMES
Can anyone update me on this story? Berwick Kaler, the star of Sinbad the Sailor (this year's pantomime at York's Theatre Royal) invited as many people as possible - including women and children - to turn up in full panto dame costume last Saturday at York Minster. It was a serious - well, OK, not that serious - attempt at setting a world record. I mentioned the story during this morning's Nightshift but I still don't know the outcome. Do you?
PITMATIC
Thanks to everyone who contacted me in response to David's emergency email. He wanted details of the book about the local pitmen's dialect he'd heard mentioned on BBC Radio Newcastle. If you're interested in it too - and who wouldn't be? - Nicola Nicholls (the Press Officer at the University of Northumbria) has been in touch to say it's called Pitmatic: The Talk of the North-East Coalfields, by Bill Griffiths. It's available at the usual bookshops locally, from amazon.co.uk or direct from Northumbria University Press (www.northumbria.ac.uk/northumbriapress) on (0191) 227 3382.
A MULTIMEDIA BLOG
I'm glad you're enjoying the images I'm topping the blog with. Please don't forget that you can submit a picture yourself. Make sure it's as small as possible - as little as 50k is OK - and email it to me as an attachment. If it's 'seasonal' or wintry then so much the better.
I guess it's fairly obvious that I'm learning the art of blogging as I go along. Over the Christmas period I'm going to investigate the possibilities of, firstly, adding video to it (like you can on YouTube and similar networking sites). I'm not sure exactly what kind of video I would add, although I'm sure you would have suggestions!
It's also possible to add audio to a blog. If I can find out how do do THAT, then perhaps I can add a daily item not heard on the Nightshift itself. Would that be counterproductive?
CHRISTMAS
Well I think I’ve just about prepared the programmes I’ll be presenting over Christmas - I think! This is one of your last chances to make any requests you might have for special tracks you want to hear or greetings you want me to broadcast - either on The Nightshift or on my special Christmas Day programme from 1000 to 1400. Remember that through the Christmas and New Year season, Nightshifts will be broadcast normally as they are now - if the way they are now can be described as ‘normal’ - except that the Christmas morning and New Year’s morning programmes will be music-only (so that I can have some time off!)
CONTACT ME
Post comments on this blog or contact me in any one (or more) of these ways....
ian.robinson@bbc.co.uk
text 07786 200954 (while the programme is on-air)
call (between about 0545 and 0630 Monday to Friday) 0191 232 6565
Ian Robinson, The Nightshift, BBC Radio Newcastle, Spital Tongues, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE99 1RN
NOTE
Please bear in mind that the views expressed in this blog are my own and NOT the views of the BBC.
9 comments:
The event saw 32 people turn up dressed as dames along with one 'dog dame' (a dog in a wig)
At the moment there is no category for pantomime records but one is being set up to enable the event to be recorded.
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