Saltwell Park, GatesheadWEDNESDAY 16 JANUARY
THE NIGHTSHIFT THEME
The BBC is, of course, neither able nor willing to fund a specially-commissioned theme tune for The Nightshift and, as long as this is so, I have been compelled to purloin theme tunes from other sources: radio, tv and even occasionally films. I play a different one each night at the top of the show (as the hateful American phrase has it). In doing so, however, I seem inadvertently to have upset some of you by not telling you what the themes were originally used for. Information is power (as someone once said) and by withholding the identity of the tunes from you I am able to give myself a brief buzz of control-freakery. But I don’t want to upset you - or anyone else, for that matter. So from now on, the identity and origins of each theme will be revealed here on the blog.
For the record, the themes used so far have been the ATV ‘ident’, The Big Country, The Big Match, Bill and Ben (The Flowerpot Men), Pot Black ( - Winifred Atwell playing The Black and White Rag), Blake’s 7, Brokeback Mountain, Brookside, Cagney and Lacey, The Clothes Show and - today - The Colbys. Remember The Colbys? Barabara Stanwyck giving it her mean and nasty all. Bit of a come-down from Double Indemnity, though.
EMAIL
I do almost all of the research and production work for The Nightshift here at home. That’s where I’m writing this blog right now. This means that I tend not to see your emails until I arrive at the Pink Palace, bow to Lord Reith’s lower dentures and settle down in Studio 1A. For most purposes, this seems to work OK but I appreciate that sometimes it may be necessary or desirable for you to email me rather more urgently. So I’ve set up a new email account on my Mac specially for YOU. How thoughtful is THAT! If you wish to contact me after The Nightshift has gone off-air, you can now email me on ianstuartrobinson@googlemail.com.
NEVILLE WHALER
Many of you will have heard Neville’s name mentioned on-air before. Many years ago, he was responsible for some of the Tipsy Duchess’ sauciest double-entendres - a fact which I have never let him forget. More respectably, you may have heard me mention his name in connexion with the voluntary work he does at the Tanfield Railway. This morning I received an email which, I think, it is worth reproducing here.
‘This may seem a strange request but with the internet bringing us all into a smaller world, who knows. I am researching my family heritage - Whalers from the Lincolnshire area. I noticed from your blog (13 Dec 07) that you have a friend named Neville Whaler. Would you mind terribly passing on my email address to him. I believe we may be cousins -- distant, but still cousins. I descend from a George Robert Whaler who is the brother of his great grandfather Charles Whaler. Thank you so much for taking the time.’
Isn’t that awesome? If proof were ever needed that the internet is the most amazing communication tool ever developed, here it is. A woman listens to The Nightshift via the internet in North Carolina, USA. As a result, she reads the Truckshunters blog - on the internet. There, she sees Neville’s name and - again, via the internet - emails me about him. Dinosaurs who think that the internet is all porn and paedophilia don’t understand the awesome power of what they’re missing and its ability to bring people together almost instantaneously all over the world.
I’ll keep you informed of The Whaler Case!
THE NEXT POSTING...
...will be next Monday, 21 January. This is because I'm on leave tomorrow and Friday. Keep in touch!
CONTACT ME
Post comments on this blog or contact me in any one (or more) of these ways....
ian.robinson@bbc.co.uk
ianstuartrobinson@googlemail.com
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.
THE NIGHTSHIFT THEME
The BBC is, of course, neither able nor willing to fund a specially-commissioned theme tune for The Nightshift and, as long as this is so, I have been compelled to purloin theme tunes from other sources: radio, tv and even occasionally films. I play a different one each night at the top of the show (as the hateful American phrase has it). In doing so, however, I seem inadvertently to have upset some of you by not telling you what the themes were originally used for. Information is power (as someone once said) and by withholding the identity of the tunes from you I am able to give myself a brief buzz of control-freakery. But I don’t want to upset you - or anyone else, for that matter. So from now on, the identity and origins of each theme will be revealed here on the blog.
For the record, the themes used so far have been the ATV ‘ident’, The Big Country, The Big Match, Bill and Ben (The Flowerpot Men), Pot Black ( - Winifred Atwell playing The Black and White Rag), Blake’s 7, Brokeback Mountain, Brookside, Cagney and Lacey, The Clothes Show and - today - The Colbys. Remember The Colbys? Barabara Stanwyck giving it her mean and nasty all. Bit of a come-down from Double Indemnity, though.
I do almost all of the research and production work for The Nightshift here at home. That’s where I’m writing this blog right now. This means that I tend not to see your emails until I arrive at the Pink Palace, bow to Lord Reith’s lower dentures and settle down in Studio 1A. For most purposes, this seems to work OK but I appreciate that sometimes it may be necessary or desirable for you to email me rather more urgently. So I’ve set up a new email account on my Mac specially for YOU. How thoughtful is THAT! If you wish to contact me after The Nightshift has gone off-air, you can now email me on ianstuartrobinson@googlemail.com.
NEVILLE WHALER
Many of you will have heard Neville’s name mentioned on-air before. Many years ago, he was responsible for some of the Tipsy Duchess’ sauciest double-entendres - a fact which I have never let him forget. More respectably, you may have heard me mention his name in connexion with the voluntary work he does at the Tanfield Railway. This morning I received an email which, I think, it is worth reproducing here.
‘This may seem a strange request but with the internet bringing us all into a smaller world, who knows. I am researching my family heritage - Whalers from the Lincolnshire area. I noticed from your blog (13 Dec 07) that you have a friend named Neville Whaler. Would you mind terribly passing on my email address to him. I believe we may be cousins -- distant, but still cousins. I descend from a George Robert Whaler who is the brother of his great grandfather Charles Whaler. Thank you so much for taking the time.’
Isn’t that awesome? If proof were ever needed that the internet is the most amazing communication tool ever developed, here it is. A woman listens to The Nightshift via the internet in North Carolina, USA. As a result, she reads the Truckshunters blog - on the internet. There, she sees Neville’s name and - again, via the internet - emails me about him. Dinosaurs who think that the internet is all porn and paedophilia don’t understand the awesome power of what they’re missing and its ability to bring people together almost instantaneously all over the world.
I’ll keep you informed of The Whaler Case!
THE NEXT POSTING...
...will be next Monday, 21 January. This is because I'm on leave tomorrow and Friday. Keep in touch!
CONTACT ME
Post comments on this blog or contact me in any one (or more) of these ways....
ian.robinson@bbc.co.uk
ianstuartrobinson@googlemail.com
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.
10 comments:
Your comments about the internet are so true Ian.Like yourself, I am from a time when you had to ring the operator to book a phone call to Australia. Now the internet allows us to purchase items from around the world, it also enables us to solve mysteries that may have puzzled folks for a long time.
I doubt my life wouldn't be as interesting as it is without the internet, I mean I couldn't do this could I?
It,s 5.13am ians just said "reasons to be cheerfull". well..?
the days are getting longer...
daffs and crocus are showing in the back garden...which means springs on it,s way..
I,ll have to give it some thought...x
ian i too find it amazing how the internet can reach out to people especially across continents, being fairly new to computers i can,t imagine how i managed without it, it is awesome, ive had some of the best days of my life and really happy times spent on this thing we call the "wibbly wobbly web"........made friends that i hoped would be for life,
i do think it,s the way forward for meeting people in the future, sit with your feet up in the warmth communicating,
i had 2 emails in one day just after xmas both coincidentally from long lost cousins, one in hull the other in america,i replied to the cousin in america had email back within half an hour,..no can is lost anymore, the worlds just not big enough...
thank heavens..
correction...
no one can stay lost ..the worlds not big enough.. i still have bother with the keyboard but will get there eventually..more haste less speed..
sunday evening t.s..thankyou for the info about the fish, id be glad if some one can uncover the mystery of it.
ps the fish my nephew caught at sea,... brown like a trout, speckled, brown back, silver underbelly, no cod like marking under chin thats if they have a chin....think thats the best description i can come up with..
Gilly....is this a takeover bid?
ian very soz!! ive been waiting of the new blog, ..i forget things too..so everything gets crushed onto the one post..thought the same thing myself..
Gilly.....some of your responses here (welcome thought they are) seem to me to be more appropriate to either an email to me, or to your own blog!
oky doky ian .. i understand x
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