You'd never know the OfS was found 'not fit for purpose' by the HoL Industry and Regulators Committee, eh

The utter cruelty of some university management teams is staggering.

This is terrible. I’m so sorry. And I’m so angry.

Camaraderie and Conflict at the Coalface A brief history of ‘the workplace’ on the BBC – to celebrate twenty years of The Apprentice.

I wrote this for the BBC, to mark 20 years of The Apprentice.

An archival journey through the workplace on screen, featuring, among others, Clocking Off, Dinnerladies, Industry, and David Graeber’s ‘bullshit jobs’

Thank you Esther. And thank you for all you do to raise public awareness of this

Dr Rae Duncan explains Long Covid as a vascular disease YouTube video by Sally Bourliakas

Still in some of the press it’s incorrectly portrayed as a ‘mild’ virus but there are over 409 million suffering long covid. It’s a vascular virus with respiratory symptoms. It causes blood vessel damage in children and adults. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydRl...

Yes, this is what Covid did to me: left me with damage to my vascular system, heart damage, and a range of associated conditions which are life-long and, unfortunately, life-threatening.

A genuinely important campaign - seriously!

I mean, anybody who describes Israeli air strikes as "surgical" at this point, after two years of multiple, systemic atrocities, is either delusional or a shameless liar, but the basic point is of course correct.

‘We wanted to put a mark on the world’: the sweaty, singular indie music scene of early-00s Brighton From Bat for Lashes to Brakes and the Pipettes, misfits on the south coast made fearless music amid cheap rents and salty air. Could this ever happen again?

‘The British music industry in the early 2000s was still largely a boys’ club. But Brighton felt different.’

Morning walk, spring sunshine, Lewes

But there was a clear winner…

The annual Lewes Arms Spaniel Race is over. A controversial disqualification in the Grand Finale…

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

Why were TV programmes and films destroyed? - BBC Bitesize There are huge gaps in television archives affecting shows like Doctor Who and Dad's Army, while over 70% of silent era films no longer exist! Find out why.

There are huge amounts of vintage TV programmes, and films from the early days of cinema, which are lost and non-existent. Join BBC Bitesize as we delve into the sad but fascinating history of lost media.

#DoctorWho

UK must feed and fuel itself - but Labour would rather attack wealth The policies of Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves push us to rely on imports.just as war, inflation and global instability demand self-reliance

The UK has relied on food imports since at least Napoleonic times.

Unfortunately, the Brexiters were so busy obsessing over blue passports and the tax cuts they never stopped to work that one out.

Black-and-white photograph of Dorothy Thursby-Pelham examining a scientific illustration of a fish while at work at the Directorate of Fisheries in Lowestoft, 1930s.

North Sea Friday Folk #8 — lives shaped by the shallow sea on our doorstep

Today it's the turn of scientist & illustrator Dorothy Thursby-Pelham (1884–1972), who in the early 20th century made extensive surveys of the plaice population in the southern North Sea

📷At work in Lowestoft, Cefas (OGL 3)

How did I end up here? — Nigella Lawson’s first FT column A defence of food writing (and a recipe for rice pudding) as Nigella returns to her alma mater newspaper

Something good to start the month: writing that will make you want to abandon your plans for the day and spend it cooking. And as a special treat, @nigella.bsky.social’s first column is free to read www.ft.com/content/4819...

Just went for a 57 minute walk on the heath near my house and got around to listening to this. It’s a thoroughly cracking bit of radio.

Eleanor is an alchemist! And such a committed fan of radio

Saturday 2000 UTC.

We can still access BBC Radio 4 in North America.
www.bbc.com/audio/play/l...

Former Google executive Matt Brittin selected to be next BBC director general Former Olympic rower to lead corporation as it hammers out future funding model with government

New BBC Director-General confirmed

Heading into the Mothership

“A delight… something between a documentary jukebox and an audio seance” - pick of the day, @radiotimes.bsky.social

In tonight’s Archive on 4, Eleanor McDowall listens to the spirits of radio’s past and asks how our memory of radio might shape its future.

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BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Into the Ether Unearthing audio treasures from the radiophonic past.

What happens to a medium that disappears into thin air?

Into the Ether features an interview with @davidhendy.bsky.social, archive from 1955-2008 (including the Mark Burman interview in this clip) and original music from Phil Smith

Mixed by @mikemixes.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A pleasure and an honour

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Into the Ether Unearthing audio treasures from the radiophonic past.

A fascinating programme for radiophiles and audiophiles everywhere:

‘Into the Ether’

Archive on 4, BBC Radio 4, Saturday 8pm

Produced by Eleanor McDowall for @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social

Lisa Nandy vows to give BBC permanent charter to prevent political interference Minister says the change is needed to protect the corporation from repeated ‘culture war’ attacks

‘The culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, said she wanted to grant the corporation’s demand for a permanent charter. She said she wanted to protect it from repeated “culture war” attacks’

The USA Suez moment. Military can blow stuff up but it doesn’t guarantee the outcome you want.