Blog posts tagged "Music"

February 3, 2010 7:19 am 6 Comments

Despite my best efforts, the eleven minute dash on my bike from the studio after last night’s Channel 4 News to London’s Royal Festival Hall, only graced me with the echoes of the last chords of Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Concerto. To have missed Daniel Barenboim’s exuberant performance so closely, felt like an act of sacrilege.

September 24, 2009 11:05 am No Comments

Block yer ears. Shut yer eyes. Krishnan and I and our able friend Mara Carlyle, are in preparation for tonight’s Newsroom’s Got Talent competition (no danger of any of us winning – we’re just ensuring that we can actually appear at all at Vinopolis in the Borough Market). It’s a contest between the BBC, Sky, [...]

May 29, 2009 10:07 am No Comments

The item on the rarest Dinky toy in the world on last night’s Channel 4 News gave me a pang of nostalgia as I glimpsed my beloved Dinky car transporter (not the actual one, but the model) on the right of screen in Nick Glass’s report. When I was seven years old my mum and [...]

February 4, 2009 3:20 pm No Comments

I don’t often get to sing on Channel 4 News. But last night, stirred by the appearance of Alvin Stardust on the 50th anniversary of Buddy Holly’s death, I found myself doing just that. Mr Stardust had a guitar which dated from his own encounter with the bespectacled rock legend. And the rest is replay.