I am helping the BBC to find English-language radio stations for a radio programme they do called A World In Your Ear. They describe it as “a showcase for the best English language radio on the planet including features, plays, phone-ins, music and comedy shows. A half hour of eavesdropping on the world that reveals a kaleidoscope of voices, sounds and places”.

I am looking particularly for:
1) English language radio stations in Asia and Africa – not all-music or all-news stations but stations with a talk format or which offer drama etc.

2) Radio programmes with a “transport” theme – traffic reports from Greenland, say?

If you know of anything suitable, please contact me directly – or post something in the comments (below). If there is a particular programme on the station which you particularly enjoyed it would help if you could let me know.

Fpr the BBC’s purposes the station doesn’t have to have a website or be streamed over the Internet.

P.S. If you want to catch it , it is broadcast on Fridays 13:30-14:00 (UK time) and Sundays 20:00-20:30 for the next five weeks and streamed from the website live, though for copyright reasons the audiois not archived.203k rehab loanhome ca 0 down loans orovillebudget bush allan sloana loan mirco isamerican savings association loan and stocktonnon-owner loans occupied 100interstate student loans alliedabela loansloan retirement ameriprise accountand helena savings loan american federal

According to a Canadian study reported in New Scientist (by a friend of mine as it happens), it appears smoking marijuana does not have a long-term effect on intelligence. You may find that interesting – what I found particularly noteworthy was the name of the professor, Peter Fried.payment card accepting creditservice credit union 1stcredit air travel cardsabout all creditcredit agancy 37 credit card 11cards 5 credit backadvertisement free report credit Map

It looks as if British Telecom expects the current limitations on the use of wireless networking for commercial purposes to be lifted. It has announced it wants to build a network of base stations across the country.

Unfortunately, it reportedly plans to target business first and consumers won’t be allowed to connect until 2005.

A firm of lawyers in the US is finally providing a test case for an anti-spam law by taking some spammers to court.celebrity naked moviesnaked male stars movienipple moviestommy and movie pamelaguide parent to moviesmovies piss drinkingbig porn movies avi freesex pre teen moviesrape fantasy moviesmovie soundtrack resident evilemployees airlines credit union americanaccredited distance learning programdoctor accredited online programs medicalcredit mile airline cardcredit advantage solutions repaircard credit accept lowest aprteaching degree accredited online schoolhome loans fair 125 credit for Map

A recent study from Stanford discusses how people decide whether the information on a website is credible.

I have a number of problems with the methodology but the results seem to echo a concern I have long had – that it may be harder to spot sites that peddle rubbish on the web than it would be to spot the same organization outside of cyberspace because you don’t get the same amount of information about it. The results seem to indicate that sites that are easy to use, professionally done and that provide contact information may be trusted even if they are by organizations the browser has never heard of. The Farsight Instutute, for example looks like a professional outfit until you notice what they are peddling…

I discussed this issue in New Scientist a five years ago.west 16159 middlesex pa100.3 sex radio talkin pornland alicepromotion 21sextury1sex 1sex aadultsex games adlutsexton uk fiction adam Map

This is a priceless anthology of corporate anthems from IT companies. I have a good friend at IBM and for the record he has never sung “Ever Onward“, their company song. Rather a pity…

…we’re big but bigger we will be,
we can’t fail for all can see,
that to serve humanity
has been our aim…

Well, indeed!

Someone elsewhere was talking about where to find good flash movies and I posted this up then realised you all might want to see it too:

This is bizarre.

These guys inspire and produce lots of interesting Flash stuff.

This is a directory of Japanese Flash movies advertising an ISP that is almost totally incomprehensible but bizarrely fascinating (found through NTK)

And this is monthly reviews mostly of streaming video but contains flash animations as well.

The News Quiz on Radio 4 has always been streamed live but if you missed it you missed it. Now, I discover, you can catch it any time. I found this out when I stumbled across a profile of Jeremy Hardy, the communist comedian (yes it is possible to combine the two!) who is a frequent contributor to the show.

N.B. people not from the UK may find the News Quiz heavy going as it requires a fairly in-depth knowledge of the news as seen from Britain. NPR listeners in the US may find it similar to (but, predictably, ruder and more caustic than) Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me.

If you want a cross-section of American opinion of recent films, Metacritic seems to do a better job than my previous favourite, the Movie Review Query Engine of collecting links to reviews from a variety of newspapers and giving an easy summary.

The Internet Guide movie database offers movie information about a large number of films over a long period and also offers more than just the summary information provided by the reigning champ of movie information sites, the Internet Movie Database. If you are looking for very basic information about an obscure film you might also try cnmovies.com which features the extensive Halliwell’s movie guide database.

Ethical problems galore here. A pair of deaf women in the US are using a deaf sperm donor to increase their chances of producing a deaf baby. Ironically, one of them is a major in medical ethics…

The story is a long one but if you want to know how the new baby turns out and read a bizarre further twist to the story, read the last few paras.