Category Archive for: ‘Radio’

The first of our six-part series broadcasts today on BBC Radio Kent!

Friend of The Bakery Mr Dominic King has sent 2 of our Master Bakers (Richard and Dan) on a mission to track down interesting locals and produce mini documentaries about them. Our adventure starts with a pair of statues lying in the Stour, which we decided to find a bit more about…

The series will go out every Tuesday afternoon, shortly after 4pm on BBC Radio Kent.

If you enjoyed listening to our first feature, then you can find out more by clicking…

www.underwatersculpture.com

Our thanks to Jason

NEXT WEEK: Local author’s fiery debut novel

Hello Bakery Listeners!

PODCAST NEWS

First things first, unfortunately there will be no new editions of The Gulbenkian Theatre Podcast released in the immediate future. We have just completed six solid months of Podcast production, taking in all manner of fantastic celebrities and guests, and we LOVE doing it, but alas we are all just too busy with other projects at the mo, and we decided this was a good point to take a break. The Gulbenkian is still Canterbury’s best theatre (well, the Marlowe is nothing more than a gutted carcass at the moment – Al, take pictures!) but my point still stands. This isn’t planned to be the end of The Bakery’s involvement with the Gulbenkian Theatre however, so watch this space.

BBC RADIO KENT NEWS

We’re currently cooking up a fun little series of audio hotcakes for broadcast on BBC Radio Kent. We’re focussing on quirky Kentish subjects, and the interesting characters that relate to them. As part of this series,  we have planted a book in top Canterbury cafe ‘Coffee and Corks’ and we’re delighted to see that the customers are filling up its pages. If you’re in the area, drop in for a cake and a coffee, and please leave us a message. 

More news about The Bakery’s adventures for the radiogram will be announced in due course!

A book has been placed in Canterbury’s ‘Coffee and Corks’ cafe. All visitors are free to fill it with whatever musings or comments that they wish, as they nibble on a slab of coffee cake or sip at a cup of herbal tea. Philosophy, jokes, inventions, confessions, desire – whatever spills from the nibs!

It’s kind of a mini experiment in communicating ideas, and is planned to form part of a series of features by me and Dan for broadcast on BBC Radio Kent.

So, get yourself along to ‘Coffee and Corks’ and get involved! Else, keep checking back here to be updated on our radio exploits.

Cheers everyone, Richard

When I was a kid I had a toy machine that made play-doh shapes: spaghetti, cylinders, twisty coils, star shaped tubes . . .

But the machine always had a quantity of play-doh stuck inside. To get this out (and therefore form the shapes) you had to push fresh play-doh in the back of the machine, and force the old play-doh out through the cutters. Meaning the new play-doh was now stuck inside. This also meant that if you didn’t play with the toy for a while, the play-doh stuck inside would dry out and make the whole process crumbly and dissatisfying.

It appears that this process also holds true for the world of radio.

For on Wednesday, Dan and I received some exciting news. You may remember our KONKERS feature on BBC Radio Kent last year, since producing which, we have been busily making a monthly podcast for the Gulbenkian Theatre. These audio baked goods appear to have gone down well, because the Ginger and the Brummie have had the carrot of persuasion dangled before our faces with the prospect of producing something similar for BBC Radio Kent. It’s all under-wraps for now, but we shall give you the details when they are more solid.

And on that very same Wednesday, as 2 fresh new pieces of play-doh were pushed up into the underside of the plasticine factory of BBC Radio, someone else was pushed out at the very top. A piece of plasticine whose joyous presence had remained for decades . . . not that he was at all crumbly or dissatisfying!

Yes, it is with sadness I must request a minute’s silence in respect of the late Clement Freud. Just a minute, mind you . . . bad joke, but it had to be made.

The minute waltz has faded away, and we’ll have to turn to BBC7 from now on, for our fix of his wondrous deep sardonic tones.

RIP Mr Freud.

IN OTHER NEWS

Alaric, me and the Archbishop of Canterbury went along to the Shirley Hall to see Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns this week. What a wonderful evening’s entertainment, with live musical accompaniment, some hilarious old films, and fascinating links from Mr Merton himself. The Bakery Boys felt thoroughly inspired by the ingenuity of those early film-makers – back in the days before green screen, after effects, or even – for that matter – sound! Oh, and Rowan had a great time.

Next week we’re going to watch all the American Pie films back-to-back with the Dalai Lama.