David Lloyd

There is a risk the BBC is about to funnel funds out of local radio - which it appears not to be managing too well - into areas it’s also...

Today, Rhodri Talfan Davies was called to account by listeners in the Radio 4 Feedback programme. I’m not sure how many local radio...

It’s not the Corporation’s hundredth birthday, of course. The candles come out for that in 2027. This is the centenary of the original...

There’s a beautiful conviction of youth. You know what you want; and are blissfully unaware how challenging it may be to achieve. Such is...

Does no-one teach audio editing these days? Great editing can make audio sound better. The audio becomes more powerful, better ordered,...

How great it would be to know how listeners actually respond minute-by-minute to the careful offering we’ve sweated to create. Not how we...

I summoned the spirit of Peaty, Daley, Learmouth, Shriever and Co as my Parkrun resumed this morning after the Covid hiatus. I suspect I...

With due razzamatazz, Nottingham Castle has re-opened after a £30m refurbishment. Deep in its sandstone basement, there’s a special...

I’m not going to have a go at the BBC Radio London presenters and producers who allowed an egregiously offensive caller to persist...

One of the great things about online stations is you have a really good handle on how many people are listening. That can also be a bad...

'Prime Minister, we’re just gonna move your microphone - you’ve just moved away from it.’ Boris was the 8.00 guest on the launch day of...

Everyone loves local radio. Many of us started our media lives working in it – and know how brilliant the service it provides can be – at...

The BBC is required to publish its annual plan each year. Just as with every broadcaster, however – and every industry – this year’s is...

The great thing about not running a radio station myself now is a) I sleep at night; and b) I can afford the luxury of spending some time...

In times like this, you turn to your friends. And radio is a friend. Day or night, it’s there to pick-you up, to comfort you, to explain,...

It’s eerie listening back to the 1939 announcement of war on the BBC Home Service. After the solemn words from Chamberlain, Alvar Lidell...

"It is submitted in the interest of broadcasting, not of the British Broadcasting Corporation”. Lord Reith, in making a 1925 submission...

If you read some media press, it’s easy to form the view that live radio only has one listener left. Thank goodness for the fine work...

As the dawn of the decade was toasted, Chris Moyles was about to end his record spell on the Radio 1 breakfast show. As self-declared...

As the Netherlands celebrated the official centenary of radio proper, I was invited to fly across to Amsterdam to opine about radio past,...