David Lloyd

Today, we learn of a drop in BBC local radio weekly audiences of over a third of a million listeners - and compared to this time last...

The objective for the current BBC local plan is understandable. However much we love radio and can wax lyrically about its beautiful...

We pay for the BBC. We pay for it to produce the very best, distinctive programming under its Charter. Who makes sure it does? The BBC...

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...

On the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning, Jason Horton, Director of Production at BBC Local, had the difficult job of defending...

I can understand how DG Davie got to this place with local radio. An expensive local radio network is costing a huge amount per listener...

It was the Yule log and flip-flops that did it. In Paul O’Grady’s Christmas Day show, repeated today on Boom Radio in a novel Easter...

BBC local radio will still be required to broadcast an all-speech breakfast show, despite its wish to get some Dua Lipa between the...

I used to dream about standing on stage at the Radio 1 Roadshow, the crowds clambering on each other’s shoulders just to witness me...

It’s no fun having the rug pulled from under you. My sympathies are with those at risk from the proposed BBC local radio changes....

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...

If you thought grabbing some sleep on Christmas Eve as a kid was a challenge, try it the night before the publication of Rajar audience...

The latest Ofcom data is out – helping us better understand a fast-changing media picture. And - unlike the Ofcom website or the new...

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...

The last mile of my run was ruined yesterday by an annoying ad. It began by telling me that thirty seconds was not long enough to...