The Brownie of Cara: A Strange Tale from the West Coast of Scotland
‘The Brownie of Cara’ is an audio story I made for Halloween 2024, based on something that happened to my…
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A Unified Field Theory of Story
Absorbed reading, whether of romance novellettes or literary classics is essentially a right-hemisphere dominated, trance inducing experience, in which we…
Halloween Listening Party is Back!
I almost didn’t write this post — but a student in my podcasting class asked if I was going to…
Radio’s not f*cked! 📻🥂🎶
I’m a freshly-minted ‘teacher of media’. I’ve got an internet radio station. I’ve also got a large chip on my…
The Wonderful Library of P. P. McGuiness
“What did I say to writers and film-makers when they asked me for advice? I told them about the “theory…
Where to Find the Good Stuff?
This post is partly inspired by a recent Subway Take that I watched where the guest said that his take…
Jump for your love!
Many of the posts I write start as mental earworms – either a piece of music, or an idea, or…
The Year of AI: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly
In 2015, I had a subscription with Reader’s Digest that my mum had got me for a birthday present, and…
The Music of Roland Sebastian Faber
I recently came across this audio work I made back in 2010. It is was one of the first things…
Expressing Yourself as You Get Older
How do you express yourself as you get older? When you are in your forties, you are beginning to look…