Dialect - Mass redundancies, the crisis in Bristol & regional journalism

bristol | media and culture | news report Friday April 17, 2009 12:52 by Dialect - Bristol Radio Co-op

plus African Initiatives & the Mafia's friends in high places, including Frank Sinatra

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Times on the MP3 file
01:00 - Introduction
02:00 - Christina Zaba from Bristol National Union of Journalists on the NUJ/Bristol Media 'Opportunities Day'
10:30 - Tony Gosling analysing the present crisis in journalism and recent changes on the Bristol media landscape
21:15 - Guspan - My Oath Of Allegiance to Britain - comic piece from the Open Mic night at Thunderbolt pub in Totterdown
23:30 - Clair Faythorne - African Initiatives activities in Ghana and Tanzania
29:30 - Steam Packet - Strawhead from Aust near the Severn crossing, an old English song
31:30 - Boom time for the coal industry? Sean Jenkins from AJ Barretts Coal merchants in Whitchurch
45:30 - History of Organised Crime by David Southwell - Friends in High places particularly Frank Sinatra
53:30 - Jeff Sparkes - What's On this week
58:45 - credits

Presenter - John Peters-Coleman
Reporters - Anthea Page and Tony Gosling
Studio Production - Vilas Chitrakaran
Producer - Anthea Page

Dialect 18th April 2009 7.73 Mb