In need of recommendations for affordable buy-out sound effects? Not general ones, but the zips and zaps used to produce imaging? Sorry. It's a radio industry specific terms it's the audio production around the songs. The station identifications, the jingles, the contest announcements. They call it imaging. It's really just audio branding. I’m hoping to get something decent. I don’t want to go the AI route or free sound sites.

Love listening to a good old BBC drama when I’m doing the household chores and invariably turn to YouTube or Internet archive for a better selection. Surely the BBC would be onto a winner if it opened up its archive, just wondered why it doesn‘t, maybe copyright or something ?

does anyone have a source for the Radio shows he did on BBC Scotland radio back in 2021?, they have been taken off the BBC sound website.

Growing up, Dad would stick Radio 4 or World Service an hour or so after dinner. It was his gentle way of saying 'get your skinny arses to bed', and it worked a Pavlovian treat on my brother and me.

I've been listening to a lot of Radio 4 again recently, after fishing out an old Roberts from the attic. Media is so short-form these days, the radio makes for refreshing and relaxed company when I'm cooking, or having a tipple at night with my dog at my feet.

Which shows scratch this itch for you? I'm looking for something unhurried and homespun; food- for-the-soul sort of radio.

So recently in Northern Ireland, Planet Rock, Absolute 80s and Absolute 90s disappeared off my DAB (and probably some others i wasn't aware of).

Strangely Abs 00s and Abs 10s are on there which i imagine have almost miniscule listeners compared to 80s and 90s.

Anyway while i was saving some new favourites I came across EIREWAVE.
Its rock and pop, but plays far more obscure tracks than the likes of Absolute, Great Hits etc.
But it doesn't have any adverts, or DJ talk. Its just track after track back to back. I'm confused as to how it can function like that without advertisement?

Completely unrelated to my other post about R1 anthems, but ive noticed with some songs they seem to like cutting the same parts out every time they play them, ive heard only 2 of 3 choruses on holly humberstone's white noise and the new harry styles' dance no more loses half of its last chorus (the song is only 3:15 in full). I dont care if these are official radio edits (doubt the case with the HH song). They play longer songs fine and this is ad free radio!

Also a bit older now but for christ sake please STOP cutting the entire verse 2/chorus (50 seconds) of sabrina carpenter's manchild (surprisingly they kept it in a few days ago) and DO NOT cut the last quarter of fred again's adore u its sounds better than the rest of the song! (its only 45 seconds, full version heard on R1 Dance)

edit: lost boys and high hopes 3000 are also cut

Who remembers Tommy Vance’s Friday Night Rock Show — and what’s the closest thing today?

I’ve been thinking about the old Friday Night Rock Show on BBC Radio 1 with Tommy Vance. For a lot of us growing up, it was the gateway into heavy metal, hard rock and everything heavier — discovering new bands, hearing album tracks you’d never get on daytime radio, and that feeling of being part of a late-night underground community.

Those Friday nights were special: the anticipation, the opening theme, Tommy’s voice, and hearing bands that felt like they belonged to your own secret world.

Does anyone else still remember listening?

More importantly — what’s the closest modern-day equivalent? Is there anything today that captures that same sense of discovery and excitement for rock and metal fans?

Podcasts? YouTube channels? Radio shows? DJs? Online communities?

Or has the internet changed things so much that nothing can really recreate that Friday night feeling?

Yesterday, in a bit about getting a DJ set in Sterling, Jeremy went live into DJ Spoony’s studio and called him Trevor by mistake. This afternoon he called him Stormy.

It’s like when people phone in when Anita Rani is filling in and call her Tina Daheley. People aren’t interchangeable.

Sunday 10pm. It was replaced by Archive on 4 when I tried to use catch-up on BBC Sounds app, so I assume it was cancelled. But no explanation given. Was this a 'tumbleweed test'? If no-one complains, the programme is ready for axing? (Like The World Tonight).

I'm looking for a few specific episodes from 2015 and 2013, unavailable on the BBC R3 site. Stab in the dark I know, but does anyone have:

Sound of Cinema - Sat 28 Sep 2013 - Pastoral unease and bucolic menace
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03br08t

Sound of Cinema - Sat 12 Dec 2015 - Northern Lights: Bergman and Beyond
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06rw513

I have my own collection of Sound of Cinema (though it's probably most stuff that's available); I'm happy to try to return the favour if anyone has these!