Melvyn Bragg leaves In Our Time - Radio 4.

[PrimevalStomp]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewnllp1de8o

No news on who will take over his role. I do hope it will continue; even if I’m only half listening it always feels solid in a world of madness.

I wonder what Reith would have thought of podcasts … I often feel they offer the pretence of informing, purely to fill airtime.

I listened to Gyles Brandreth interview him on his podcast Rosebud and it was a fascinating interview learning all about his early life.

One thing that's really great about podcasts is the ability to sequence and get more specified -- you're not limited to either only a specialist audience (a lot of maths podcasts end up with a limiting set of audience prereqs) or only a generalist introduction. Because it's asynchronous, you can build out little series that get a bit deeper into things.

So for example this Episode 133: Motor Control can say, hey, before you listen to this, go and listen to Episode 132: The Muscular System, and Episode 38: Neurons and Synapses. And depending on your familiarity with the subject, you can go back to a more introductory episode to get more context first, or you can dive right in.

https://www.thescienceofeverything.net/e/episode-133-motor-control/

I'd like to see the BBC think more about the possibilities of asynchrony in their programming.