Radio 4 to celebrate Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday with series of special programmes
Bob Dylan (Gareth Fuller/PA)
BBC Radio 4 is to mark Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday with a series of special programmes.
The US singer celebrates the landmark birthday on May 24.
On May 17 the radio station will broadcast the first episode of five-part series It Ain’t Me You’re Looking For: Bob Dylan At 80, which will see Professor Sean Latham explore an archive of the musician’s work.
Then on May 22 Dinner With Dylan will focus on the “passionately dedicated world of Dylan fans, or as they dub themselves ‘Bobcats’”, according to a statement from the BBC.
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Could we trace a direct line from Rush Limbaugh, America’s most popular talk radio host until his death in February, to Donald Trump, the world’s least qualified leader since Kaiser Wilhelm II and America’s most destructive president?
We could start this circuitous but plausible journey in 1988, when Limbaugh’s flagship talk show for WABC in New York made its debut, and end in 2020 with Trump’s final State of the Union address, in which he awarded Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the day after the right-wing shock jock revealed that he had lung cancer. Along the way there have been many imitators, including Mike Pence who before being Trump’s vice president hosted a radio show that he dubbed “Rush Limbaugh on decaf” for WRC
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For the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the question was insensitive. To others, it was offensive, moronic and grotesque. As both a Jewish woman and someone who has worked at the BBC on and off for decades I am both disappointed and defensive – because I know the BBC is better than this.
BBC to close Director of Radio and Music role
James Purnell, former Director of Radio and Music, will not be replaced at the BBC cutting out a layer of management from the organisation.
In an email to staff this morning seen by RadioToday, Chief Content Officer for Content, Charlotte Moore, says the post will be closed and she is instead looking forward to working directly with the Controllers of each network/service.
The roles of the Radio Controllers remain unchanged and they will continue to work with their teams as currently, with BBC Radio & Music remaining a part of the wider BBC Content division as it is now, alongside the other parts.