Innovative Thinking from Jonathon Porritt

Innovative thinking from Jonathon Porritt on spaceforideas.uk.com…
audiobook extract read by Piers Gibbon

EDIT: Now it looks like their website has disappeared so the audio doesn’t work

Innovative thinking from Richard Wiseman

Innovative thinking from Richard Wiseman on spaceforideas.uk.com

…audiobook extract read by Piers Gibbon

EDIT: Now it looks like their website has disappeared so the audio doesn’t work

Harping on a record

I got a call from the legendary record producer Trevor Horn – so of course I dropped everything, went to his studios and recorded some Jew’s Harp for a single called Sun Goes Down by David Jordan. Buy the album!

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Yoko Ono has never eaten dogmeat

As a presenter and voiceover I have broadcast some odd things over the years.

RESONANCE FM – APOLOGY TO YOKO ONO

I’d like to interrupt our normal broadcast to read out a formal apology to Yoko Ono for an appalling and offensive story that we broadcast last week about her. We’ll be broadcasting this apology
throughout the day.

On 29 May 2007 at 9pm performance artist Mark McGowan appeared on the “Make Your Own Damn Music” show. For reasons best known to himself, Mark brought what he claimed was a cooked Corgi dog into the studio and ate some of it on air. Mark claimed that Yoko Ono was in the studio with him and that Yoko also tasted some of the dog meat. When the press contacted us, we subsequently confirmed that the story about Yoko was true.

I’m embarrassed to announce that the story was completely untrue. Yoko was not in the studio, and in fact was not even in London, as she was in Russia, attending the opening of her show in the Moscow Biennale. She doesn’t know Mark, didn’t eat any dog meat, and has never eaten any dog meat. What we broadcast was a gratuitous, offensive lie. On behalf of Resonance FM I want to say that we are very sincerely sorry for the offence and distress that we’ve caused to Yoko. She is a
renowned supporter of the arts and music and we owed her better than to lie about her in this way.

Voiceover for Chocolate for help with Presenting

Jessica Lopez is a talented young radio student at Birmingham University – she has done great work on the series I presented – The Knives Are Out.

In return I have just done some voiceover for her in my Voiceover recording studio. She emailed a couple of commercials scripts – and then downloaded a couple of versions of the audio from my client download page.

I think they are pretty good so I’m putting them up here so she can tell us what mark she got from her tutors.

Voiceover: Sakhalin

Sakhalin is in the news again this morning on Radio Four’s Today programme

You can watch the documentary on Sakhalin and oil extraction that I narrated for Sarah Tierney of Clarity Productions

Comment on New website by Chris Brady

Piers – just watched the ayahuasca film WOW!! I’ve taken this too. FOUL taste – but the visions, fractals, cartoons, etc. were amazing. One thing what was that ‘thing’ that the shaman coughed out and gave to you at the end before you became apprenticed to him for 30days or whatever? CJB.

PowerPoint Kills

I love to hate PowerPoint…when I teach Public Speaking and host conferences people often discuss how many wordy slides to include in a forty five minute speech.

The answer of course is “none – and why are you speaking for that long?””

and now the excellent Edward Tufte has argued persuasively that reliance on PowerPoint was a factor in the Space Shuttle disaster

Shuttle Disaster

thanks to dotpolka for the photo