It’s a Funny Kind of Life

Richard MelvinComedy, Events, Radio

ollowing on from the success of Feeling Kind Of Funny from earlier in the year, we’re very pleased to announce two new mini series for BBC Radio Scotland, Funny Kind Of Family and Funny Kind Of Love.  Julia Sutherland will introduce and interview a raft of fabulous comedians who are …

Radio goNORTH: Popping up again.

Richard MelvinBlog, Radio, Training

It seems that everywhere you turn these days, there’s chat about digital pop up radio stations. Maybe it’s the BBC’s upcoming Commonwealth Voices project, maybe it’s Radio 2’s Eurovision station or maybe it’s our favourite project, Radio goNORTH. Well, Radio goNORTH is nearly upon us once again and all of us …

The Lach Chronicles on BBC Radio 4

Richard MelvinRadio, Richard's Ramblings

In 2007 I walked in to the Sidewalk Café on the lower East Side of Manhattan to try and find a man called Lach.  I was making a radio show with Dean Friedman for Radio Scotland and one of the episodes was about the Antifolk scene that Lach had invented. …

Get Better or Give Up

Richard MelvinComedy, Richard's Ramblings

t was about three years ago when Julia Sutherland asked if I would introduce her on stage at Grape on George Street in Edinburgh. It was her first Fringe show and she needed a compere. I stupidly thought, how hard can it be? Get up there, talk for five minutes …

Abandoning All Modesty

Richard MelvinFeatures, News, Podcasting, Radio

t’s the post New Year retrospective on the pre New Year sweatbox that was December. 2012 has been filed under“ Work/Templates/MASTERCOPY” for Dabster. We’ve seen pet projects graduate into commissions, we’ve strengthened existing relationships into new markets, delivered programming to be proud of and set up 2013 in a strong position with …