I often get asked why I prepare my radio shows in advance – choosing the music or pre-recording the interviews and writing the outline running order or basic script. The questions often come from people who don’t really understand how radio works.

Fred Hart Online would like to wish you a very merry Christmas. Enjoy the day, and don’t eat too much turkey… there’s got to be enough for tomorrow’s lunch!

Many people still have an FM radio next to their bed which serves as the every day morning alarm. One problem with this is that you can’t necessarily recieve the radio stations you want to recieve.

You may have heard about the incident on 5 Live which happened earlier in the week, when Rage Against the Machine performed on the Breakfast Show, and swore live on air.

I write at the start of the last week of Radio 2‘s Wake Up to Wogan. Sir Terry will be leaving the breakfast show after the programme on Friday morning.

I am writing today after recovering (almost) from last weekend’s radio broadcast.  This time, we were on air for almost 4 days: Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We also got mentioned in our local paper on Tuesday!

The last month of the year has now arrived, along with the website statistics for November.

As I write today, we are only 26 days away from Christmas 2009; in a couple of weeks, radio stations accross the UK will start to play the same list of about 20 tracks – day after day after day. And this is probably the only time of year when the majority of people put [...]