Pods and Blogs on BBC Radio
I received an email yesterday from Jamillah Knowles, host of the Pods and Blogs show on BBC Radio 5 Live, mere hours after I posted Roland Boula’s story “Podcasting the Blues From Cameroon”. She asked if we might arrange an interview to chat about blogging from Africa, the people who follow my blog, pitfalls relating to my location and so on. Without naming names, I suspect that a certain VSO in Bamenda played a role in making this connection. If my suspicions are correct, let’s just say that the power of Twitter and social networking tools truly are wonderful.
Naturally, I’m excited to chat with Jamillah and air my views on the show. Likewise, I’m hopeful that we can build a broad base of public enthusiasm for Roland’s blues podcast. Stay tuned.
Believe it or not – the power of Twitter is such that it appears to have reached the BBC via two different channels.
I love 5Live and miss it a great deal – though I still download the podcasts when I can (Check out Mark Kermode’s film reviews and also the Daily Mayo Podcast).
I’ll just go and subscribe to pods and blogs now.
5Live is what the World Service should be.
Cool, nice one Bill, tell Roland well done!
Your interviewer tweeted to say how inspiring your chat had been – sounds like it went well.
Ourman, I’m relieved to hear you say so. Hopefully Jamillah can edit down my 20 minutes of rambling into something that makes me sound halfway coherent. At the office with Roland now. He’s visiting Buea for the afternoon.
Hey Bill
Just listened in to your interview. Fantastic what a great opportunity. Looking forward to hearing Roland’s podcasts.
I’ll be checking back later in the week for Roland’s music selection/podcast. Please say “hello” to Roland for me.