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New BBC internet radio streams 2025
ByGarfEditor’s note: TL;DR Latest streams can be found here. For reasons best known to itself, the BBC decided to close many of its internet radio streams yesterday (2025-01-21). Fortunately there are alternatives. After a bit of scrambling and hacking, I’ve been able to cobble together an updated list of BBC national and local radio stations,…
Shinkansen to Kyoto Japan
ByGarfToday we went to the beautiful city of Kyoto, on one of Japan’s legendary Nozomi Shinkansen trains. The Nozomi is Japan’s fastest train service and runs on the Tokaido and San’yō Shinkansen lines. The service only stops at the largest stations. Its N700 series rolling stock reaches speeds of 83 metres per second (300 km/h…
Brands Hatch
ByGarfI was invited to another Taran Microsytems race day. Today we were at the legendary Brands Hatch race track in Kent. I was particularly keen to photograph the Taran team Caterham 7’s again.
London Golf Show, Day 1, Excel Centre, London
ByGarfLondon Golf Show, Day 1, Excel Centre, London.
BBC internet radio streams broken again!
ByGarfFor an increasing number of Brits, BBC Radio is about the only thing the modern BBC has to offer that might justify its antiquated and much resented television licence fee. Or rather it was up until yesterday (2025-01-21), when sadly 3/4 of its AAC/HLS internet radio streams inexplicably fell silent. I’ve written to BBC Sounds…
Walking back to Pécs through the snow
ByGarfWalking back to Pécs through the snow. Today, even the rougher prts of town have a strange beauty, now they’re covered with snow.
