What is the best British radio to listen to if I want to hear programs about culture, art...?

Answer 1

You can't go wrong with bbc radio 4. www.bbc.co.uk/radio4

92-95 fm

Answer 2

Boing Boing is the best British radio to listen to if You want to hear programs about culture, art.etc.

Germ of a game from a master designer
Brent sez, "Raph Koster (game designer of such great titles like Ultima Online and Star Wars: Galaxies) shares on his blog the vestiges of a game idea. The game involves flapping around the screen with a bird learning to fly." Raph also wrote the magnificent Theory of Fun, which does for games what Understanding Comics did for comics.
What I ended up with, though, felt a little different than I had envisioned. When you held one wing, you slid sideways after releasing the wing, not while pushing. Basically, it felt as I was messing with it, like you were flying into a headwind. And that changed my conception of the game mechanic a little bit.
On the other hand, my kids immediately shouted "birdie!" and spent a cheerful 45 minutes just flapping and learning the controls. As I messed with it, it felt like a different and fresh control dynamic. Still somewhat clunky, but good enough to start with.

Advice for science fiction/fantasy cover artists
Irene Gallo, the spectacular art director for Tor Books (she's delivered three knockout covers for my three novels) has a blog, and she's inaugurated it with a long post of great advice for prospective cover-artists:
SHOW THE CLIENT WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE
Know who you are showing your work to. Don't show your still-lifes and say, "But what I REALLY want to do is fantasy book covers." If that's what you really want to do, then sit down and create a new portfolio. And don't offer to do a job on spec to prove that you can switch gears.
Create different portfolios for different clients. The presentation you show a card gaming company may be subtlety different than the presentation you show a book publisher.

CONSISTENCY
The "Weakest Link" principle reigns supreme. Especially when looking at portfolios from young artists just out of school a couple of years. I need to know that you are in complete command of your craft. If you have seven paintings that you really like and three that you're not fond of, sit down and paint three more pictures. An AD will always fear that they could get you on a bad day. ADs don't want to take a chance on new talent, they want to feel comfortable and excited about working with new talent.

Embarrassing questions for the entertainment industry
EFF has put together a list of "Frequently Awkward Questions" for the entertainment industry, "tough questions for times when you hear entertainment industry representatives speaking and want to challenge their positions."
# The RIAA has sued more than 20,000 music fans for file sharing, yet file sharing continues to rapidly increase both online and offline. When will you stop suing music fans?
# The RIAA has sued over 20,000 music fans for file sharing, who have on average paid a $3,750 settlement. That's over $75,000,000. Has any money collected from your lawsuits gone to pay actual artists? Where's all that money going?

# The RIAA has sued over 20,000 music fans for file sharing. Recently, an RIAA representative reportedly suggested that "students drop out of college or go to community college in order to be able to afford [P2P lawsuit] settlements." Do you stand by this advice? Is this really good advice for our children's futures?

# The RIAA said that it only went after individual file sharers because you couldn't go after P2P system creators. After the Supreme Court's Grokster decision, shouldn't you stop going after music fans?

Answer 3

radio 4.. has good comedy too, "i`m sorry i havent a clue " , "just a minute", "the NOW show", " League of gentlemen" , "Dead Ringers" and many many more