The official Paul Hartnoll (Orbital) Soundcloud. New album "8:58" out now. http://smarturl.it/8-58

Lord Ashcroft's polling team travel the US to find out how voters feel about the president the parties, the issues, and the midterm elections. Listen to voters in their own words, and Lord Ashcroft's interviews with key figures on the American political scene.

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Make sure you are never out of the loop with the best programme on a Wednesday night. 

Jade English was on The Apprentice last year. This makes her qualified to sift through all the behind-the-scenes gossip! Qualified to tell you what’s really going on. And qualified to chat to CEOs and Execs who know a thing or two about real business.

This podcast is for you if you love The Apprentice, if you love to hate The Apprentice, or if you hate how much you actually love The Apprentice.

Segun Akinola is a composer for film and television who has strengthened many projects with his musical acumen. He is most known for his music in the latest series of 'Doctor Who', starring the first female Doctor, Jodie Whittaker. Segun’s work is a key immersive tool for showrunner Chris Chibnall and series directors to establish the many adventures the Doctor and her friends travel on. These include the impressive 80s influenced electronic score for 'The Tsuranga Conundrum' to the heart-wrenching 'Demons of the Punjab' which utilised specialist Indian musicians and orchestra, all recorded at Abbey Road Studios. 

Most recently, Segun completed scoring Sundance 2019 selection 'The Last Tree' and again recorded his score at Abbey Road Studios. This is Segun’s second feature film collaboration with director Shola Amoo after festival favourite 'A Moving Image', and will compete in the World Fiction strand.

A BAFTA Breakthrough Brit, Segun’s other work includes scoring BBC Two’s landmark four-part series 'Black and British: A Forgotten History', written and presented by Historian David Olusoga OBE. Regularly collaborating on BBC projects, he completed the scores for the major three-part series 'The Human Body: Secrets of Your Life Revealed' and two-part series 'Expedition Volcano', both for BBC Two and PBS.

His score for Shola Amoo's short 'Dear Mr Shakespeare' received an Honourable Mention at the Jerry Goldsmith Awards. In addition, he's written music for a project from Academy Award-winning American producers Shine Global: the 3D documentary '1 Way Up'. His work has screened at acclaimed festivals like Sundance, the London Film Festival, LA Film Festival, BlackStar Film Festival and many others.

After initially learning the piano and drums at a young age, he later turned his attention to composition, graduating from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with first-class honours and the National Film and Television School with an MA in Composing for Film and Television.

It’s been 25 years since my brother Richard disappeared without a trace yet I still hold out hope that someone out there may have information that can help us to understand the circumstances surrounding his disappearance. 

Who was the receptionist on duty on the 1st February 1995? 

How can we be sure that it was 7am that he checked out of the hotel when it was not documented by the police? 

What time did Vivian leave the hotel and why did Richard drive to his Cardiff flat to leave behind his passport and toll booth ticket? 

These, along with many, many questions remain unanswered. I make a plea to you that If you have any information that can help us then please contact us via this page, either with a comment or a private message. Thank you for remembering Richard. X

Rachel Edwards - March 2020 


My love of Manic Street Preachers began in the mid 90s after Design For Life had been released. I didn’t know much about them before then. I was 13 years old and starting to get heavily into music. I’d assumed they’d always been a 3 piece band. I’d assumed they were early on in their career but an older friend passed me 3 CD albums to listen to. These were Generation Terrorists, Gold Against The Soul and The Holy Bible.

I’d enjoyed Everything Must Go but these other albums were different. I loved them instantly. There was also another guitarist in the pictures. A fourth member. This was my first exposure to Richey Edwards. In those days I’d devour any and all information on the bands I was listening to. I’d read the inner sleeves from cover to cover, lyrics included. I still do whenever I buy a new album. Those lyrics were astonishing. I was hooked. I still am.

Richey hadn’t been missing long by 1996. I, like most music fans at that time, was both intrigued and concerned at his vanishing. People couldn’t just disappear, could they? I read all the music papers but nobody knew anything. 25 years on they still don’t.

In the quarter of a century that’s since passed, much has changed and happened. I’m a musician myself. For the last 5 years I’ve played in one of my favourite bands, Ocean Colour Scene. More recently I’ve been playing with Gerry Cinnamon which has been a joy. Part of being a working musician is downtime. There’s a lot of it. I’ve always harboured dreams of making documentaries about subjects and people that I’m passionate about. My first foray into that world came in 2016 when I made my Holocaust documentary, The Railway People. This really whet my appetite to do more.

I approached Rachel in 2017 and asked her if I could make a radio documentary about her brother. We spoke a few times and I submitted my pitch which just wasn’t right at the time. It was declined but very amicably and we remained in sporadic touch until last year when we finally met at an OCS gig in Wales. I’d reworked the idea and Rachel had her own thoughts of what it should be and together we made tentative plans to record it sometime in 2020, 25 years on since she last saw her brother.

On January 9th in Glasgow, we sat down and recorded an extensive interview which tells the story like never before.

I'm grateful to Rachel for trusting me with her story.

Ray Meade - March 2020

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