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For anyone interested in radio history, and particularly the non-BBC UK variety, perhaps I can recommend a two-part documentary on BBC Radio 2 about Radio Luxembourg? Part one is broadcast on 31 May at 22.00 UK time, and deals mostly with the pre-war era. The second part is on 7 June at the same time, and covers post-war up to the station's final transmissions to the UK.

To download a one hour set of field recordings and sound compositions which I recently programmed for Framework Radio please visit http://www.frameworkradio.net/ There are interesting works by Simon Whetham, Hildergard Westerkamp, James Wyness, Craig Vear, Philip Reeder, and Michael Trommer.

Some news from the University of Southern Denmark:

A Ph.D. scholarship is available at the University of Southern Denmark within a study program on the biosonar of toothed whales. Studies on hearing and biosonar performance is made both in captivity and in the field within this researcg program. The succesful applicant must start before end of September, 2012. Deadline for applying is 30th of May, 2012, at noon Danish time.

More information about the research program is…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h666r

This is the story of how Seamus Ennis, Alan Lomax et al collected Irish traditional material, some of which became the eponymous LP.