CENTRAL ENGLAND: Mike Wheeler's concert reviews from Nottingham and Derbyshire feature high profile artists on the UK circuit - often quite early on their tours.
VIDEO PODCAST: Slava Ukraini! - recorded on 24 February 2022, the day Europe woke up to the news that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces had invaded Ukraine. A fifty minute video which also features Caitríona O'Leary and Eric Fraad discussing their new film Island of Saints, and pays tribute to Joseph Horovitz, Malcolm Troup and Maria Nockin.
British recording engineer Robert Walter Ernest Auger was born in London on 30 April 1928. He began his career aged twenty-eight, taking an apprenticeship at Bryanston Street Studios, working as an engineer for Pye and then meeting and working with American recording engineer Bob Fine at Mercury Records.
During a long career, Bob Auger embraced various technical deveopments in their early stages, including stereo and digital recording, and made several thousand recordings. He died unexpectedly in his sleep in Swansea on 12 December 1998, aged seventy.
Read more about Bob Auger here.