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The radio industry has lost a giant in Paul Chantler. His mastery of so many elements of our trade - news, music, programming, presentation, the law - made him the perfect panellist at a conference I chaired last autumn marking the Golden Jubilee of commercial radio. RIP Paul.

bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… Who'd have thought there are now more Giant Redwoods in the UK than in California?

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US and UK launch military strikes against Houthi militants in Yemen following attacks on shipping in the Red Sea bbc.in/41TgheM

Absolute kudos to the TfL team at #TufnellPark tube who calmly diffused a deeply unpleasant situation just now as they were accosted by two very aggressive men. One of them threatened me just for looking in their direction but the staff stayed calm and professional

‘O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done..’

A wonderful memorial service for George Alagiah - a generous BBC colleague, a generous in spirit human being. We all have so many stories of the good times that we spent in his company. His legacy lives on in us all.

Wow what a beautiful night of music courtesy Tessa Rose Jackson (Someone) supremely talented musician and songwriter

Brilliantly done #PeterJackson Paul McCartney #RingoStarr The Beatles You nailed it!

Love this from Paul McCartney: Is it something we shouldn’t do? Every time I thought like that I thought, wait a minute, let’s say I had a chance to ask John: ‘Hey John, would you like us to finish this last song of yours?’ I’m telling you, I know the answer would have been Yeah!

I hope that wherever he is, whatever he's doing, Johnny Marr is having a splendid 60th birthday. Here's a playlist of songs whose excellence is either partly or wholly attributable to the magical things that happen when he picks up a guitar. open.spotify.com/playlist/3mkJB…

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:

'Look again at that dot. That's here. That's…

We've just had a library book returned that was due back in 1974 how's your day going?

Just the 47 years... blimey what an innings. It was a great pleasure to work with Nick over many years - wishing him a fantastic retirement - he deserves it!

A further look inside the immersive MSG Sphere arena in Las Vegas, which opened with a U2 concert

The 18K resolution wraparound LED screen measuring 160,000 sq ft (15,000 m²) with 166,000 speakers. The largest & highest-resolution LED screen in the world
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