Remembering Duncan Larkin

“I grew up slowly,” Duncan Larkin admitted to me a couple of years ago. I had mentioned to him some rather sticky moments during his spells at Radio Aire in Leeds and at World Radio Geneva. He delivered this verdict on his younger self with that...
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Over the past three decades the French have been drinking less and less wine but at the same time turning to other tipples - including, surprisingly, absinthe. That drink has an interesting story. Its basic ingredients are wormwood, fennel and anis. In the second half of the nineteenth century...
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A while back we got an enquiry about scouting. Baden-Powellism never really caught on here in a big way and until not long ago, even in the English-speaking world, the movement has been in decline: modern boys weren’t too keen on funny hats and shorts and fiddling with knots. There’s been quite...
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Not everyone agrees with the direction Morris Communications has taken Riviera Radio. Many residents would like a less flashy approach and a return to the community station it was until a decade ago. But whatever its chosen path in these trouble times, a media concern in difficulty gets...
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VAR Special Report / Bulletin from the BPCA to its clients

The Department of the Var has just been subjected to violent storms. Human and property losses are substantial.

Banque Populaire Côte d’Azur has decided to react quickly and provide a number of...
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