Iono.fm's Ryan Dingley on his online audio radio start-up and its pan-African expansion plans

Ryan Dingley, Founder and CEO, Iono.fm talks about: what Iono.fm does; why it avoids music radio; the enormous growth it has experienced in South Africa; the changes in radio listening behaviour; its latest funding round;the business model and its data-based approach to advertising. ... read more
August 2, 2015

Jane Lewisohn - the Flowers radio show and the renaissance of Iranian music and poetry it encouraged

Jane Lewisohn, Research Associate, Department of Music, SOAS, University of London and Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter University talks about: the Flowers (Golha) radio show which ran in Iran from 1956 until the start of the Islamic revolution; the founder of the programme Davoud Pirnia; the success of the programmes with the public and their impact on Iranian culture, particularly music and poetry; the flowering of a Persian identity; and the changes in the programme when Davoud Pirnia retired. See: www.golha.co.uk ... read more
April 29, 2013