The Man Making Waves Radio Scotland Is Changing: Controller Jeff Zycinski Reveals His Radical Plans for the Future. By Anne Simpson
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SLEEPLESS in Easterhouse, Jeff Zycinski surrendered happily to insomnia's embrace, a teenager on a world adventure, turning the radio dial in the dark to shortwave stations where he could "eavesdrop" on unfamiliar territories.
"There's nothing like that thrill of listening to the radio on your own in the dead of night, " he says. "I would move the dial along and there would be Radio Moscow, Voice of America, Radio Prague, whatever. It was intoxicating. A lot of my generation came to love radio that way."See the full content of this document
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The Man Making Waves Radio Scotland Is Changing: Controller Jeff Zycinski Reveals His Radical Plans for the Future. By Anne Simpson
That obsession of more than 30 years ago has not harmed Zycinski.
In January, he was appointed head of radio for BBC Scotland, a man who, in the bleak climate of the corporation's intended redundancies, must now yank morale up and increase the creative muscle of the station. "It's a difficult time. People are worried about jobs but without redundancies we can't achieve the efficiencies that will release money into p...See the full content of this document
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