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The radio industry's top awards ceremony is traditionally dominated by the big names of broadcasting such as Terry Wogan, John Humphrys and the controversial BBC Radio 1 breakfast DJ Chris Moyles.But Radio 1 failed to win a single category at tonight's Sony Radio Academy awards at the Grosvenor House hotel in London, where the limelight was stolen by the unlikeliest of winners - Brixton's prison radio station. Electric Radio Brixton won four prizes, including two prestigious gold awards.Run by the Prison Radio Association (PRA), whose patrons include Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow, most of the station's music and speech output is produced and presented by prisoners. With a tagline of 'making waves behind bars', it broadcasts 24 hours a day, but only inside the prison walls.At the awards nomination ceremony last month, there were plenty of jokes about a 'captive audience'. Its interview with former Belmarsh inmate Jonathan Aitken, the MP who was jailed for perjury, was among its winn

The radio industry's top awards ceremony is traditionally dominated by the big names of broadcasting such as Terry Wogan, John Humphrys and the controversial BBC Radio 1 breakfast DJ Chris Moyles.But Radio 1 failed to win a single category at tonight's Sony Radio Academy awards at the Grosvenor House hotel in London, where the limelight was stolen by the unlikeliest of winners - Brixton's prison radio station. Electric Radio Brixton won four prizes, including two prestigious gold awards.Run by the Prison Radio Association (PRA), whose patrons include Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow, most of the station's music and speech output is produced and presented by prisoners. With a tagline of 'making waves behind bars', it broadcasts 24 hours a day, but only inside the prison walls.At the awards nomination ceremony last month, there were plenty of jokes about a 'captive audience'. Its interview with former Belmarsh inmate Jonathan Aitken, the MP who was jailed for perjury, was among its winn

'[T]he new Broadway-bound musical about the winds of change blowing though the haunted mansion of the famously macabre family will star two-time Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth' as Gomez and Morticia. The show is based on the original Charles Addams cartoons, not the TV series....

A tiny prison radio station in London is competing against the BBC for a prestigious award.

The multi-award-winning NoHo Arts Center Ensemble (NoHo ACE) in association with 49th Parallel Theatre present the American Premiere of EAST OF BERLIN, written by Hannah Moscovitch and directed by Chris 'CB' Brown and Sara Botsford.

Anonymous letters to electors revive allegations of sexual harassment against Nobel laureateDocuments highlighting allegations of sexual harassment against Nobel laureate Derek Walcott have been sent anonymously to Oxford academics in an attempt to influence next weekend's election of Oxford's professor of poetry.Walcott is one of three candidates in the running for the position, the most influential in poetry behind the poet laureateship. Backed by Booker winner Alan Hollinghurst, fellow poet Jenny Joseph, Marina Warner, Graham Robb and Professor Hermione Lee, Walcott has been considered the front runner for the position, ahead of Ruth Padel (who is supported by names including Victoria Glendinning, AC Grayling and laureate Carol Ann Duffy) and the little-known Indian poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra.With the position voted for by Oxford graduates on 16 May, the smear campaign - which saw between 50 and 100 Oxford academics sent photocopied pages from a book detailing an accusation of se

Actor Danny Glover joined labor, political and civil-rights leaders on one of the first stops of a four-day, 11-state tour supporting U.S. manufacturing workers.

It's less than a month until the 63rd Annual Tony Awards, so in honor of those honoring Broadway's best, I'll be making mention of a lot of Tony Trivia...

As the 2009 Cannes Film Festival draws near, filmmakers who have made the event's short list hope that their films will be blessed with that hard-to-earn Cannes buzz, which could lead to awards and financial success. But the story doesn't always have a Hollywood ending.

TV News: Talkshows, specials given seperate categories -- Gabbers like 'The Daily Show' will no longer have to face off with big events like the Academy Awards in two key Primetime Emmy categories.