He's been based back at Darwen Street for the past few years, and now also hosts BBC Radio Lancashire's weekly music nostalgia programme 'Unforgettable' every Monday evening.

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On a recent Tuesday morning, the DJs and interns pour into Lesley James' narrow office for their weekly music meeting -- a kind of rate-a-record free-for-all for new releases.

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We suspended Mixed Signals yesterday, in honor of July 4th, so we missed our weekly Tuesday music notes.

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Berkeley, who became a CBE in 2012 for services to music, has been presenting the weekly Radio 3 programme Private Passions for more than 15 years.

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In 25 years, SXSW has mushroomed from a tiny music festival run by the local alt-weekly to a ten-day extravaganza attended by some 49, 000 people that, together with spring-break traffic, causes unholy traffic jams on Interstate 35 into and out of Austin (and has turned those same editors into decidedly wealthy entrepreneurs).

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For in addition to his higher-profile roles as a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and as a controversial commentator on Middle Eastern and international politics, Said was music critic at America's foremost left-leaning political weekly, the Nation, from 1986 until his death in 2003.

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