Adam Buxton, one half of BBC 6 Music’s award-winning duo Adam and Joe, is to return to the digital station with a solo music show.

Buxton, whose Saturday morning breakfast show is on a long-term break while his partner, Joe Cornish, directs a film, said his new show would feature his “favourite weird but accessible music”. He hoped Adam and Joe would return later this year.

Half of the two-hour show will feature a guest talking about their own favourite music “and just talk generally about any other rubbish that comes up”, said Buxton on his blog today.

A pilot for the new show, featuring The Mighty Boosh’s Julian Barratt, is being recorded tomorrow for broadcast this month.

“If it all goes to plan Joe and I will be back together for our show later in the year but until then I’m hoping to do a show on my own and this week I’ll be recording a pilot for a weekly two-hour show with our regular producer James Stirling in London,” Buxton said.

“It’s supposed to be kind of like a compilation tape that I’ve made for the listeners with a different theme or mood each week. The show is two hours so it’s divided into two sides with a guest joining me for an hour to add their own tracks and just talk generally about any other rubbish that comes up.”

6 Music has been earmarked for closure by BBC director general Mark Thompson’s strategy review, prompting a huge backlash from listeners and the music industry.

“As you may have gathered it’s been a turbulent few days for 6 Music,” said Buxton. “Last week I was called upon to say my part on Channel 4 News though apart from inviting Mark Thomo Thompson out for some punching I didn’t really say anything very useful. All the stirring and important stuff I’d been planning went out of the window as soon as I heard the man in my earpiece telling me we were live in five seconds. After that it was just a question of not weeping or swearing.”

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PETALING JAYA: A music teacher has been charged in the magistrates court here with murdering her 46-year-old British boyfriend in his rented house at SS2 last Friday.

A handcuffed Karen Khaw Phaik Ean, 36, listened calmly as the charge was read out to her before magistrate Ho Kwong Chin yesterday.

No plea was recorded. She was also not offered any bail.

Ho fixed April 13 for mention and consent from the prosecution to transfer the case to the High Court.

Lawyer Chan Weng Keng, who represented Khaw, told the court that he was denied access to see his client on Tuesday at the Petaling Jaya police station where she was detained.

He then requested to be given half an hour to see Khaw to discuss matters with her, to which the magistrate consented.

Chan later told reporters that Khaw informed him some RM700 was missing from her wallet while she was in police custody.

œI have advised her family to lodge a police report on the matter, he said.

Deputy public prosecutor Zhafran Rahim Hamzah appeared for the prosecution.

Khaw was charged with causing the death of Andrew Michael Murchie between 8am and 9am on March 5.

She was charged with murder under Section 302 of the Penal Code, which carries the death sentence.

It was reported that Murchie, believed to be a former army personnel, was found dead with stab and slash wounds on his neck.

Khaw found his body sprawled naked on the floor of a room in the double-storey house.

The cost of the annual BBC colour TV licence fee will increase by 2% to £145.50 per household from 1 April.

Next month’s licence fee increase was brought into effect by an order laid before the House of Commons today, which will also see the cost of a black and white TV licence increase by £1 to £49.

This is the fourth year of a six-year licence fee deal between the BBC and the government, which runs to the end of March 2013.

The future of the annual licence fee increase is more uncertain than at any time in the BBC’s almost 90-year history, with both Labour and the Conservatives talking about the corporation potentially having to get by with less money.

Last year the Tories took the unusual step of forcing a Commons vote on the annual licence fee increase, arguing that it should be frozen at £139.50.

However, this move was defeated by 334 votes to 156 with the backing of Labour and Lib Dem MPs.

The current six-year licence fee deal, negotiated in 2006, allowed for a 3% annual increase for the first three years, then two years with a 2% boost. The level of the licence fee for the final year, up to the end of March 2013, has yet to be set.

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