Speechification

Here’s another quickie. I heard this one in the car and it had me sort of chortling (gurgling?) with pleasure. Not because it’s funny (although it is) but because it’s almost perfect radio. Presenter Vivienne Parry’s a proper grown-up broadcaster with a personality, opinions and loads of wit. She oozes confidence and pleasure in what she does (and she used to present Tomorrow’s World!).

In this half-hour feature (obviously my favourite kind of show, looking back through Speechification’s lengthening archive), she asks “what did the doomed heroines of all those Victorian novels actually die of?” and she rounds up a bunch of fascinating doctors and literary types to provide some answers. This is precisely what I pay my licence fee for (MP3, Real).

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