Speechification

It went like this: Matt Jones got a bit excited about the unprecedented collision of Welsh language politics and groovy Catalan network-sociologist Manuel Castells on Analysis. Russell and I noted that the edition he was going on about had been overwritten and whinged a bit about the absence of a proper Analysis archive. I suggested it would be fun to read out a transcript of the show for the speechification podcast.

So I beetled off to find the transcript (a feature of Analysis since before there were podcasts - or web sites for that matter) and found that… there isn’t one. I wrote to the Analysis people wondering where it was and got an apologetic email from (award-winning) series editor Hugh Levinson. Hugh said that the transcripts had been cancelled because they were too expensive but offered me an MP3 of the show.

Bingo, I thought. I told Hugh it was for Speechification and he wrote back with some nice words about Speechification and an MP3. So, with a short delay (and a very BBC bottleneck) I bring you a really fascinating edition of Analysis about the passions and contradictions of indiginous language politics presented by Welshman Mukul Devichand (and featuring cheeky Catalan Manuel Castells) (MP3).

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