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Archive Hour - New York 77 Blackout

July 18th, 2008 by Russell Davies

I don’t think I’d had the nerve to post another Archive Hour, it seems we do it every week, but this one was a listener request so I couldn’t resist. And it is a complete audio joy. The words, the voices, the music are all great, a welcome departure from the Radio 4 norm in the use of music. But the sheer sound of it is delicious. Lots of crackly phones, under-powered tape recorders, badly tuned radios. It’s incredibly evocative. Hats off to Brook Lapping who made it, and in an absolutely unheard departure for a radio production company, mention it on their website! Genius. MP3 here.

Presenter: Sydney Schanberg
Producer: Simon Hollis
Production Company: Brook Lapping
Listen: [MP3]

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3 Responses to “Archive Hour - New York 77 Blackout”

  1. Steve Bowbrick Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    I think the only way to get away with it is to stop billing them as Archive Hours! We ought to just put a standing link in the sidebar I suppose. I mean it’s just our kind of radio show isn’t it!

  2. jockblue Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    Thanks for putting this on the site - I was the one who requested it. I vaguely remember this as a young kid at the time, and it was a fascinating programme.

  3. Webkatalog Says:
    October 3rd, 2008 at 10:35 am

    I have this informativ and excelent site bookmarked. Thanks from Webkatalog

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