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Killer Bs

August 17th, 2008 by Russell Davies

It’s a little quiet here at Speechification towers isn’t it? Sorry about that. We all appear to be on holiday and /or watching the Olympics. Anyway. Here’s something splendid to keep you going - a documentary about B-sides, one of those documentaries that makes you realise there’s far more to a topic than meets the eye. I especially liked the bit about Phil Spector making awful jazz B-sides for records so DJs wouldn’t play the ‘wrong’ song. And here’s a lovely little bit by the programme maker about the tribulations of voice-overing. MP3 here.

Presenter: Anthony Barnes
Producer: Simon Hollis
Production Company: Brook Lapping
Listen: [MP3]

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One Response to “Killer Bs”

  1. Steve Bowbrick Says:
    August 20th, 2008 at 8:53 pm

    Lovely. I listened to this on the way into town and then afterwards listened to King Crimson’s 21st Century Schizoid Man on my new Nokia phone and experienced a sort of small personal singularity. The collapsing black hole of digital media practically sucked me in there and then. What a journey we’ve come on these last twenty years…

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