I’ve started this post about five times in the last week. And it’s no good, I can’t think of anything clever to say about this programme. It’s a series of UK soundscapes, each faded into the next, with a little puzzle buried in it. It’s very good and everything, it’s part of the always listenable Between The Ears series on Radio 3, but I can’t think of anything to add. You should just have a listen. MP3 here.
Here’s something from the archive. A programme from Radio 3’s long-running feature series Between the Ears. I recorded it in January 2003.
This edition is pretty grim on paper: a kind of meditation on the death of children, putting together stories from parents who’ve lost children (including David Harrington from the Kronos Quartet) with Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder (a heartbreaking setting of poems by Rückert written on the death of one of his children).
I hesitated to put this one up because, speaking as a parent, it’s quite hard to listen to but there’s nothing gratuitous about it, it’s put together beautifully and there’s real insight. I’d like to link to the programme’s web page but Radio 3’s archive only goes back as far as 2004. Here’s the MP3.
The photo of Mahler, taken in 1909, is from the Wikimedia Commons.
A blog of Radio 4. Not about Radio 4 but of it. We point to the bits we like, the bits you might have missed, the bits that someone might have sneakily recorded. Other speech radio from around the world will no doubt find its way here too.
Of course, one day this might turn into something else, maybe a new way of curating speech radio, or maybe it won’t.
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