Archive on 4 spends a good hour digging into the history of racial conflict in the East End of the 1970s. Bangladeshi community groups, right-wing thugs, Rock Against Racism. As ever with the Archive, it's the interviews that bring the period to life. [MP3]
I'm only putting this up because I was goaded to by 'Birmingham: It's Not Shit (mildly sarcastic since 2002)'. The best bit of this essentially indescribable doc is the laughter of a contemporary Brummie audience at the 1980 vision of their city presented in 'Telly Savalas looks at Birmingham'. You can see parts of the film itself here and here. (MP3)
I'm a little late with this, but things pertaining to Sir Arthur C. Clarke tend to have a timeless quality. Just after his recent death, ABC Radio National's Late Night Live show re-broadcast an interview with Clarke from 2001. It's a gentle listen, as host Philip Adams carefully and respectfully coaxes memories out of Clarke - on such matters as working with Stanley Kubrick, science and religion, marriage, writing, pondering death and satellites, and so on. We also discover that 2001 is one of the Pope's favourite movies. All of this quietly and humbly revealed in Clarke's warm Somerset burr, still detectable over a crackly line from Sri Lanka to Sydney.
Late Night Live: Arthur C. Clarke [mp3]
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