Speechification » broadcastinghouse http://speechification.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:17:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 PM Poppy Portrait Piece http://speechification.com/2008/01/20/pm-poppy-portrait-piece/ http://speechification.com/2008/01/20/pm-poppy-portrait-piece/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:37:02 +0000 roo http://speechification.com/2008/01/20/pm-poppy-portrait-piece/ I don't often listen to the whole of Radio 4's 'Broadcasting House' programme (because smug reviews of newspapers usually annoy me), but I was glad to catch the final five minutes of this morning's edition. Paddy O'Connell interviews the artist Jonathan Yeo, who unveiled his portrait of Blair yesterday. Here is a recording of just that final four-minute segment (MP3).

Photo: Reuters

In this slot, Jonathan Yeo talks eloquently about the way the poppy in the painting subverts the New Labour rose, as well as being an allusion to the the war(s) for which Blair will be remembered.

We don't often share just a short clip of a programme, and I wonder if you think it works. In case you did want to listen to the show in its entirety, the stream is now online too, and Broadcasting House has its own podcast too.

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