civil rights

Selling Malcolm X

September 28th, 2008 by Steve Bowbrick

The true function of Speechification is to uncover the gems you missed or the ones you heard and would like to hear again. I suppose this is the kind of thing we might expect the BBC to do for us but while they’re getting around to it, here’s another terrific programme from my archive: it’s about Malcolm X and his influence but it’s also about a remarkable moment, just a few years ago, when history sort of leaked through into the present: on eBay of all places. Excellent. Here’s the MP3 and the show’s web site which has some background.

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