There's not a huge amount to say about this. It's a fascinating couple of programmes about fanzines fronted by the splendid Mr Jarvis Cocker. Here's prog one, and here's prog two. As requested by Joe. (Yes, we do requests pop-pickers)
Speechification is a celebration of speech radio from around the (English-speaking) world. It's maintained (intermittently, it has to be said) by a scattered band of listeners most of whom live in Britain, which explains the preponderance of programmes from Radio 4, the nation's number 1 speech network.
We record or link to programmes and wrap the whole lot up in a podcast, which is probably the best way to absorb this stuff.
Of course, one day this might turn into something else, maybe a new way of curating speech radio. Or maybe it won’t.
"Jon Culshaw uncovers an extraordinary audio archive of early Morecambe and Wise material, including a number of long lost tapes. This is a genuine archive find of real importance. A few years ago, Doreen Wise, widow of Ernie, cleared the old family garage of piles of tapes and 78 recordings." For Speechification. […]
the four-day "Football War" of 1959 between Honduras and El Salvador, a tragic tale which ever way you look at it, but possibly the most forceful example going of sport as an extension of national pride and passion […]