Posts Tagged ‘Finland’

The Land Of The Mobile Millionaires

January 30th, 2008 by Russell Davies

I was prompted to wander over to the World Service this evening for a rummage around their documentary archive. Most of the links seem to point to programmes sitting on the News site, which is no bad thing. It’s all well-organised with full and helpful pages giving you useful background and there are all sorts of listening, streaming and downloading options. This programme about the economic and social effects of Nokia on Finland is a lovely example. MP3 here. Hurrah for the World Service.

Presenter: Matthew Sweet
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Wizard of Oz

January 12th, 2008 by Steve Bowbrick

Here’s a beautiful thing. A 40-minute feature from RTE’s Documentary on One strand about Amos Oz, Israeli novelist and humanist. It’s a lovely programme, based on his 2005 memoir A Tale of Love & Darkness. Oz is fascinating and humane and I could easily have filled this post with luminous quotes from the programme.

An intriguing detail is that it’s an adaptation of a programme originally made by Barbo Holmsberg for the Finnish state broadcaster YLE (I wonder if it’s Holmsberg narrating the programme). Anyway, for me that’s another hint of the speech radio richness that must exist out there beyond the English language fortress (MP3).

Producer: Lorelei Harris
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