If Radio 3's The Essay had a podcast, I wouldn't need to keep adding them here. But they're so good. This week's theme is "New Generation Thinkers", a series focussing on new work by young academics, and you should listen to all of them really. Here's the first one, from Monday: Amira Bennison of Cambridge University discusses Islamic history and globalisation. [MP3]
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.
Always poking around for interesting English-language speech radio I came across Network Europe, which is described as 'a partnership of the continent's international broadcasters' (not including the BBC, as far as I can tell). This show, which went out in January, is about Islam in European cities and, in particular, about the building of Mosques (MP3).
Steve Evans talks to religious people about business, including an American evangelist whose Dallas construction firm actually belongs to God (MP3). This is the Christmas Day edition of Business Daily on the World Service.
bookmarks by: delicious.comA blog of Radio 4. Not about Radio 4 but of it. We point to the bits we like, the bits you might have missed, the bits that someone might have sneakily recorded. Other speech radio from around the world will no doubt find its way here too.
Of course, one day this might turn into something else, maybe a new way of curating speech radio, or maybe it won’t.
Your hosts on this not very wild ride are Steve Bowbrick, Russell Davies, Dan Hill, Bobbie Johnson and James Bridle. Drop us a line with your thoughts, unless you wish to complain about continuity announcers and their accents.
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