I’ve been meaning to post this mesmerising episode of WNYC’s Radio Lab since I listened to it late at night while working through a mountain of New Year washing-up a couple of weeks ago. Maybe it was the drink (drink had been taken) but I think this is the best single radio programme I’ve heard in years. It’s about Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Gorgeous, joyful radio (MP3).
I found this treasure at the bottom of my iTunes library. It went out as part of The Times’ (apparently moribund) classical podcast back in January. It’s an interview with Maria Callas recorded forty years ago. She’s everything you’d expect of an operatic diva of the old school. The unnamed interviewer (I think Callas calls him ‘Mr Dance’) fawns expertly and Callas delivers the unnerving mix of fragility, coquettishness and steely self-belief that caused millions to love her. Blimey (MP3, podcast).
A 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.
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