Speechification » Paul Gambaccini http://speechification.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:17:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Prom of Peace http://speechification.com/2008/02/13/the-prom-of-peace/ http://speechification.com/2008/02/13/the-prom-of-peace/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:27:14 +0000 Steve Bowbrick http://speechification.com/2008/02/13/the-prom-of-peace/ I like the way Speechification is turning into a useful reference on programme makers and themes. Click on Paul Gambaccini's name in the links below and you'll get a page with all the shows presented by him that we've featured here. Imagine how useful this will be in a few years time! So I'm really just posting this terrific show from his 'For One Night Only' series to bump up the Paul Gambaccini quotient (MP3).

]]> http://speechification.com/2008/02/13/the-prom-of-peace/feed/ 0 Lawrence of Arabia (and some amazing interviews from the silent era) http://speechification.com/2008/02/03/lawrence-of-arabia-and-interviews-from-the-silent-era/ http://speechification.com/2008/02/03/lawrence-of-arabia-and-interviews-from-the-silent-era/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:34:57 +0000 Steve Bowbrick http://speechification.com/2008/02/03/lawrence-of-arabia-and-interviews-from-the-silent-era/ Paul Gambaccini seems to have become the Beeb's unofficial historian of 20th Century pop culture. He's got a new four-part series about the Oscars which has got off to a good start with a show about the 1962 best picture Lawrence of Arabia. Contributors include David Thomson, Kenneth Turan, Bob Osborne and - my favourite - Kevin Brownlow.

Actually David Thomson is my favourite really (his Biographical Dictionary of Film is a genuine wonder) but I needed a reason to link to an exceptional Brownlow programme from March 2005 featuring his interviews with artists of the silent era. So here (for the podcast) is the Gambaccini programme (MP3) and here (for later) is the Brownlow (MP3).

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