Laurie Taylor’s Thinking Allowed can slip very easily into patrician BBC mode, but in this broadcast it manages to keep it’s head above water, and however many times I hear it, I’m a sucker for Iain Sinclair’s Dracula-in-Purfleet, Martians-in-Woking spiel. Throw in some stuff about Ballard and post-war planning, and I’m sold. [MP3]
Solid Radio 4 this story of the D-villages of County Durham. It stirs some human sympathy and makes you think. In some ways it’s a tiny story, bureaucracy colliding with people, made more to seem more brutal through the use of initial letters to mark a village for likely demise. A perfectly sensible system that manages to look quite inhuman. Ah, I’m waffling on, have a listen. MP3 here.
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