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Between the Ears: Mole Jazz

January 21st, 2009 by Steve Bowbrick

Mole Jazz in Kings Cross

Leni Dipple put up with her infuriating jazz obsessive husband Ed for as long as she could but in the end she left him. A few years later he and his amazing shop Mole Jazz died. In this lovely Between The Ears she sets out to find out what made him tick.

Here's the MP3, here's a page from Fly with some more history, here's a poem by Leni and here's a page of recordings from the British Library's oral history of British Jazz that you might be able to listen to if you're at a British university or college.

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Killer Bs

August 17th, 2008 by Russell Davies

It's a little quiet here at Speechification towers isn't it? Sorry about that. We all appear to be on holiday and /or watching the Olympics. Anyway. Here's something splendid to keep you going - a documentary about B-sides, one of those documentaries that makes you realise there's far more to a topic than meets the eye. I especially liked the bit about Phil Spector making awful jazz B-sides for records so DJs wouldn't play the 'wrong' song. And here's a lovely little bit by the programme maker about the tribulations of voice-overing. MP3 here.

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