Speechification » school http://speechification.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:17:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Nun Who Nurtured Reggae http://speechification.com/2008/03/07/the-nun-who-nurtured-reggae/ http://speechification.com/2008/03/07/the-nun-who-nurtured-reggae/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:55:25 +0000 russell http://speechification.com/2008/03/07/the-nun-who-nurtured-reggae/ The title says it all really. It's the story of Sister Mary Ignatius Davis of the Alpha Boys School, Jamaica. The school encouraged 'wayward boys' to get interested in music; creating generation of musicians who played key parts in the creation of the Jamaica music business and culture. And 'Sister Iggy' ran her own sound system and had a massive collection of reggae records. MP3 here.

(Interestingly there's very little information about the programme on the Radio 4 site, or on the official programme page, but there's a long interview, and fascinating extra stuff on the BBC Caribbean page, which still has the show on Listen Again)

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