Lovely, slow-paced, contemplative Radio 3 Sunday Feature about Byzantium and its continued influence. Pretty much the exact opposite of the Russell Brand Show in so many ways… What a rich and varied thing the BBC is. Here’s the MP3 and here’s the programme page.
Developing speechification’s Christmas theme, here’s one of four 15-minute docs about Christmas preparations. This one was recorded on a famous goose farm in Worcestershire. It’s an unpretentious programme but you couldn’t find a better snapshot of Britain right now: food, class, labour, rural economics, immigration… It’s all here (and the farm’s matriarch sounds exactly like a posh French & Saunders character). Here’s an MP3 (and here’s an earlier episode - about a nativity play - that’ll make you cry: MP3).
bookmarks by: delicious.comA 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.
Your hosts on this not very wild ride are Steve Bowbrick, Russell Davies, Dan Hill, Bobbie Johnson, Roo Reynolds and James Bridle. Drop us a line with your thoughts, unless you wish to complain about continuity announcers and their accents.
You might also enjoy the square-eyed sister site, Watchification.
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