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Category Archives: Music
A Change Is Gonna Come
5 November, 2008 – 1:13 pm
Dancing In The Aisles
7 October, 2008 – 4:55 pm
Three little videos that show people 1 dancing2 in the aisles3.
It will be a long time before I can erase the image of the old biddy in the pink cardigan, or the large lady in lime from my mind.
Thanks to Hugo for these gems. Soundtrack is Not Safe For Work. Deffo, as they say.
Footnotes for [...]
Humphrey Lyttleton’s Tribute to Louis Prima - Repeated on BBC Radio 4
16 June, 2008 – 11:04 pm
Another chance, as they say, to hear (the late) Humphrey Lyttleton’s appraisal of Louis Prima on BBC Radio 4. As Humphrey says, most people knew Prima only as the voice of King Louie in The Jungle Book, but there was much more to him than that one song. Prima and his band [...]
Countryman’s Cooking - W.M.W.Fowler’s Cookery for Men
4 April, 2008 – 1:47 am
The forthright and wildly eccentric musings on food and its preparation written by an RAF bomber pilot who returned from prison camp after WW2 to his bleak homeland where rationing and a long tradition of terrible cuisine frustrated his yearning for a decent meal.
Leslie Phillips reads from WMW Fowler’s definitive cookery manual for men. [...]
Tilt - Statebook
3 April, 2008 – 3:02 am
Tilt is a new topical comedy programme fom BBC Radio 7, and one of its first episodes deals with the question: Why does the government need to issue ID cards when we have Facebook?
This short sketch is called “StateBook”.
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Downcast Our Podload
4 March, 2008 – 3:56 pm
One of my favourite radio programmes is Professor Laurie Taylor’s “Thinking Allowed“.
This week’s programme included an unusual invitation. (Click the button below and listen carefully.)
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Jeff Healey R.I.P.
3 March, 2008 – 8:50 pm
The retinoblastoma that robbed him of his eyesight when he was a very small child, extinguished his brilliant life today.
Here’s an amazing clip of him playing Look At Little Sister, with the man who composed it, the late Stevie Ray Vaughan. Sorry about the quality of the sound, it was taped from a one [...]
Spot The Howler
30 January, 2008 – 1:58 am
I was listening to a repeat of the most amazing programme about an extremely ancient murder mystery - 2 million years old to be exact - that was part of a Radio 4 Science broadcast.
In the first minute of this fascinating piece, the scientists presenting the show completely threw away their credibility. Listen to [...]
Jiri Bartoš
10 January, 2008 – 12:04 am
From the “Adršpach” Mountains 1999
Winter Graphics 1983
Hoarfrost in the “Jizerské” Mountains 2004
Some thumbnails of his photographic work here, but the enlargements have disappeared from that auction site now. If you click the thumbnails above, they will reveal the enlargements, however.
If you google his name, you come across an amazing story of a man with [...]
Do You Listen To Radio While You Work?
5 January, 2008 – 1:49 am
If you are involved in long hours producing predominately image based work, and you like a bit of engaging radio to occupy your other hemisphere, you might be interested in this: A visual radio tuner, called Tun3r.com
(Click the image to open up a bigger picture) (And I mean Big.)
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