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Radio Roundup
Dec. 19th, 2013 03:51 pmI've been hauling my laptop in to work a bit more than usual, so here's a list of radio picks for the second week in a row!
In the running theme of 'therapy for Tealin through radio shows,' another blast from my childhood: When I was five, my dad read me Watership Down as a serial bedtime story, which is probably at the root of my anglophilia and unrealistic expectations of children's entertainment. Radio 4 Extra is running a radio dramatisation of it! It's ... not what it could be ... but the story is great so there's only so far you can go wrong. Hear them rocket through a 500-page book in two hours: Part 1 and Part 2 will see you through. Then read the book.
An omnibus of last week's A Cause for Caroling is available for the next couple of days, which you can follow up with this week's episodes:
A Second Golden Age - By the mid 19th century, the singing of carols was once again hugely popular.
Folk Carol Survival and Revival - Carol wars!
The Birth of Nine Lessons With Carols - The 19th-century enthusiasm for carols sung in church resulted in a vehicle in which they could take a leading role.
Import and Export - in the first half of the 20th century, carols from all over the world became more popular (which cheesed off R.V. Williams).
Ring in the New - the success of new carols over the last century, the continued appeal of the carol, and why, while it's been in decline throughout its history, it continues to thrive.
Simon Bovey is the writer of a number of excellent best-kind-of-pulp radio plays, and I knew he'd written one set in Antarctica, but I'd always missed the first couple episodes so I never properly heard the real thing. I caught it this time, though! Cold Blood is about opening the White Continent up to profit-driven enterprise, the clash of ideologies, and a scientist who goes a little bit too far. At least, that's the A plot; a lot of fun is to be had in playing Spot The Scott References, which eventually devolves into Esoterica Or Coincidence? Needless to say, I am riveted. Episodes One, Two, Three, and Four and Five are available until Monday, at which point they start disappearing day by day. And there's a very good interview with him here.
Only one item from the CBC this week, mainly because I haven't been listening to them much: The Degrowth Paradigm looks at a growing movement of people declaring independence from the dominant economic models of recent centuries. It's got its fair share of fringe wackoism but if you can filter out the more radical statements there are some very compelling thoughts in there, especially if you know A Short History of Progress.
In the running theme of 'therapy for Tealin through radio shows,' another blast from my childhood: When I was five, my dad read me Watership Down as a serial bedtime story, which is probably at the root of my anglophilia and unrealistic expectations of children's entertainment. Radio 4 Extra is running a radio dramatisation of it! It's ... not what it could be ... but the story is great so there's only so far you can go wrong. Hear them rocket through a 500-page book in two hours: Part 1 and Part 2 will see you through. Then read the book.
An omnibus of last week's A Cause for Caroling is available for the next couple of days, which you can follow up with this week's episodes:
A Second Golden Age - By the mid 19th century, the singing of carols was once again hugely popular.
Folk Carol Survival and Revival - Carol wars!
The Birth of Nine Lessons With Carols - The 19th-century enthusiasm for carols sung in church resulted in a vehicle in which they could take a leading role.
Import and Export - in the first half of the 20th century, carols from all over the world became more popular (which cheesed off R.V. Williams).
Ring in the New - the success of new carols over the last century, the continued appeal of the carol, and why, while it's been in decline throughout its history, it continues to thrive.
Simon Bovey is the writer of a number of excellent best-kind-of-pulp radio plays, and I knew he'd written one set in Antarctica, but I'd always missed the first couple episodes so I never properly heard the real thing. I caught it this time, though! Cold Blood is about opening the White Continent up to profit-driven enterprise, the clash of ideologies, and a scientist who goes a little bit too far. At least, that's the A plot; a lot of fun is to be had in playing Spot The Scott References, which eventually devolves into Esoterica Or Coincidence? Needless to say, I am riveted. Episodes One, Two, Three, and Four and Five are available until Monday, at which point they start disappearing day by day. And there's a very good interview with him here.
Only one item from the CBC this week, mainly because I haven't been listening to them much: The Degrowth Paradigm looks at a growing movement of people declaring independence from the dominant economic models of recent centuries. It's got its fair share of fringe wackoism but if you can filter out the more radical statements there are some very compelling thoughts in there, especially if you know A Short History of Progress.
