Category: SOTTC
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Last Day Making Sounds of the 20th Century
A photo to prove that you don’t need a fancy studio to make great radio. This is engineer Ali, sat in my dining room, using ProTools on his laptop, plugged into my non-specialist-audio speakers. The last 10 minutes of the series will be a jet-propelled journey back through the 50…
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Does Radio Have to be a Secondary Medium?
One of the most interesting bits of feedback we’ve received from Sounds of the 20th Century (BBC Radio 2, Thursdays 10pm) is that it’s a really active listen. People want to know what that clip was, who said that, do they remember it, what were they doing at the time.…
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#sottc Week 1
We have been genuinely delighted with the feedback from the first episode of Sounds. The Independent and The Radio Times (“surprisingly immersive, quietly informative and – vitally – very entertaining”) were very complimentary but The Telegraph gets the red rosette for loveliness: Once in a while a series comes along…
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Sounds of the 20th Century: Web stuff
Our page went live on the BBC Radio 2 site yesterday! You can find the series home here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0103r3t and each episode will sit under that. Very exciting. We’re also going to be writing an unofficial blog of the series here: http://sottc.wordpress.com/ – which will include links and YouTube videos…
Heather Davies 