July 2019

Gallipoli

If you’re looking for stupid, pointless wastes of human life in the First World War, you really are spoilt for choice, but, even among such inauspicious company, the Gallipoli campaign manages to stand out as particularly stupid and particularly pointless. To sum up: The Ottoman Empire sort-of-accidentally entered the war on the side of the …

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The Centuries of Sound Listening List

Centuries of Sound is going slightly open source as of today. Here is a google sheet which contains my planned listening for each year. And I’m inviting you to come and add to it. Data is taken from a number of sources including rateyourmusic and acclaimed music Should go artist – title – type – …

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Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 12 (1904)

Time: 8pm BST, Saturday 20th July 2019 Place: Cambridge 105fm James Errington takes you on another journey back into the forgotten history of recorded sound, this time joined by Liam Higgins, playing cylinders and shellac all from the year 1904. Aside from the usual brass band, banjo and proto-ragtime and barbershop music, you can listen …

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Blueprint for Armageddon

If you’re looking for coverage of the First World War in podcast form then the obvious first stopping point is the Blueprint For Armageddon series of Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History podcast, and since I’ve listened to the whole thing, twice, I should really write something about it here. But what exactly? Was it good? Well, …

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BBC Voices of The First World War

Often it seems that the past is artificially kept as a distant country. Concerns over accessibility, commercial interests and worries about keeping things “relevant” and “relatable” mean that primary sources are relegated to secondary concerns. So it was wonderful to listen to this series on BBC Radio 4 which used archive interviews to explore the …

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Elsewhere in 1915

The Centuries of Sound episode for 1915 is now up for Patreon subscribers – get early access and my radio podcast where I discuss the music at https://www.patreon.com/centuriesofsound January 1 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Formidable is sunk off Lyme Regis, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew. January …

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