One part of this project which has surprised me in its scope is “books about years” – this has become something of an obsession, and having started, I’ve been working my way up to having a shelf full of them, which means I also need to read the things. So far the entries in the …
Florian Illies – 1913: The Year Before the Storm Read More »
A blog post about our trip to an awards ceremony yesterday. If this is not of interest, please check almost every other page on the site for much less self-indulgent content. Yesterday I went along with V (my long-suffering non-podcasting other half) to The British Podcast Awards in London. The show had been nominated for …
January 16 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, a 26-year-old student in Madras, India, sends a letter to English mathematician G. H. Hardy, which would lead to him becoming one of the most important mathematician in history. January 23 – Ottoman Empire Navy Minister Nazim is assassinated, and Prime Minister Kamil overthrown in a coup in Turkey February …
MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) “How can we regard this invasion of vulgarity in music other than as a national calamity, in so far as the mental attainments of the nation are concerned? This cheap, trashy stuff could not elevate even the most degraded minds, nor could it possibly urge …
Jean Metzinger – Danseuse au café Giacomo Balla – The Hand of the Violinist (The Rhythms of the Bow) FrantiÅ¡ek Kupka – Katedrála Henri Matisse – The Conversation Vilhelm Hammershøi – Interior with an Easel Robert Delaunay — Simultaneous Windows on the City Kazimir Malevich – The Knifegrinder Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Nollendorfplatz Pablo Picasso …
 The Cameraman’s Revenge In Nacht und Eis The Conquest of the Pole Richard III Cleopatra How a Mosquito Operates The Passer-By Onesime, Clock-maker The Female Of The Species A Dash Through The Clouds Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Beautiful Leukanida The Musketeers of Pig Alley The Water Nymph Making An American Citizen The …
James and Sean take you on a journey back to the year 1901 to listen to original, unmediated, often completely unacceptable recordings from the early days of the gramophone. This time we have rousing sort-of proto-proto-proto-jazz, stunning vocal acrobatics from a Russian soprano, vaudeville comedy which may or may not have stood the test of …
Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 9 (1901) Read More »
In my day job I sometimes take groups of kids to this place, the Scott Polar Museum in Cambridge. Before we go on trips there we do an activity which involves making a list of what you would take with you on a trip to the Antarctic. This is an odd task to give them, …
MP3 direct download | Itunes | YouTube | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) Sound is the name we give to certain frequencies of fluctuating pressure waves which resonate the human eardrum and are able to be perceived by the human brain. Waves fitting this description have existed since the big bang, all of them dissipating forever …
Today is the 107th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The story of the “unsinkable” liner hitting the iceberg is so famous it hardly seems worth retelling for the umpteenth time, except perhaps for the producers of Entertainment Tonight, who reported on the sinking of the Costa Concordia with this headline So, here’s a …
