Radio Podcast #22 – 1914

James Errington takes you on another trip into the ancient history of recorded sound, this time joined by Cambridge native Liam Higgins to review the music scene on both sides of the Atlantic in 1914, the year the lights famously went out all over Europe. This episode includes for the first (and hopefully the last) …

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1.4 – The Timber’s Already A Boat

Espionage, purging, cultural revolution, matchmaking, heavy machinery, wild childhood, tragedy and rebirth along the banks of The Yangtze, 1940s-1988. Glossary guanxi = social network of mutually beneficial personal and business relationships liumang = an indecent person or hooligan, think early 20th century “sex maniac” zou zi pai = “capitalist roader” – a Maoist term of …

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