Time: 6pm BST, Sunday 28th April 2024 Place: Cambridge 105 Radio This time James is joined by Dr Edward Wickham, Chair of Cambridge Early Music, to discuss the music of medieval Europe, and what we can know about the sounds of this age before modern music notation. You could have listened to the show on …
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Hi Centuries of Sound email subscribers. This is just a note to say that with the breakdown in social media (Twitter/X seems to be on its way out, I have lost access to the Centuries of Sound Facebook page, Instagram won’t share links, comments on the website are broken, etc.) I thought it would be …
In this first of a series of special editions of the Centuries of Sound Radiopod, I’m joined by Simon O’Dwyer of Ancient Music Ireland to talk about music from a time before we had recordings, or even music notation, and hear some reconstructed prehistoric music from his own collection and others. Simon and Maria’s website …
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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Good morning, you’re through to James in Customer Services. Can I confirm I’m speaking to the principal cardholder? I always hated talking on the phone. Hated it. Hated suddenly shifting a gear to be thrust into a conversation, with no mental preparation at all. Hated the way I couldn’t sit back and let other people …
Another year is at an end, unfortunately it has been quite an unproductive one for Centuries of Sound as I seem to have become bogged down in the Second World War – in case you were wondering, I consider the main culprit to be the hundreds of hours of original radio recordings which I downloaded …
