Nine protests, three strikes and one vigil London, Cambridge & Glasgow November 2022 to September 2024 Please listen to this soundscape on headphones Lecturer strike meeting outside UCL, 15th November 2022 Lecturer strike meeting outside Birkbeck, UoL, 24th November 2022 Protest in Gower St, Bloomsbury, 30th November 2022 Unidentified protest from a distance, London, 16th …
In 2006 I moved to a small city in China called Zhuhai, home to a small expat community of perhaps a hundred or so. One of the first thing I heard was the story of an English teacher called John Wieja from the USA who had been rushed across the border to Macau to …
An interview with my father, Mark Errington, about the life of his father, Walter Errington, 1921-1992
At Centuries of Sound I am making mixes for every year of recorded sound. As it’s the festive season I’ve decided to use the new function on Patreon to do a couple of membership offers. Firstly I’m offering a 10% discount on all tiers, monthly and annual, just go to patreon.com/centuriesofsound and sign up with the …
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Dear Centuries of Sound follower, Thank you for following Centuries of Sound through the years. As it’s the festive season I’ve decided to use the new function on Patreon to do a couple of membership offers. Firstly I’m offering a 10% Discount all tiers, monthly and annual, just go here: https://www.patreon.com/centuriesofsound/ …and sign up with …
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 …
Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio Special — Medieval Music Read More »
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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