Paul Wilson, Curator Radio Broadcast writes: This week’s selection celebrates World Radio Day 2018 (13th February) and is an example of the art of radio at its best: blending creativity with actuality to illuminate aspects of our life and times and, in this instance, one of the moral dilemmas of… read more
Paul Wilson, Curator Radio Broadcast writes: This week’s selection celebrates World Radio Day 2018 (13th February). It’s an excerpt from the Listening Project Symphony, a beautiful composition by Gary Carpenter for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra which was first broadcast live from Manchester in December 2012. The piece incorporates extracts from… read more
PhD placement students, Andrew Booth and Rowan Campbell, write: In the second episode of Linguistics at the Library, Andrew and Rowan discuss some of the differences between regional accents and ‘RP’ (Received Pronunciation), and why people might feel that they have to change the way they speak to work in… read more
This week’s selection comes from Isobel Clouter, Curator of World & Traditional Music. Here is an intimate recording made by one of our long time field recordists John Brearley. Travelling with his own violin to encourage a two-way flow of ideas, as suggested by anthropologist Alan Barnard, John Brearley sought… read more
PhD placement student Andrew Booth writes: At the Evolving English exhibition at the British Library (2010-11), we asked visitors to submit recordings of their voices in specially designed telephone booths. Around 15,000 speakers took part, and the outcome is the Evolving English VoiceBank and WordBank – a collection of accents… read more