This week’s selection comes from Jonnie Robinson, Lead Curator of Spoken English. It was great to see Peaky Blinders back for a fourth series as, among its many delights, it offers a rare glimpse in the mainstream media of Anglo-Romani. Given the presence of traveller communities across the UK it’s… read more
This week’s selection comes from Dr Eva del Rey, Curator of Drama and Literature Recordings and Digital Performance. American dancer and choreographer Trisha Brown talks to British choreographer Richard Alston at the ICA, London, 15 November 1991 (duration: 59 min 43 sec). At the time of the discussion there were… read more
This week’s selection comes from Dr Janet Topp Fargion, Lead Curator of World and Traditional Music. This song was recorded in 1991 by ethnomusicologist Lesley Larkum at the Green Hotel, Mek’ele (Mekelle) in the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia. It represents one of those wonderful moments of ethnographic fieldwork when… read more
This week’s selection comes from Stephen Cleary, Lead Curator of Literary & Creative Recordings. This seasonal offering comes from our African Writers Club collection and was recorded on 7 November 1966 in London on a Revox F36 tape machine. ‘No Room at Solitaire’ is a dramatization by Cosmo Pieterse of… read more
This week’s selection comes from Richard Ranft, Head of Sound and Vision. Around this time of year as winter takes it hold, and into spring that follows, a daytime walk around one of Britain’s more remote coastal estuaries and mudflats, or over inland moorlands and heathlands will likely bring about… read more