This week’s selection comes from Cheryl Tipp, Curator of Wildlife and Environmental Sounds. On 24th May 1930, a worn and weathered de Havilland Gipsy Moth named Jason crashlanded into the dusty red soil of Australia’s Northern Territory. On board was the English aviator Amy Johnson who had just made history… read more
This week’s selection comes from Jonathan Summers, Curator of Classical Music Recordings. Jacob Collier has been creating a stir in the musical world recently, winning two Grammys in February at the age of twenty-two. His grandfather Derek made his first broadcasts for the BBC at the same age, in 1949…. read more
This week’s selection comes from Andrea Zarza, Curator of World and Traditional Music. Ethnomusicologist Bryony Harris (née Pearson) spent 2002 doing field work in Uganda to record the drumming styles of the Busoga and Buganda as part of research for her dissertation "Towards a notation for African dance drumming, focusing… read more
This week’s selection comes from Richard Ranft, Head of Sound and Vision. Between February to June on southern and south-eastern English heathlands you may be lucky enough to hear a Woodlark singing. The bird emits a cascade of sweet liquid warbles, often in a large circular display flight some 50-100… read more
This week’s selection comes from Jonnie Robinson, Lead Curator of Spoken English. The Evolving English: WordBank is extremely positive evidence of the robust nature of our native dialects, as demonstrated by this speaker’s use of the verb puggle [= ‘to prod, poke about in e.g. a hole to clear obstruction’]…. read more