Even in these ignorant Brexit anti-Semitic times the BBC
continues to deliver quality. So much good stuff, from In Our Time to Late Junction.
Anyone hear Ramon Goose and Modou Toure on Lopa
Kathari last week? I have found a nice piece of Intelligent Radio on BBC6
Music called Paperback Writers; today
it was Emma Freud who wrote a novel called Hideous Kinky, which I haven’t read,
just talking intelligently about her writing and her life and music [fourteen
tracks] that have some meaning for her. No interview, it isn’t another version
of Desert Island Discs, isn’t Human Interest, just her talking. Are
novelists any more intelligent or introspective than say, round-the-world-yachtsmen
or Coronation Street actresses? I don’t know this woman at all, other than that
she is the daughter of Lucien, granddaughter of Sigmund, I just wanted to make
mention of the fact that someone at the BBC is commissioning intelligent
programming. For what it’s worth, these are the tracks she chose: David
Bowie/Changes: Bob Dylan/It Ain’t Me Babe: Lotte Lenya/Surabaya Johnny: The
Clash/Police and Thieves: The Pretenders/Cash in Pocket: Nina Simone/Love Me or
Leave Me: Otis Redding/Try a Little Tenderness: K D Lang/Outside Myself: Elvis
Presley/Blue Suede Shoes: Ella Fitzgerald/Always True to you: Carole King/You’ve
Got a Friend: Duffy/Warwick Avenue and finally, Jeff Buckley/Hallelujah.
Tomorrow it’s someone called Jake Arnott.
I am not saying it is a must-listen thing; it is someone
reasonably bright, reasonably articulate talking and contextualising for an
hour. The means appear minimal yet the results are quietly wonderful. That’s
all.
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