In the week that we lost another of the great communicators, here are a couple of reflections on radio, neither quoted with permission but both worth passing on.....
First, here's Will Buckley writing about the BBC's Test Match Special in the Dec 3rd Observer:
"New technologies may abound, but often they merely serve to demonstrate the virtues of the old supposed dinosaurs. Cricket is made for radio. A brisk listing of the field and the play is set. The action assists rather than hinders conversation. The background hubbub allows you to easily imagine you're in a faraway continent. It is all wonderfully evocative and strongly nostalgic ...... a cocooned and magical place."
And here's a passage from Nick Hornby's bestseller "A Long Way Down". Maureen, a single mum with a disabled child, is hearing Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left for the first time:
"This is how I feel every day, and people don't want to know that. They want to know that I'm feeling what Tom Jones makes you feel. Or that Australian girl who used to be in Neighbours. But I feel like this and they won't play what I feel on the radio, because people that are sad don't fit in."
Not 'arf.
