Mega-series on Radio 4 - A History of Private Life - a sweeping history of about three hundred years of the normal people at home, stuffed with music and recollections from people like us. It comes on just before my drive home so it is recorded and replayed later in the evening when the house is quiet and seems to suit the rather calming atmosphere. Listen again here.
Daughter is doing her homework at the moment so the only sound in the house is this typing and the rather gusty wind outside. Wife and son are at a party so imagine the noise there. Of to see Creation at FACT this afternoon. Not sure that private life gets any better than this. Work is not so bad either.
BBC 4 has been stuffed with many programmes about death and dying and Richard Wilson's doc about same (inevtitably called "Two Feet in the Grave") was excellent, pitched just right between the normal maudlin take on the subject and a clinical investigation in to the mechanics. In one section he showed photographs of recently-dead people returned in replies to an advert he placed in the paper. It was sad to see that this advert prompted The (Sunday?) Times to condemn the BBC in a bit of shock jornalism. In actual fact, the show was measured and interesting, something you couldn't really say about newspapers thes days.
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