I’ve always been one of those terribly annoying
people that answers the what music do you
like? question with oh I like lots of
things and really enjoy listening to a big range of bands and artists. What
a hopeless case. But it’s true! I’d happily go and see Mozart’s The Magic Flute opera with mother on a
Monday, accompany the BFF to The Scissor
Sisters on a Tuesday, coo over Marina
+ the Diamonds with daddy dearest on a Wednesday, bop away to a Seth Troxler set on a Thursday… you get
it. Also, playlists are my fave thing. Perhaps because they somewhat enable me to fulfill
my control freak nature of organisation, but I’d like to say that it's more because then I can
freely compose a biiig mixture of musica!
Recently though, I’ve been venturing more and
more into the world of the Podcast. I went through a definite The Best of the Chris Moyles Show
[Enhanched] phase when I was about 14, but since then my iPod hasn’t really
made full use of it’s FREE Podcast capabilities!
Thankfully this has all changed. Allow me to
make some (slightly geeky and lit-graduate-esque) podcast suggestions… I listen
to these for the purposes of ‘entertainment’ but also to a certain degree some
form of self education and cultural development. Paha.
The Bookslam Podcast – a combination of
literature, slam poetry and live music, this is literature but in bitesize, fun
and approachable chunks. A personal favourite extract of mine is the poem about
British motorway service stations!
The Literary Salon – Damian Barr’s Shoreditch
House Literary salon... I get some crackin’ reading suggestions from this. Plus
it’s always nice to know what’s actually going through an author’s head!
The Wired.co.uk Podcast – this satisfies the
little tech nerd in me I guess. It also teaches me just about enough about the
world of technology, so that when once again the office is discussing ‘the rise
of google’, the latest apps or simply ANOTHER Facebook threat to our privacy, I
can nod and contribute.
BBC R4’s Book Club (yes, really..) – I’ve
always been more of a Radio 1 kinda gal, but this Book Club podcast is a real
sweetie. Especially those recordings from the 1990s…JK Rowling discussing the
release of her ‘unknown fourth Harry Potter’..!!
Short radio play with Alan Bennett & Judi Dench – a one-off podcast recording. Pure genius.
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