This is just a hat tip for one of the most enjoyable and evocative programmes that I've heard in a very long time. It's a documentary about the way that some sounds have entered our collective conciousness - things like the chuffing of a steam train, the clatter of an old cash register and the clink of milk bottles, even though we may not have heard them for many years. Other things like the experience of listening to music on vinyl where the experience includes the end of each side and familiar scratches, or of recording music from the tv with your mum chattering in the background, or of the way that theme tunes have become associated with particular sports.
A particular delight is the way that certain bits of comedy have become a shared experience, and the programme includes clips from Fawlty Towers ("We're out of Waldorfs"), Tony Hancock, John Shuttleworth and the whole of Peter Sellars classic 'Balham - Gateway to the South'. The presenter Julian Baggini is slightly rueful of the fact that our digital society with individual music and video on demand, will not give us the same memories as a family sitting down to watch one of three channels on a single tv, but perhaps things like viral videos will replace them?
Anyway, I urge you to visit Speechification and download the programme now.
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