{"id":2520,"date":"2009-03-27T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T12:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2009\/03\/what_ive_been_l\/"},"modified":"2009-03-27T12:17:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T12:17:20","slug":"what_ive_been_l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/what_ive_been_l\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’ve Been Listening To This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Third Reich & Roll<\/strong><\/a> is a cracking three part documentary from Radio 2.
\nStephen Fry narrates this story about how Nazi technology helped develop tape recording technology, and then the post-war development of multi-track technologies and stereo.
\nPart 2 is available until Monday and details what kind of technologies various classic albums used, from the fact that The Beatles were limited to no more than eight tracks – sometimes using two four-track devices in parrallel to achieve this – to the incredible tape layering required by Queen to achieve Bohemian Rhapsody.
\nI suspect that this Monday’s final episode will get into the digital realm where tracks are now limitless.
\nThanks to Speechification<\/a> for the heads-up.
\nDavid Mitchell’s The Unbelievable Truth<\/strong><\/a> is back for a third series this week. Not to be confused with the not-at-all-the-same yet not-all-that-different-either Would I Lie To You on TV, it’s another Monday night comedy panel game.
\nFrom a few weeks ago, the Radio 4 book of the week was The Decisive Moment<\/strong><\/a>. This shouldn’t really still be available on the iPlayer, but epsiode 3 is strangely still there. Anyway, it’s quite an interesting listen, and no doubt a good read<\/a>. That said, I thought that it jumped around a little bit, and I’m always a tad suspicious of the science in books like this. It always feels like someone has tried to retro-actively fit a bit of science around an otherwise interesting story. That might be the serviceman who decided that a radar blip was a missile rather than friendly plane, or the fireman who came up with a life-saving wildfire survival technique in a moment which was otherwise counter-intuitive.
\nAnd our very own Frank Skinner podcast<\/strong><\/a> is doing quite nicely in the suspicious iTunes podcast charts (Suspicious because it’s never entirely clear how they’re generated).
\nStill to listen to: William Boyd on Raymond Chandler on this week’s Open Book<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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