Speechification Vol.007

If you’ve missed the first six volumes of Speechification, further context can be found elsewhere, specifically: here for Volume 001 (you have to start somewhere), here for Volume 002 (adventures in sound), here for Volume 003 (the Cold War), here for Volume 004 (the flatlands), here for Volume 005 (Mr Richard Dawson), and here for Volume 006 (Mr Chris Watson) I do love the radio. And Don’t Hang Up, “a BBC radio series about the possibilities of truly random encounters by ringing public phone boxes, and recording conversations with whoever picked up”, is a series of radio programmes that I love more than most. I think I was first introduced to the programme by the people at Speechification, a radio blog that is sadly long defunct (and which, in turn, inspired the blogposts noted above). Put together by oral historian Alan Dein and radio producer Mark Burman, Don’t Hang Up features “remarkable snapshots of ordinary people who just happened to be in the right place at the right time”,…

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