A friend of mine sent me this article from the Wall Street Journal that discusses how radio lost out so quickly to television. Here's one paragraph: Americans of all ages embraced TV unhesitatingly. They felt no loyalty to network radio, the medium that had entertained and informed them for a quarter-century. When something came along that they deemed superior, they switched off their radios without a second thought. That's the biggest lesson taught by the new-media crisis of 1949. Nostalgia, like guilt, is a rope that wears thin. An hour after I read that, I got my weekly e-mail from BBC Radio 4. Here are the highlights from their schedule for next week: Friday 28 August David Attenborough’s Life Stories, 8.50-9.00pm, repeated Sunday 8.50-9.00am David Attenborough talks about the Coelacanth, an ancestor to all back-boned animals. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ programmes/b00m74rt Saturday 29 August Bryn Terfel Masters Wine 10.30-11.00am Bryn Terfel takes a break from the operatic sta
Striking down the mundane and dastardly while retaining a certain obscure turn of phrase, denoting something elusive yet concrete.