Posts Tagged ‘podcasts’
The Wonder of Radio
Being off work is wonderful. There is something sumptuous about laying in the bath at 4pm, listening to Woman’s Hour on iPlayer. I’m a recent convert to the programme and usually listen to the podcasts on my way to work in the mornings.
Yesterday, they were discussing Operation Pied Piper as it is the 70th anniversary of the evacuation of children at the outbreak of World War II. My father grew up in London at this time and my grandmother refused to allow him and his brothers to be sent to the countryside. I was chatting to a researcher about this recently and he told me that this was quite a common thing at the time. Two of the women on the radio spoke of their memories of being an evacuated child. They seemed to have been relatively happy, but there was an underlying sense of lack during that time, and I don’t think that was only because of the war.
And now it’s one of the Beautiful Evenings here. Sunny, if a bit blustery, the Gherkin gleams in the distance and the sun reaches across all the rooftops around as it falls into shadow on the streets. It’s still sunny over on Highgate Hill. The quality of light here is beautiful.
