What if your home had ears?
Mary Stewart introduces the new BL web resource If Homes Had Ears. Open your ears, draw back the curtains and peek into domestic life as you may never have heard it before. read more
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Recording of the week: We’re gonna be parents!
This week’s selection comes from Holly Gilbert, Cataloguer of Digital Multimedia Collections. Husband and wife, David and Mairead, are expecting a baby any minute now! Mairead is already in labour and they came across the Listening Project booth while … read more
Banned in South Africa: Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
It is hard to imagine a set of circumstances in which the possession of a vinyl record of a Christian minister would be illegal. But this did happen, and not so long ago. The year was 1966; the country was South Africa; and the speaker was Dr Martin Lu… read more
‘Using your eyes as a pen’ – Black British Poets in Performance
By Dr Hannah Silva, British writer and performer and Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. Paula Varjack selfie. “What you actually do is you use your eyes as a pen,” David J is telling me how he learned to freest… read more
Recording of the week: Discovering Sibelius
This week’s selection comes from Jonathan Summers, Curator of Classical Music Recordings. Working at home has allowed me to listen to a lot more music than I normally would. One advantage is the opportunity to get to know areas of classical music that … read more