This week’s selection comes from Stephen Cleary, Lead Curator of Literary & Creative Recordings. In this recording, poet and reggae artist Linton Kwesi Johnson gives a lecture on the late Jamaican performance poet Mikey Smith (1954-1983), author of ‘Me Cyaan Believe It’. The talk is based on his personal knowledge… read more
This week’s selection comes from Cheryl Tipp, Curator of Wildlife and Environmental Sounds There’s nothing quite like the sound of walking through freshly fallen snow. This particular recording was made in the Kentish village of Knockholt, just after midnight on the 3rd February 2009. This signalled the start of a… read more
The Evolving English VoiceBank is an audio archive of approximately 15,000 voices created by visitors to the Library’s Evolving English exhibition in 2010/11. This collection is only partly catalogued and a new placement opportunity at the British Library offers a PhD student the chance to work on this unique and… read more
This week’s selection comes from Niamh Dillon, National Life Stories Project Interviewer. Rosamund Grant was born in Guyana and moved to London as a young woman in the 1960s. Here she discusses challenging European stereotypes of Caribbean food and how she defines herself through her cooking. Rosamund Grant_Not just Caribbean… read more