16-part series which explores how everyday life changed during the 20th Century, described by the people of Essex, in collaboration with the British Library.
Produced and first broadcast September-December 1999. Researcher: Elaine Tribley.
'A Sense of Place' series here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/a-sense-of-place

CENTURY SPEAKS Social History (BBC documentary series)

A series which explores people's feelings of belonging and affinity with places explored through locations, groups, faith, sport, the coast and community symbols. Produced for BBC Essex. Broadcast in 2002.
'The Century Speaks' social history series here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/the-century-speaks

A SENSE OF PLACE Belonging & Community (BBC documentary series)

Verses to make your heart flutter or make you wistful.
Poems about family here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/family

LOVE

Recorded to mark the 50th anniversary of VJ Day in 1995. Accounts of soldiers, a nurse, prisoners of war, CND campaigners of the Allies campaign in the Far East. 15 August is the official VJ Day for the United Kingdom, while the official US commemoration is 2 September.
More audio features here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/islands-of-essex

WW2: Victory over Japan

Verses with sensory words and thoughts.
Poems of reflection here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/reflections-on-life

MINDFULNESS

What you need to know about the poetic form.
More poems about form and technique here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/styles-techniques

Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

Multi-cultural acceptance and celebration.
More multi-cultural perspectives here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/multi-cultural-experience

Human Family by Maya Angelou

A poem of reflective poignancy.
More poems of love here: soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/love-relationships?si=467790c738c340839ea0df365a8302e9

If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda

Beautiful winter imagery.
More snow poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/snow

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

The challenges of sharing a life together.
Poems of love here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/love-relationships

Together, Apart by Anthony Thwaite

The Welsh poet’s powerful facing of death.
More poems of remembrance here: soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/remembrance?si=08042c89538c4e7da85a2bef23401218

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas

A fun and witty promotion of reading and critique of TV / screens.
Part of this playlist: soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/young-poems?si=2aabfaffd905487ea05cd42d27624139

Television by Roald Dahl

A beautiful utopian dream.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats

The journey of the post by train from England to Scotland.
More Auden poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden

Night Mail by W.H. Auden

A beautiful depiction of an adoring couple.
More poems of love here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/love-relationships

I Held You In The Square by Ben Okri

For green-fingered folk.
More natural world poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/natural-landscapes

The Glory of the Garden by Rudyard Kipling

To add marmalade or not, that is the question.
Part of this playlist: soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/young-poems?si=2aabfaffd905487ea05cd42d27624139

The King's Breakfast by A.A. Milne

The American poet who hates capital letters!
More poems of love here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/love-relationships

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in) by e.e. cummings

Wise words from the ancient Persian poet on visitors.
More poems of reflection here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/reflections-on-life

The Guest House by Jalal Al - Din Rumi

Classic famous poem from the prose writing: Meditation 17, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions with often quoted last line.
More thoughtful poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/reflections-on-life

No Man is an Island by John Donne

Auden's reflection on time and the human experience.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

If I Could Tell You by W.H. Auden

From I Corinthians 13 wisdom on love.
Another biblical verse here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/to-every-thing-there-is-a-season-ecclesiastes-iii

Love Is... (Corinthians)

When life has tired you too much, there is hope.
Mindfulness poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/mindfulness

For One Who Is Exhausted by John O'Donohue

Close observation of birds of prey.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes

POET PLAYLISTS:
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/mary-oliver
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/sylvia-plath
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

Mirror by Sylvia Plath

One of Poe's most loved poems.
More poems of love here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/love-relationships

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

More poems of remembrance here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/remembrance

Death is Nothing at all by Henry Scott Holland

More poems of reflection here: soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/reflections-on-life

Love after Love by Derek Walcott

More positive poems of calm and comfort here: soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/mindfulness

To Laugh Often and Much by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Oak by Alfred Lord Tennyson

More poems about natural landscapes here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/natural-landscapes

Every by Wendy Cope

Another political poem (about the UK) here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/how-much-i-dislike-the-daily-mail-by-brian-bilston

Pity the Nation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Punctuation by James Nash

More e.e. cummings poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings

Love is a Place by e.e. cummings

Child of our Time by Rosemary Dobson

Piltdown Man by Rosemary Dobson

AJ Try Anything Once (BBC Essex) jingle

AJ Try Anything Once Almost (BBC Essex) jingle

A compilation programme of the 'I'll Try Anything Once' feature on the Anton Jarvis Weekend Breakfast Show.
Broadcast on BBC Essex 5.04.1996

He'll Try Anything Once (BBC Essex) 5.04.1996

Anton Jarvis with Weekend Breakfast (BBC Essex) jingle

John's Journey Back in Time (BBC Essex) trail 2001

BBC Essex Steve Scruton Show 00s jingle

BBC Essex FM frequencies female jingle

BBC Essex Station Opener AJ 1996

Struggling, surviving and triumphing as a woman of colour.
Poems of reflection here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/reflections-on-life

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

Essex people talk about how healthcare changed dramatically during the 20th Century. They describe personal experiences of deadly diseases like scarlet fever, diptheria, polio and TB. We hear how the job of a GP and nurse has changed radically and there are accounts of hospital developments and medical advances compared with the past. 
Essex people also speak about how death and funerals were different in times past and how attitudes have changed.

Original title: Life and Death.

More programmes in the series here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/the-century-speaks

CENTURY SPEAKS 14 Birth/Death (social history)

Essex people talk about positive and negative aspects of old age. They describe the experience of alzheimer's disease and express views on euthanasia. Contributors share their energy and enjoyment of retirement and the twilight years, and also speak about grandparents.

Original title: Getting Older

More programmes in the series here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/the-century-speaks

CENTURY SPEAKS 8 Old Age (social history)

The waters off the Essex coast seen from the perspective of the fishing communities of West Mersea and Leigh-on-Sea.
With music composed and performed by Chris Jones.
Broadcast on BBC Essex and BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
Another documentary about belonging here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/the-century-speaks-4-belonging
Part of this series: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/a-sense-of-place

A Sense of Place: Fish Out Of Water

Prisoners inside Chelmsford Prison reflect on their situation and environment - the psychology of being trapped behind bars.
This documentary won a Sony UK Radio Academy award.
Another documentary about belonging here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/the-century-speaks-4-belonging
Part of this series: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/a-sense-of-place

A SENSE OF PLACE

A Sense of Place: At Her Majesty's Pleasure

Homelessness on the streets of Colchester.
Featuring music composed and performed by Chris Jones.
Another documentary about belonging here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/the-century-speaks-4-belonging
Part of this series: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/a-sense-of-place

A Sense of Place: Outcasts

A moving tribute to a lost partner / lover.
More poems of remembrance here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/remembrance

Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden

Essex people talk about the effect of changes in technology on their home and working lives.
There are examples from the shop floor at Marconi, the Ford car assembly line and the printing and publishing industries. Contributors describe their offices from the strict regime of the 1950s typing pool to the first huge computers.
People also speak about the introduction of home computing, video recorders and automated telephone answering.
More programmes in the series here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/the-century-speaks

CENTURY SPEAKS 9 Technology/Industry (social history)

Essex people talk about their religious beliefs and fears through personal experiences. We hear from those who are true believers, as well as sceptics and non-believers. Changes in the forms of worship are discussed, and the increase in spirituality and new world religions.

Original title: A Question of Faith.

More programmes in the series here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/the-century-speaks

CENTURY SPEAKS 15 Religion/Spiritual (social history)

Essex people speaking in 1998 predict how life might be in the future. At the end of the 20th Century they talk about new inventions, space exploration, changes to the world order and communication. Also grandparents have words of wisdom for their grandchildren.

Original title: Visions of the Future.

More programmes in the series here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/the-century-speaks

CENTURY SPEAKS 16 Future (social history)

Kipling’s wise advice on becoming a man.
GCSE POETRY PLAYLISTS:
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-aqa-power_conflict
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/aqa-gcse-love-relationships
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-aqa-worlds-lives
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-edexcel-conflict
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/edexcel-time-and-place
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-edexcel-relationships
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-edexcel-belonging
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/international-gcse-edexcel
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/int-gcse-language-poetry-prose
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-unseen-wjec-eduqas
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-unseen-ocr
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-unseen-ccea

If by Rudyard Kipling

A classic grotesque reworking. Great fun for kids.
Another 'Revolting Rhyme' here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/yp-jack-and-the-beanstalk-from-revolting-rhymes-by-roald-dahl

The Three Little Pigs from 'Revolting Rhymes' by Roald Dahl

Wise words of mindfulness.
More reflective poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/reflections-on-life

Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

Greyhound owners, bookmakers, punters and staff at Romford Stadium describe their connection with this sporting venue on race days/nights.
Another documentary about belonging here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/the-century-speaks-4-belonging
Part of this series: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/a-sense-of-place

A Sense of Place: Going To The Dogs

Two Essex communities called Debden, one in the south west of the county near Loughton and the other in the north west near Newport. We visit the East 15 Acting School and Debden's village shop and post office.
Another documentary about belonging here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/the-century-speaks-4-belonging
Part of this series: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/a-sense-of-place

A Sense of Place: A Tale Of Two Debdens

Former prisoners of war, captured by the Japanese in the Second World War remember their experiences.
Recorded in 1995 for BBC Essex.
Social history of 20th Century series here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/the-century-speaks

VJ 4 Japanese POWs

Views about the bombing of Japan which led to the end of the Second World War.
Recorded in 1995 for BBC Essex.
Social history of 20th Century series here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/the-century-speaks

VJ 3 Atomic Bomb

Memories of the war in the Far East, including Japan.
Recorded in 1995 for BBC Essex.
Social history of 20th Century series here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/the-century-speaks

VJ 6 Stories A

A war-time meeting in India which led to marriage.
Recorded in 1995 for BBC Essex.
Social history of 20th Century series here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/the-century-speaks

VJ 5 Wedding

Soldiers who fought in the Far East in the Second World War remember their experiences.
Recorded in 1995 for BBC Essex.
Social history of 20th Century series here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/the-century-speaks

VJ 2 End Of War In Far East

Turn On Your Light by Ben Okri

The bard at his best.
More Shakespeare here: 
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

More poems of love here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/love-relationships

I Wish I Could Remember That First Day by Christina Rossetti

The thrilling tale of a black bird whose appearance is a portent.
More classic poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/classics

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Eliot at his most imaginative and thoughtful.
Another powerful poem here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/the-garden-by-ezra-pound

The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot

Ex-BBC Broadcaster readings of poetry & stories + archive radio/audio features. PLEASE SHARE LINKS with others. 
I’m a self-confessed sound, speech and language nerd.

Anton Jarvis

Pinned to spotlight

Popular tracks