Child of our Time by Rosemary Dobson

Piltdown Man by Rosemary Dobson

Drummer Hodge by Thomas Hardy

I Shall Return by Claude McKay

Decomposition by Zulfikar Ghose

Origin Story by Eve L Ewing

AJ Ice Skating in Chelmsford (BBC Essex) 1996

AJ Skiing in Scotland (BBC Essex) 1996

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 experiences of food and drink in the 20th century. The flavour of a changing diet is described from the same pattern of meals every week and the grocer selling foodstuffs loose, to the huge variation of the modern supermarket.
There is also a taste of the impact of rationing during and after the Second World War and how farming methods have changed is discussed.
The programme also features the increased choice of places to eat out, with the introduction of Chinese, Indian and other cuisine.

Original title: A Square Meal.
More programmes in the series here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/the-century-speaks

CENTURY SPEAKS 10 Food & Drink (social history)

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.

AJ Skiing in Scotland (BBC Essex) 1996

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