"Nightingales and Bombers" Topic
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| Midpoint | 28 Jan 2012 3:37 a.m. PST |
Rather eclectic one this. link Audio recording – and I pinch the text from the link: Beatrice Harrison (above) played the cello in her garden in Foyle Riding, Surrey, regularly accompanied by nightingales. The BBC transmitted the music of Beatrice and the birds live on May 19th, 1924 – the first ever live outdoor broadcast.
Each May 19th, the BBC returned to the garden to broadcast the nightingales, even after Beatrice moved house in 1936. On May 19th, 1942, as BBC engineers were recording the bird-song prior to transmission, a faint hum gradually became audible, slowly increasing in volume, as 197 bombers flew overhead on their way to raids in Mannheim. Realising the security risk, the broadcast was halted.
But not the recording… |
Dave Jackson  | 28 Jan 2012 1:11 p.m. PST |
Yea, heard this more than 30-35 years ago, late at night while listening to the radio in bed. Wonderful, have not heard it since, really left an impression on me. |
| overlord awc | 28 Jan 2012 5:09 p.m. PST |
Coincidentally, this was a choice of Vikram Seth on Radio 4s Desert Island Discs this week. Still available on the iPlayer: link |
| Chouan | 02 Feb 2012 6:27 a.m. PST |
I heard it on a Sunday night on Alan Titchmarsh's old programme a couple of years ago. I found it wonderful and disturbing, at the same time. |
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