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The Talking Machine

Since Emile Berliner invented the gramophone in 1894, a colossal amount of creativity has been set to record. The Talking Machine celebrates over a hundred years of recorded music; anything from anytime in anyway will be played as long as it fits within the topic. It could be What gives you the chills? How do you play a gig in a war zone? Or how a grandfather clock influenced generations of football chants? The Talking Machine hopes to find the answers.

Episodes

The Entire History Of Music (Kind Of)

How a cow invented music. A dumb indulgence that serves no purpose and is probably harmful. Paul has been challenged to explain the entire history of music in one hour, but only plays three songs. Someone's going to feel left out.

Aug 08, 20221 hrTranscript available on Metacast

Dead Cities

Paul steps beyond the veil to explore the eerie other-world that haunts our cities and daily lives

Aug 08, 202259 minTranscript available on Metacast

Dusty Grooves

Paul recalls his experiences as a '2nd Lifer' in the world of used vinyl buyers. Where he didn’t meet Eva

Aug 08, 20221 hrTranscript available on Metacast

The lion, Lamb and Hare

Ghosts lurking in the fens, alien abduction, the Jazz loving mad axe man and baseballs vasectomy season. Join Paul and the Talking Machine for The lion, Lamb and Hare as he delves in the month of March

Aug 08, 20221 hrTranscript available on Metacast

Retired Songs

Music history has accumulated a massive collection of classic tracks for broadcasters to pick from. But with so many great songs, its getting more and more difficult for new music break through. Is it time that we retired some of histories greatest music in order to make room for the new classics

Aug 08, 20221 hrTranscript available on Metacast

Moor Music Part 2

Second of a two-part programme in which Paul explores Dartmoor National Park Wild, open moorlands and deep river valleys, with a rich history and rare wildlife, Dartmoor is a unique place

Aug 07, 20221 hrTranscript available on Metacast

Moor Music Part 1

First of a two-part programme in which Paul explores Dartmoor National Park Wild, open moorlands and deep river valleys, with a rich history and rare wildlife, Dartmoor is a unique place

Aug 07, 20221 hrTranscript available on Metacast

The Final Frontier

There can be little doubt that civilizations more advanced than the earth's exist elsewhere in the universe. The probabilities involved in locating one of them are coming closer than ever before.

Aug 07, 20221 hrTranscript available on Metacast

The Magic Bus

The friends who drove a bus behind the Iron Curtain. In the summer of 1968, a group of students adapted a double-decker bus and took it on a journey to Eastern Europe. Sponsored by two Scotch whisky-makers, they encountered Soviet tanks, a Romanian beer shortage and a perilous Yugoslavian mountain pass.

Aug 07, 202259 minTranscript available on Metacast

100 Not Out

London’s iconic 100 Club has been trading under the same name since 1964 and has put on live music since 1942 as the Feldman Jazz Club amongst other names, earning it the title of the oldest independent venue world wide.

Aug 07, 20221 hrTranscript available on Metacast

The Story of Ona Judge

The Remarkable Story of  Ona Judge On May 21, 1796, Ona “Oney” Judge fled her enslavement to Pres. George Washington and remained free for the rest of her life,. The Talking Machine provides an account of her dramatic quest for freedom that represents a rare moment when the story of a (formerly) enslaved person is told

Aug 07, 202259 minTranscript available on Metacast

The Tiger in my Family

This month, The Talking Machine honours the bravery of all those who served, died and were affected by the First World War. As well as remembering one forgotten soldier, Herbert Ayriss... Paul has been researching his family tree which has led him to find some remarkable stories about his ancestors. On the Thiepval Memorial he found 'H Ayriss'.... . Just an initial and surname on a memorial that is dedicated to soldiers that have no known grave. Paul embarked on a long journey of research to fin...

Nov 25, 20181 hr 1 minTranscript available on Metacast

Word of Mouth

True or False? It doesn't matter where in the UK a singer is from or how they sound when they speak, when the song begins the regional accent usually ends. Whilst British music has more than held its own on the world stage over the last fifty years or so, you have to admit that the range and breadth of British regional accents isn’t always represented in people’s singing voices. Adele, Cheryl Cole, Jamelia, Mick Jagger, Ozzy Osbourne, all of whom have distinctly regional accents but adopt an Ame...

Oct 17, 20181 hrTranscript available on Metacast

Shall We Sing a Song for You

What do Grandfather clocks, patriotic songs of America and Old Testament have in common with British football? What are the songs behind the terrace standards like ‘you’re not singing anymore' and 'here we go here we go here we go', and what is the oldest football song in world? Paul and The Talking Machine explores the music behind the last modern-day oral traditions and dips into the deep reservoir of Folk poetry to find the origins of over 100 years of terrace song.

Sep 15, 201858 minTranscript available on Metacast