Dennis Hollingsworth

In Our Time

I'm having a great time with Podcasting, listening to various programs while I work in the studio. Especially, the BBC program "In Our Time", my three recent downloads:

-Beauty
-The Terror
-Marx

It's like sitting in on a university lecture (I loved those years so). The downside is part of the upside: sweeping topics dispatched in 42 minutes. What's nice is that after a download, it sits in my iTunes so that I can relisten anytime, I can back it up to listen more carefully to certain passages (upacking the density) with a click of the cursor. Melvin Bragg is pretty good in that while he is affable, he will hold his guest-academics' feet to the fire... even though the time frame keeps him from giving them a proper roasting.

There's much more commentary to deliver here. But alas!

This note will have to do for now. More later of course.

(If anyone can tell me how to download the rest of the archives, I'd appreciate it. I can only get these programs via podcast. For some reason, my (iBook) computer won't allow any other form of download from places such as the BBC, C-Span and a few other sites. Other downloads such as radio, video clips, music, and such, no problem.)