I’ve hardly dared switch the radio on over the last few days so blissful has been the quiet engendered by the Ash Crisis.
I’ve hardly dared switch the radio on over the last few days so blissful has been the quiet engendered by the Ash Crisis. The absence of noise is uncanny; this new soundtrack of life so deep, stretching way up into the empty skies. Why spoil it by turning on the radio? Yet an election looms, my sister’s stuck in Sri Lanka and I discover that my mind is just too addicted to grazing on news and ideas, facts and opinions to stop listening.
On Saturday night, Terence Davies, the film-maker, produced his first documentary for radio, Intensive Care (Radio 3), a meditation on his much-loved mother and his struggle to leave home and find his creative voice.
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