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Recording of the Week: Can you recognise a speaker from the East Midlands?
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Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:01am EDT by Richard Ranft
Jonnie Robinson, a specialist in sociolinguistics & education at the British Library, writes: Listen particularly to the distinctive intonation patterns of this speaker from Leicestershire,...
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Voices of the UK - I like a Geordie accent
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Posted: August 25th, 2010, 2:11pm EDT by Holly Gilbert
As soon as a person opens their mouth and speaks it’s difficult to avoid noticing the way they pronounce their words. On first meeting someone it’s easy to quickly form opinions about where they come...
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Women's voices call the shots in recorded announcements
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Posted: August 25th, 2010, 10:10am EDT by Ian Rawes
In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, controlling unrest is very different to the ‘With a loud voice command’ of the 1714 Riot Act: Suddenly, from out of the Synthetic Music Box a Voice began to speak....
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Voices of the UK - put a couple of effs in it
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Posted: August 18th, 2010, 10:00am EDT by Jon Herring
This is the third of our posts about Welsh recordings from the BBC Voices collection. The interview took place with a farming family in Builth Wells in Powys (formerly Brecknockshire). In the clip...
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Recording of the Week: Chris Burden at the ICA in 1990
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Posted: August 11th, 2010, 4:36pm EDT by Richard Ranft
Stephen Cleary, Curator of Drama & Literature recordings at the British Library Sound Archive, writes: In this ICA talk from 1990, American performance artist Chris Burden discusses his famous...
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Voices of the UK - A cwtch on the couch
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Posted: August 11th, 2010, 10:00am EDT by Jon Herring
Following on from the last Voices of the UK post about code-switching in Northwest Wales, this week we have speakers from the south of Wales, from Treorchy in the Rhondda. This is an area not so...
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Sound categories and finding subjects to record
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Posted: August 4th, 2010, 1:18pm EDT by Ian Rawes
The British Library's UK SoundMap offers some suggestions to help contributors get started, and these are couched in general terms because the choices people make will be informative. Even so,...
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Voices of the UK - We call it a ‘to bach’
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Posted: August 4th, 2010, 10:00am EDT by Jon Herring
I was excited and delighted to spend some time analysing the recording from Bethesda in Northwest Wales, because it is the village I was living in before I moved to London last year (to come and work...
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Sounds wild: Chris Watson & Sir David Attenborough in conversation
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Posted: August 4th, 2010, 6:00am EDT by Richard Ranft
Next week I’ll be taking part in a public discussion about rainforests and their sounds with Sir David Attenborough and Chris Watson. Watson’s wildlife sound recordings are perhaps best known through...
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Recording of the Week: Stridulating Warbler?
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Posted: August 2nd, 2010, 11:56am EDT by Richard Ranft
Cheryl Tipp, curator of wildlife sounds at the British Library Sound Archive, writes: You would be forgiven for thinking you were listening to the trilling of a stridulating insect. In fact you are...
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