Review: Sounding Post- BBC Radio4

Subject: Review: Sounding Post- BBC Radio4
From: Noreen
Date: 09 May 08 - 06:50 AM

Just heard a really lovely programme on Radio 4 which Mudcatters would love- I hope it will be available on 'Listen Again' though I can't find it there at the moment.

It wasn't a traditional 'documentary' but more people who make instruments and know about trees and wood talking about their subject... lovely.


Listed under Arts & Drama:

Sounding Post

Friday 9 May 2008 11:00-11:30 (Radio 4 FM)
Nina Perry takes a musical journey tracing the wood used in making musical instruments back to the forest, from an Irish flute maker and a Los Angeles-based guitarist to the Mpingo Conservation Project in Tanzania.

She learns about the sonorous qualities of different species, the increasing issue of maintaining sustainable supplies and the people who connect the music to the tree.

Contributors include guitarist Laurence Juber, instrument makers Martin Doyle and Martin Bowers, forester Martin Charlton, Scott Paul of the Greenpeace Music Wood Campaign and musicians and craftsmen in South Eastern Tanzania.

Subject: RE: Review: Sounding Post- BBC Radio4
From: Noreen
Date: 09 May 08 - 05:04 PM

The link has now arrived: Listen again: Sounding Post

Enjoy!

Subject: RE: Review: Sounding Post- BBC Radio4
From: sapper82
Date: 09 May 08 - 05:31 PM

you copying thing of my posting???

;-)

Subject: RE: Review: Sounding Post- BBC Radio4
From: Noreen
Date: 09 May 08 - 06:16 PM

I didn't see your thread sorry.

I had posted this morning straight after I heard the programme and came back to complete with the listen again info when I found it.

As long as others get to listen to it, eh?