#121 Silent Films (Part 2)

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🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

Time to go back to the golden age of cinema; this week we’ll tell the story of how sport first burst onto the big screen, how the first silent films were soundtracked and how F Scott Fitzgerald fell in and out of love with Hollywood.

And we’re also discussing the things that take us back in time (like the theme tune to Going For Gold). What takes you back in time? AND PLEASE SEND US YOUR QUAINT LOCAL ATTRACTIONS! (With a pic of the leaflet if possible).

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0:32.2	Sounds. In the 90s, my friend and fellow journalist Don Phillips was at the centre of the UK's dance music explosion.
0:42.8	By 2022, he had mysteriously disappeared in one of the remotest parts of the Amazon jungle, with his friend Bruno Pereira.
0:52.0	In 2025, so many questions remain.
0:56.7	I'm Tom Phillips, the Guardian's Latin America correspondent.
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1:04.5	This is part two of silent cinema.
1:07.0	It's going on on the show.
1:10.0	Music It's going on the show.
1:40.0	So, lovely, lovely boys, today I'm going to talk to you about the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and how an unexpected job in silent movies set him on his way to becoming, A, one of the most famous classical composers in the world, and B, into a situation that would save his life.
1:40.3	Right.
1:45.6	His job had a key impact on saving his life later.
1:48.4	Just a glimpse by the magician's cloth.
1:53.1	We had to Tomatov another goal of pronouncing Shostakov's name,
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