Brian Eno on Lord Young of Dartington

Great Lives

BBC

History, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2014

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Brian Eno has worked with David Bowie, David Byrne and U2 but his choice of Great Life is not a rock star but the sociologist Lord Young of Dartington. Michael Young wrote the Labour Party's 1945 election manifesto, researched slum clearance in the East End of London, set up the Consumers' Association, coined the word "meritocracy", co-founded the Open University and planned the colonisation of Mars. With the help of Michael's son Toby, Brian considers the life and work of one of the architects of post-war Britain. Producer: Julia Johnson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.

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0:40.8	My guest this week is a composer,
0:43.0	producer, artist and musical collaborator.
0:46.0	A founder member of Roxy Music,
0:48.0	he's worked with David Bowie, David Byrne, Coldplay and You 2. He produced this.
0:55.0	See the stone set in your eyes.
0:59.0	See the thorn twist in your side. And this.
1:04.0	And this.
1:05.0	I ride on a perfect free way. And he's been enormously influential as a composer of ambient and electronic music.
1:18.0	That's a genre of instrumental music without traditional song structure or rhythm that uses sound to evoke and
1:25.6	invoke a mood, a feeling, an emotion. Brian Eno
1:37.0	wouldn't claim he invented ambient music, but I would.
1:40.0	He turned it into a distinct art form.
1:42.0	It's all around us these days.
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