Summary
Professor of Acoustic Engineering Trevor Cox talks to musicians and scientists to look at the acoustics of musical instruments.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rory Stewart and I grew up wanting to be a hero and I'm still fascinated by the ideas of heroism. |
| 0:08.9 | In my new series, I'm taking in the long sweep of history from Achilles to Zelensky and asking, what is a hero? |
| 0:16.2 | Simply doing your job, being a decent human being. |
| 0:20.0 | A true hero is someone who just kind of shines by their own light, |
| 0:23.9 | and that light is to be recognised by others. |
| 0:26.5 | The Long History of Heroism with me, Rory Stewart. |
| 0:29.5 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.6 | Thank you for downloading from the BBC. |
| 0:35.4 | For details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, |
| 0:39.5 | go to BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts. |
| 0:45.5 | Musical instruments make sound. |
| 0:48.2 | Obvious, isn't it? |
| 0:49.6 | But scientists are still trying to find out how. |
| 0:53.1 | There's one we're all born with, the human voice. That is unbelievable. You started off and I thought, well, this is someone singing. |
| 1:23.3 | I can recognise a voice. |
| 1:24.3 | And then you disappear into this sound which I've never heard before |
| 1:27.7 | and doesn't sound like it should be coming from a human. |
| 1:30.1 | That is amazing. |
| 1:31.6 | It does come from a human voice. |
| 1:33.3 | I feel that the human voice is the most flexible musical instrument there is. |
| 1:37.4 | To unpit the science of this incredibly versatile instrument, |
| 1:40.8 | I'll be analysing three very different singing styles. |
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