Gas, oil and the Essex blues

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Canvey Island: cradle of innovation for gas heating and home to music makers Dr Feelgood, who drew inspiration from the Mississippi Delta. New Generation Thinker Sam Johnson-Schlee is an author and geographer based at London South Bank University. His essay remembers the influence of Parker Morris standards on heating in the home, songs written by Wilko Johnson and the impact of central heating on teenage record listening and playing instruments.

Producer: Julian Siddle

You can hear more from Sam in Free Thinking episodes exploring Dust and Sound, Conflict and Central Heating New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to put research on radio

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0:34.7	Hello, I'm Sam Johnson Schley.
0:36.6	I'm a writer and academic based at London South Bank University.
0:41.5	I'm a new generation thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council
0:48.3	to share new academic research. My work considers energy and the home, looking at the ways that central heating
0:57.4	has shaped our everyday life. My essay is about the links between natural gas, blues music and
1:05.2	modern life as they come together in an Essex coastal town. While leafing through copies of old adverts for central heating in the National Gas
1:15.5	Archive in Warrington, I found myself listening to Dr. Feelgood on repeat.
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