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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Sweet with NYT journalist Kate Murphy, Anne Karpf & David Toop in a conversation about paying attention and how to hear each other properly. Kate's new book You're Not Listening draws on her interviews with a range of people including priests, focus group co-ordinators and CIA interrogators. Former radio critic Anne Karpf is the author of the Human Voice and professor of Life Writing and Culture at London Metropolitan University. David Toop is a musician, composer and professor of Audio Culture and Improvisation at London College of Communication. His album Entities Inertias Faint Beings includes the track Dry Keys Echo in the Dark and Humid Early Hours which features in the programme.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps
0:21.2	it. It's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream
0:26.1	van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds.
0:33.3	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Listen very carefully. I shall say this only once.
0:40.5	This is the Arts and Ideas podcast, and this is me, Matthew Sweet, telling you that before
0:45.9	you get to hear what you actually want to hear, there's going to be some stuff that sounds
0:50.3	like adverts.
0:51.5	Pay close attention, tune out, do what you want. It's up to you.
0:57.8	Music that stops you in your tracks. And a man who became a hero. A composer who inspired the world.
1:11.7	I'm Donald Mcacloud.
1:13.7	Join me as I make an epic podcast journey
1:16.4	through the life, music and ideas of Ludwig van Beethoven.
1:21.1	I'll be telling his story in unprecedented detail throughout 2020.
1:29.3	The secret love affairs, his tragic hearing loss,
1:32.3	disasters and triumphs, struggle and transcendence.
1:37.3	It's a story to inspire with music that just might change your life.
1:46.2	In 20 years of presenting Composer of the Week,
1:49.3	I've never attempted anything this ambitious before.
1:53.6	I'd love you to join me.
1:55.4	Just search for Composer of the Week in BBC Sounds and press subscribe.
1:59.8	Thank you. of the week in BBC Sounds and press subscribe.
2:09.8	You know those things on the side of your head?
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