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The town of Belmez de la Moraleda seemed abandoned, all the roads were blocked and prohibition signs were pasted everywhere. We were looking for the house. We parked on the edge of town, and trudged in, the car thermometer read 41 degrees Celsius. Man, it was baking. We were looking for the house. We rummaged Continue Reading
I had a fantastic time recording Sheila Foster – she has led such a diverse and full life and continues to do so, ticking off her lengthy bucket list with gusto! It was a privilege to record her life. If you are interested in booking a recording or want further information, email me on russell@lifestoryrecording Continue Reading
Manyang Reath Kher encompasses an alluring manner which makes you believe in him, so I wasn’t at all surprised when I read that Pete Buttigieg, who is running for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential nomination, endorsed Manyang and 734 coffee for his work in raising awareness for refugees. Pete Buttigieg stated Continue Reading
Like I said, at the beginning, once I got to thinking about those trees in the Volkspark, those oaks and maples swaying in the summer wind. And I was wondering, how old are those threes? One hundred? Two hundred years old? This is Berlin, so you are always thinking, at least, I was always thinking, Continue Reading
After the border between East and West Berlin was closed on 13 August, 1961 and the Berlin Wall was built, underground connections still existed between the two city halves. Two U-Bahn lines and one S-Bahn line traveled beneath the old city centre of East Berlin on their way from one section of West Berlin to Continue Reading
My recordings in Berlin are almost finished, they have went well, but it means that my time in Berlin is drawing to a close, which means my Vanishing Berlin series will be concluding, or perhaps only paused, as I would like to return, perhaps with my Pops, as there is so much more to see Continue Reading
What’s the story with the song Mack The Knife? I always knew it as a Bobby Darin tune, with which he achieved his only number one, in the US in 1959. You know it, even if you don’t think you do, chances are you danced to it at a wedding or warbled it at your Continue Reading
“But remember that words are signals, counters. They are not immortal. And it can happen – to use an image you’ll understand – it can happen that a civilisation can be imprisoned in a linguistic contour which no longer matches the landscape of… fact.” Brian Friel, Translations I am interviewing a number of South Sudanese Continue Reading
Godwins Law states – As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1; that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will start mentioning Hitler. I was chatting to The Mule about my Vanishing Berlin series Continue Reading
