I love making radio programmes. Both for the freedom I get in producing the material for them, there’s so much less fuss than in tv, and for the impact radio has on its listeners, they have so much more room to think and to imagine. Radio makes a theatre of one’s head. None of the programmes below would have been possible without the excellent and inspiring work of the producers I have been privileged to work with, they are the true stars of the medium. Thank you for listening and please let me know what you think and feel about the work.
Programmes I Have Made for Radio 4
How to Archive Yourself
In October 1998 Gordon Bell went paperless. This is Gordon Bell, of Microsoft, who has been described as “the Frank Lloyd Wright of computers”. He has archived everything he has written and now records the minutiae of his life digitally as part of a project called MyLifeBits, an experiment designed to assist and maybe even supersede memory. But now that we can record so much of our lives are we missing out on the living of them?
Producer: Sara Jane Hall. First broadcast 9th April 2011