26Apr
Humphrey Lyttelton, 1921—2008
posted by Steve Bowbrick
Humphrey Lyttelton, who died earlier this evening, loved Buddy Bolden, a troubled, almost mythical jazz trumpeter from turn-of-the-century New Orleans. In his later life, Humph attempted a kind of reconstruction of Bolden’s music, which can’t have been easy because it was never recorded in his lifetime. I’d like to have featured one of Humph’s Bolden [...]
10Apr
Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture: Death
posted by Kim Plowright
A bit of a delay on this one, as the iPlayer stream didn’t appear for a good couple of hours after broadcast yesterday.
If you can cope with an hour of Dan Cruickshank’s oooh-gosh-blimey-cripes presenting style - truly, he is what Molesworth would have grown up to be - this second programme in his culture and [...]
