Tonight on SoundartRadio radio show, Gene Pool, I talk about my new show “south west culture conversations”.
Listen live on this licensed community radio station for Totnes and surrounding villages at 7pm tonight. Or streamed live from the website: www.soundartradio.org.uk.
another great bfi extract. Filmed over a 12-month period, this study of children’s games played in London streets and playgrounds stands out for its freshness and spontaneity; it remains an important companion piece to Peter and Iona Opie’s classic studies of children’s games and rhymes.
Director Leslie Daiken demonstrates considerable skill and understanding in the way he captures the children, whose games range from the repetitive tongue-twisters chanted by the girls to a small boy trailing a stick along iron railings.
Made over a decade after the end of the war, the film also stands as a record of the bomb sites that pockmarked London and provided many urban children with a place to play. (Robin Baker)
Filmed over a 12-month period by Leslie Daiken, this study of children’s games played in London streets and playgrounds stands out for its freshness and spontaneity, and records the bomb sites that pockmarked London and provided many urban children with a place to play. This extract captures the post-Halloween rituals of 5 November – Guy Fawkes Night – including the once familiar call of “penny for the Guy”.
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The show can be heard from this Wednesday 2nd November 7pm (GMT). The Gene Pool goes out to air on Soundart Radio 102.5FM and live stream from: http://www.soundartradio.org.uk
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The show features wonderful submitted work by: Joe Stevens, Matt Davies, Udo Noll, Steve Barsoti and Pablo Sanz.
