{"id":1233,"date":"2012-07-15T18:42:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T18:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2012-07-15T18:42:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T18:42:01","slug":"sound-sculpture-bbcs-saturday-live-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/15\/sound-sculpture-bbcs-saturday-live-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Sculpture, BBC&#8217;s &#8216;Saturday Live&#8217; programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I like about the British Media in general, and the BBC in particular, is that they&#8217;ll let just about anyone have a go at broadcasting if they have something reasonably interesting to say. I&#8217;d already appeared on the BBC&#8217;s From Our Own Correspondent \u00a0(twice) and on Excess Baggage (also twice &#8211; talking about Sinai and Palestine respectively). But on 30 June a rather different story was broadcast, on Radio 4&#8217;s Saturday morning programme, Saturday Live. This was part of their &#8216;Sound Sculpture&#8217; series, where listeners pick a sound and describe what it means to them (great radio!). \u00a0So here&#8217;s my Sound Sculpture, which pops up\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio\/player\/b01k9lc0\">around 12.30 minutes<\/a> into the programme.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1238\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/iron.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1238\" title=\"Iron\" src=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/iron.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1970s Hoover steam iron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I like about the British Media in general, and the BBC in particular, is that they&#8217;ll let just about anyone have a go at broadcasting if they have something reasonably interesting to say. I&#8217;d already appeared on the BBC&#8217;s From Our Own Correspondent \u00a0(twice) and on Excess Baggage (also twice &#8211; talking about Sinai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}