‘Spalato–The City within a Roman Palace’ has just aired, on this day on 3LO @abcmelbourne in 1936. Read by my grandfather as part of a series of talks under the eye/ear of C. Hughes Hallett, Controller of Talks and Services. Would any recordings exist somewhere?
#radio #archives
#radio #archives
Who knew Diocletian had a thing for cabbages?
Wish I’d read this stuff when I stayed in the Palace years ago. I’d love to have known of the four gates: Golden (for his birthplace), Silver (for the moon across the water), Bronze & Iron (for the metals that defended the State.)
Wish I’d read this stuff when I stayed in the Palace years ago. I’d love to have known of the four gates: Golden (for his birthplace), Silver (for the moon across the water), Bronze & Iron (for the metals that defended the State.)
In other archival records, the motorcycle diaries from May 1929, sent from London in 1930. Written in conjunction with his travelling companion, Harry Solomon. From Salisbury to Torquay, Lands End, Clovelly, Kilve, Cheddar, Wells. Losing petrol caps, stalling on hills & swearing.
Trip itinerary from 1950s, the typed texts of the talks from 1930s, and tapes possibly from 1970s. I’ve never heard the tapes, which tell of ‘our first walk in Positano’, ‘trip to Delphi’ & intriguingly ‘passenger on plane to Athens’…(What did they say?)
#archives #travel
#archives #travel
And to the other voice, the unpublished one, hi Grandma. (Check this @DuskaSulicich Bit of Age editorial history!)
https://twitter.com/subbie/status/1614818041132625921
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