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Life in the City
Episode 24 of 30
David Hendy follows the writer Thomas Carlyle's grumpy attempts at soundproofing, as next door’s noise became harder to escape.
As cities grew, next-door's noise became increasingly hard to escape.
Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex follows the writer Thomas Carlyle's grumpy attempts at soundproofing, before travelling to New York to imagine the teaming, noisy world of the Lower East Side tenements in the early 20th-century.
30-part series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive.
Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson.
Producer: Matt Thompson
A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4.
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Noise retold by Matthew Herbert
The head of the New Radiophonic Workshop retells the Noise series using only the sounds.
