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Broadcaster Fi Glover on how radio voices 'make the global local and the local global'.

Broadcaster Fi Glover discusses how radio voices 'make the global local and the local global'. Why does the radio voice still reach deep into our hearts and minds?

The last of five personal essays on the voice and radio. Broadcaster Fi Glover on how radio voices make the global local and the local global. Fi Glover has worked in almost every job that radio offers and is currently presenting the Listening Project on BBC Radio 4 - a programme in which her voice hardly appears whilst the voices of its contributors (ordinary people often at corners of their lives) are rich in personality and incident. Is radio good at not presenting and just listening? Has the BBC traditionally over-managed those who speak on its airwaves? And what of hate speech and hate radio? Why does the radio voice still reach deep into our hearts and minds in the era of screen-based living and social media?

An essay given in front of an audience at the British Academy in London in October 2014 as part of a series of events marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dylan Thomas. Producer: Tim Dee.

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Series of essays about the voice and radio

Series of essays on the voice and radio recorded in front of an audience at the British Academy in London, marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dylan Thomas

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