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Pick of the Week: Simon Parkes

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Simon Parkes

16/09/2018

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Writer and broadcaster Simon Parkes  picks the best of BBC Radio this week

Writer and broadcaster Simon Parkes makes his pick of the best of BBC Radio this week

There’s a kind of layered feel to Pick of the Week with writer and broadcaster Simon Parkes: We visit forests and swamps peopled by ancestors and ghosts who talk to the living; explore the Italian obsession with the way that distinctly public and private spaces are inhabited,  and there’s the murky world of computer algorithms – the nuts and bolts of the modern age that gather information about us as they click and whirr.  We meet influential  women - both real and imagined, wordsmiths besotted by language and accent, and experience a versatility of the human voice that you really have to hear to believe.

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