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Colonists
Episode 16 of 30
David Hendy explores the soundscape of the American colonialists - and their conflict with native American Indians.
Settlers arriving in America in the 17th century decreed the songs and sounds of native American Indians to be barbaric and wild - bloodcurdling hollering that might presage the most brutal of deaths.
Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex explores the colonial politics of sound.
30-part series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive.
Producer: Matt Thompson.
A Rockethouse production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 first broadcast in 2013.
Last on
Tue 11 Jun 2019
02:15
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
Jamestown Settlement
The image used to illustrate this episode shows theΒ recreation of early 17th Century English ships at (Β© Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation).
Broadcasts
- Mon 9 Nov 2015 14:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 10 Nov 2015 02:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Mon 10 Jun 2019 14:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 11 Jun 2019 02:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
Noise retold by Matthew Herbert
The head of the New Radiophonic Workshop retells the Noise series using only the sounds.