This is a website expressing my personal views – through a selection of opinionated observations and arguments. I’ll be including stories I like, ideas I find fascinating, work in progress and a selection of material from the BBC archives.
First broadcast in 1989, ten years after Vernon Oxford turned his back on a country music career in Nashville to dedicate his life to God. As a gospel preacher in Franklin, Tennessee, he extends his congregation beyond his own community in the southern states of America and takes his mission to Northern Ireland.
…a commission from Liverpool Capital of Culture 2008 an epic year-long project that brought together 18 local pub singers with the RLPO for a sell-out concert in the Philharmonic Hall.
"When you write it, that's in investment. When you hear it back, that's the gross. Your system automatically takes out the investment and determines the profit… enjoyment"
In this episode Charles Hazlewood tracks down the pioneers of minimalism, which began on America's west coast in the 1950s. Describing them as 'prophets without honour'.
In this episode, I meet with Benedict Campbell. He talks about the many changes of career in his life, how finding new challenges keeps him happy. He explained how his film about cyclocross, ‘For the Love of Mud’ came about and how he challenges himself every day in his craft. It is a really interesting and inspiring episode about a man with many, many talents.
I swear...it's not a world of men... it's not a world of men, Machine...it's a world of clock watchers, bureaucrats, officeholders...what it is, it's a fucked-up world...there's no adventure to it.
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