Posts Tagged ‘Spitfire’
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Darkling I listen
1July 3, 2014 by Lydia Syson
I’ve only heard a nightingale sing once, in a wood near Bristol, when I was in my early twenties. Last Sunday I stood in the dark and listened to a recording made in 1942, in Surrey. This nightingale was ‘pouring forth its soul abroad’ – rather more widely even than Keats’ bird, since it was being broadcast live by the BBC – in a short-lived annual tradition that was about to end. It was broken that night because the engineer realised that his new high-fidelity microphone was also picking up the growing hum of a flight of bombers. Nearly two hundred aircraft were heading for Germany, and he did not want to warn the enemy of the impending raid. Fortunately he continued to record, if not to broadcast, and the result is now part of The Wind Tunnel Project. keep reading
Category News | Tags: Artliner, Combat Stress, Corinna Dean, Farnborough, FAST, Keats, Nightingale, Outside Broadcast, Slacklands, Spitfire, test pilot, The Wind Tunnel Project
