David Darling
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349 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 1 Aug
David Darling’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's one of the longest reverberation times of any human-made space.
And they even hold concerts in there, very unusual concerts, I might add, because, of course, as soon as you make a sound, that sound is going to carry on for a long time.
So you have to come up with a composition that works in that sort of environment.
So that's very interesting to me, this whole idea of reverberation.
There are bigger reverberation spaces, but this one happens to be nearby.
So I have a particular fascination for it.
talk about poisons what's the most poisonous thing of course in the past poisons were used for getting rid of people you didn't like there were obviously things like strychnine and arsenic and those sort of things you could actually pay people this is going back into sort of late medieval renaissance europe to dispose of people you didn't want by by getting you know some of these substances
But as time goes on, we found there are more and more poisonous things.
I can think of, for example, the poison arrow frog.
You can just touch a poison arrow frog and make the mistake of putting that into your mouth, and that can be lethal.
The puffer fish, for example, which is found off the coast of Japan and is considered a
delicacy in japan but it has to be cooked properly because if it isn't again it's deadly so chefs that serve puffer fish have to have three years of training uh before they'll be allowed to prepare a meal of this for for the public if you want to go to the most poisonous things of all you're talking about bacterial toxins botulin and this sort of thing
which are so poisonous that they are they're deadly in microscopic amounts so the botulin toxin is actually the most poisonous substance we know and it takes a microscopic amount of it to to to kill a person
Thanks very much, Mike, for having me on your show.
It's been great fun.
And thank you.
interesting about the Beatles actually is if you try to play along with some of the early tracks and play along with your guitar, say, as I've as I've done, you'll find that you're actually out of tune with what the
course, you don't have to know about the science of music to enjoy it.
Thank goodness we can all sit back and listen to a you know, Beethoven symphony or um or the Beatles without knowing the physics of what's going on.
Nevertheless, it's an intriguing story, and it's an important story to tell, because these three areas have evolved together right from the dawn of uh civilization and pre-civilization, actually pre-history.
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