Jane Wright
speaker
23 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 18 Jun
Jane Wright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Silence.
No problem.
Guglielmo Marconi was one of the great pioneers of long-distance radio transmission and the originator of the code books.
He's considered the father of modern radio.
When he started out, his business plan was to provide long-distance mobile communication on a global scale.
But he also became a little obsessed with sound.
So in theory, if the myth holds, in Marconi's mind, if he could build the right listening device, then any sound could be recovered.
Any conversation or any concert.
He wanted to know what music the orchestra was playing as the Titanic went down.
In fact, he was supposed to be on it, but he changed his plans.
Perhaps, he later thought, if he could find the pocket of the world where it was stored, he could listen as far back as Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.
The writer Virginia Woolf, walking the path to mental breakdown, heard sounds.
The sparrows outside, singing in Greek.
Fault.
Fault.
Welcome, Nada.
Thanks for joining our podcast.
Yeah, you get a real sense of the elements here, don't you?
Yes, yes, absolutely.
So when Jane Austen came here, at what stage of her life and her writing was she at?
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