Original upload date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 10:21:01 GMT
Back in 2004, when the paperback of Foxy-T was published, I had a call from Radio 4's Today programme, or actually a fax: they tracked me down to a hotel room in Tallinn, Estonia where I was attending
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the ISEA 2004 digital arts and electronic media festival (festival programme here). As part of their coverage of the next day's A-level results they would be interviewing the then Schools Minister David Milliband and others about supposed falling standards in secondary education, after which they would turn to me to talk about Foxy-T. During the interview, the then presenter Ed Stourton gamely read a section of my novel aloud before asking whether by using such contemporary language I was in fact excluding 'some of us'.
The Today programme's sound archive which includes every programme broadcast since 2003, is missing this section, which is listed here at 08:20 on 19 August 2004. However I do own a low quality cassette recording which I have digitised and am making available now (with only mild apologies for the background noise and hiss) since part of the purpose of this site is to make archive materials available, and a poor quality recording is generally preferable to no recording at all.
Photograph of Telecall International by Daniel Wootton.
Foxy-T on the Book Depository http://bit.ly/c9rhkl
