Little Histories

After a hiatus of some five months LocalLife will be springing into life once again shortly with the first of what I am calling 'Little Histories'.

So what is this all about? As previous listeners and visitors may be aware I travel around the UK a lot with my work. This means that I get to see a wide area of the country but often with little free time to explore in depth or to create audio. The length of audio I was producing last year was becoming quite time consuming and whilst I love to learn about places, things, animals and history, commitments work wise and home wise were making the audio production a time consuming chore that ate into any free time I had. Also the amount of research that had to go into some of the projects such as the Civil War in Lichfield was becoming somewhat of a chore and hence not enjoyable. I guess I like my history in bite sized basic chunks!

The 'Little Histories' projects will I hope allow for my love of audio and of exploration into my home country but without becoming a chore. I intend and so far have researched two episodes of 'Little Histories' which will be audio sound bytes from places in the UK looking in brief at the history, fauna and flora of the areas but in 15 minute location audios with no voice overs or post editing. They won't be indepth and will cover anything from Neolithic times to the present time of a location in a single 15 minute episode from which I can learn something of the area from my research and maybe the listener will learn or find something of interest that maybe will encourage further investigation.

The first episode concerning an area I am working in this weekend should be recorded and up within the next 7 days, with the second following a week or so later. I have started researching the third episode and hopefully more will follow on a regular basis.....

Comments

[ChasCreek]

Hi Paul, nice to hear from you and thankyou for the compliment.

[Paul]

This is great Charlie. Congratulations. Really enjoyable.