Our 80 minute CD portrait of Framlingham was made in late 2007 and features 30 local voices, as well as natural sound and music.
Besides the contemporary voices, you will also hear the voice of Mr Harold Lanman, founder of the town museum, recorded back in 1974, talking about his life in the town before World War 1.
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You can buy Our Town in Sound at Victoria Bell's bookshop on the Market Hill, Framlingham, or from me directly for £6.50 including postage and packing.
You can also order it securely online below. Don't panic when you check out and are asked for your Paypal login. Simply select the "Don't have a paypal account" option which allows you to pay safely by credit card.
Reactions to Our Town In Sound
Our Town in Sound is an absolute delight, very professionally recorded and put together but, far more important, really touching heart and mind. The little town sprang to life. I love the programme's leisurely pace and the way people and things seem to come quietly and sometimes surprisingly out of the landscape. Your use of the town-clock provides a beautiful leitmotif and all the music is there for a purpose, another layer of promenade.
Piers Plowright, former head of documentary features at BBC Radio 4
Congratulations on creating a highly entertaining and informative CD which, as a relatively new resident, made me all the more glad to be here.
Mr Chapman, Framlingham
I produce the talking books show and it's very good. It's so well done, I have to play a bit of it!
Robert Kirkwood, Insight Radio - The Radio Station of the RNIB
Diss: Our Town in Sound looks at how this market town has changed in character since John Betjeman made his famous film back in 1964.
Combining the memories of 20 local people with sounds from the town, music, and also the voice of Sir John, bring a forgotten Diss back to life.
Diss: Our Town in Sound is stocked in the Diss Museum shop and the Diss Publishing Bookshop, where you can also enjoy one of the most scenic views for a cup of coffee in the Waveney Valley! You can also buy it direct from us. The CD costs £6.50 including postage and packing. You can order it securely online below. Don't panic when you check out and are asked for your Paypal login. Simply select the "Don't have a paypal account" option which allows you to pay safely by credit card.
Nestling within a curve of the River Waveney in Suffolk, Bungay is an archetypal East Anglian market town where life used to have its own regular rhythm. “If I was to go back in time, I think I could tell what day of the week it was immediately. Monday mornings the town was deserted because, traditionally, that was when the women did their weekly washing. Wednesday was half-day closing, Thursday was market day and on Saturdays, the town was packed with families,” says Christopher Reeve, curator of Bungay Museum and one of ten local people who share their memories of the town with us.
This documentary programme contrasts the recorded sounds of modern Bungay with insightful, touching and humorous recollections of a bygone era as told by some great town characters. One of these is Gordon Knowles who takes us on a dawn journey to feed his friends on the famous “Chicken Roundabout,” and treats us to his immensely entertaining memories of the last seven decades.
The CD is for sale in Bungay at Lodge Cordell, the Chocolate Box, the Toy Emporium in Bungay as well as the Bookthrift bookshop, Beccles.
Bungay: Our Town in Sound costs £6.50 including postage and packing. You can order it securely online below. Don't panic when you check out and are asked for your Paypal login. Simply select the "Don't have a paypal account" option which allows you to pay safely by credit card.
Reactions to Bungay: Our Town In Sound
"I delighted in your tour of this old town, the voices, the stories, the sound colours. Like listening to old apples and soft winds and slow flowing water. Very well put together too I thought with gentle and smooth mixes and a sense of a journey [...] I loved the way, though, changes in time and attitude were so neatly shown in small ways: the story of the boy who was simple, the real poverty of some of the children, the men drinking their pay away at the pubs,the giving of free fish in same to stimulate thirst, the coming of the war, the compassionate buying from the old woman who had so little, the clout round the ear from the local bobby, and the closer about people no longer whistling. Anyway, a wooing enticing listen, with those wonderful voices preserved for all our delights."
Piers Plowright, former head of documentary features at BBC Radio 4
I bought the Bungay CD from you at the Fisher Theatre on Sunday. I feel I must write to thank you so very much for your production, which I think could not have been bettered. I know all of the contributors and listening to your production has made me smile, laugh out loud and cry at different times.
Iain Huggin
Our Town in Sound takes you on a 75-minute journey around Southwold, interweaving the sounds of the town with the voices of its residents. Explore its history and listen to eye-witness accounts of the war years and the horrendous 1953 floods. Meet the people who shape modern Southwold, from the owner of the Pier to the manager of an eccentric new cinema. And sit back and enjoy the wit and charm of one of Southwold great ambassadors, Michael Palin, whose own affectionate memories of the town stretch back half a century.
Southwold: Our Town in Sound costs £6.50 and can be bought in the following Southwold shops: Orwell Bookshop, Bookthrift, Wells Photographic, Tourist Information, Chapmans Newsagents, the Southwold Museum and of course, the Southwold Pier. It is also available in Waterstones Lowestoft, the Halesworth Bookshop, Halesworth Stationers and other shops in the area.
You can also buy it direct from us.
Southwold: Our Town in Sound costs £6.50 including postage and packing. You can order it securely online below. Don't panic when you check out and are asked for your Paypal login. Simply select the "Don't have a paypal account" option which allows you to pay safely by credit card.
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