Monday, 1 May 2023

Product Placement

I enjoy the work of Dorothy L Sayers. She is known best as an author of detective stories, but she also wrote plays, translated Dante and created advertisements - as, for instance, 'Guinness is Good for You!'

Anyway, her novel Murder Must Advertise contains two montage-like sequences of advertising slogans. The adaptations of Murder (BBC Radio and Television, both with Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey) leave these out - which is a shame, as I rather think they have a good rhythm. So I have recorded both - please see below.

Enjoy.

4 comments:

  1. Brilliant.

    Whatever you're doing . . . stop it! And do something else.

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    1. Well, I've got at least one more of these planned!

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  2. Haha that is surprisingly good.

    Think there's a lot of untapped potential for audio content on blogs - not podcast length, shorter stuff like this, or like the derro recording on False Machine way back when: http://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/derro.html - have also seen lately a few good posts with thematic/inspirational playlists. Grand Commodore's fiction & poetry readings too.

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    1. Hadn't thought about the dErO in a while. Which is presumably how they like it.
      See also: https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-derro-review-captain-america-2.html

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