Poetry, Texas: Review 1

RadioDoc Review

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[1] Bournemouth UniversityBournemouth UniversityBournemouth University

关键词: radio documentary;    radio feature;    Malinovski;   

DOI  :  10.14453/rdr.v1i1.3

学科分类：电子、光学、磁材料

来源: University of Wollongong

【 摘 要 】

Documentaries and features are about stories, but although they share much common ground, they often occupy very different worlds. In many radio cultures a documentary is a journalistic framework for seeking answers to questions, whereas a feature may often be an impressionistic hybrid that can contain drama, music and poetry, moving often towards not necessarily answers, but more questions. A documentary CAN be a feature, when it documents the maker's journey as they seek a way through their subject, asking questions of themselves as much as their chosen story, often through evocation rather than exposition. Poetry, Texas is just such a program, an exploration of a metaphor in which the maker and the listener join in a thirty-minute journey into the meaning of a word, and what it is to be human. Poetry, the place, is little more than a few fields and a main street, with a water tower proclaiming its name. This is a program about change, and Malinovski is a presence throughout the journey. It is sometimes the case that a presenter can get in the way of the meaning in a feature; (but) he is a tactful and sensitive observer and companion throughout. Yet to be a feature program maker is to have a hard head as well as a soft heart; any speech program is made through journalism; when we ask a question of an interviewee with an editorial intention, we ARE making journalism, whether we choose the word or not. It may be sufficient to say here that in a radio feature such as this, a journalist asks the questions, but a poet hears and shapes the resonances in the sounds and the words. Malinovski's program is far more than an extended, rambling musing about the confluence within a word: it has a considered structure that informs its meaning, as does a good poem. Because sound and experience are temporal, our relationship with the world around us is a continuing journey, in which the senses interpret life and make memory of it. We live in the present, but we are shaped by memory, and a sound in a program can enter memory and stay. Radio is suggestive, growing out of its connection with the temporal nature of life itself; we do not know what will happen in the next moment, and 'live' radio retains its capacity to surprise in the same way. The sounds

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