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  • THE CENTURY SPEAKS 2
    2025/04/21

    Essex people talk about renting property, the increasing popularity of buying houses, and the building of large new estates and new towns.

    There is also discussion about the transformation of domestic life by new technology - improvements in heating, sanitation and food preparation.


    Broadcast on BBC Essex in 1999.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    31 分
  • THE CENTURY SPEAKS 1
    2025/04/06

    From a helicopter above Essex the county's landscape is described: its fields, woodlands, coastline, towns, villages, farms, roads and industry.

    People discuss how new developments, including new towns, transformed a once almost entirely rural environment.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    30 分
  • CENTURY SPEAKS Trail 1
    2025/03/23

    Promoting a 16-part social history series which explores how everyday life changed during the 20th Century, described by the people of Essex.

    The series can be heard here: soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/the-century-speaks

    Century Speaks

    history

    social history

    oral history

    people

    change

    20th century

    Essex

    BBC

    Radio

    millennium

    1999

    archive

    interviews

    British Library

    Sound Archive

    memories



    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    1 分