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TMS: analog in a digital age
By Will last year, at the end of May, 7 Comments »
I listened to bits of yesterday’s one-day international on the radio, perched high on the cliffs in a little nook carved into the rocks, sheltered from the wind on a nearly-summery day in south Devon. There was no phone reception, and therefore no temptation for me to check Cricinfo for the scores, or the myriad of other alternate online distractions.
Test Match Special doesn’t need to move with the times, and I don’t even think radio as a medium needs to either. There is talk of DAB productions becoming more “visual”, which is a witty oxymoron, but there’s little that necessitates having pictures/video alongside audio on the radio. That is its charm and appeal, after all; being immersed in the spoken word and allowing your mind to conjure up the images. It’s far more enjoyable, what we produce in our own heads. Paul Collingwood, in my own mind, bats much less crabbily than his real-life persona and Chris Gayle even smiles at first slip.
Yesterday was the first time in months, possibly a year or more, that I listened to an international on the radio and I’ve not enjoyed a match so much for years. Cutting off one or more senses can heighten the others: less really can be more.
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