"They melt back," a musician says, a little forlornly, in one of the week's most extraordinary listens.
It's there in who she is.… That's what makes her so extraordinary to listen to".
Still, it is extraordinary to listen to her catalogue the effects her club foot has had on her rugby career – from increased injuries to everyday training regimes – and all the more impressive to consider that the first female recipient of the esteemed Pat Marshall award for the outstanding rugby personality of the year has achieved so much, despite the added obstacle.
Dad developed an extraordinary talent for listening to speeded-up tape readings to save time.
When Ofsted visited in 2014, however, the school was rated "outstanding" in every area and described as "an exciting place to learn" where pupils developed "extraordinary skills in listening, speaking and questioning".
Momo is a girl who has an extraordinary ability to listen.
If, at this microscopic level of detail, it feels at times like the interview version of a filibuster, or being kidnapped, it is still extraordinary: when you listen to his life's work in detail, his originality comes into focus.
In an extraordinary performance, Clare Higgins listens to the emotion that's built into her role, the fear and the loathing and the embarrassment that Edna feels, shivering a little in her fur coat, beside her small and slight — in every sense of the word — husband.
In an extraordinary performance, Clare Higgins listens to the emotion that's built into her role, the fear and the loathing and the embarrassment that Edna feels, shivering a little in her fur coat, beside her small and slight in every sense of the word husband.
