O'Brien, a poet and critic, narrates his life through the recordings he has listened to — 45s, LPs, radio jingles — shaping his memoir as a sequence of musical madeleines.
Famously loquacious off the air, Mr. Spitzer speaks on "American Routes" mostly through the recordings themselves and his crafty way of structuring a show.
And then there's the collection of recordings about Sept. 11, packed with quivering voices telling of a lost loved one, their memory distilled into permanence through the recordings.
Instead of sifting through the recordings of musicians both revered and half-remembered, a number of boxed sets simply reprocess an entire label's catalog, plus outtakes, for performers as disparate as Billie Holiday, Joy Division, Simon and Garfunkel and the Grateful Dead.
Barker was already unwell when they reunited to record links for a BBC compilation show, The Two Ronnies Sketchbook, earlier that year, and those who worked on the shows spoke of the tender way Corbett helped his partner through the recordings.
The tolerability of the study medication was assessed on the basis of adverse drug reactions (ADR) recordings made by the physicians at visit 2 and visit 3 and through the recordings entered by the parents/legal guardians into the patient diaries.
