The Daily Telegraph - Saturday - Review
CHARLOTTE RUNCIE
RADIO CRITIC
New technology and how it’s changing the world is a strong theme on this week’s radio. Once upon a time, worldwide fame and screen success used to come via Hollywood, agents and producers, but now, thanks to the internet, you can be world-famous without meeting anyone else in person or even leaving your bedroom. In Archive on 4: Everyone’s a Star (Saturday, Radio 4, 8.00pm), technology journalist Chris StokelWalker explores the rise of YouTube, from a small video-hosting website to a platform for people to broadcast almost anything they want to an audience that’s bigger than all TV networks combined.
If you live on the top floor of a block of flats, is it the most inconvenient residence in the building or the most glamorous and desirable? That probably depends entirely on whether or not there’s a lift. Lift Going Up (Sunday,
Radio 4, 1.30pm) is a programme about the cultural history of the elevator, with Emma Clarke providing the voice of the lift, which looks at how lifts have made life easier in many did all the time?
In a new 10-part series The Californian Century (Monday to Friday, Radio 4, 1.45pm), Hollywood actor Stanley Tucci plays a hard-nosed screenwriter telling the story of the state and how it came to symbolise glamour and opportunity, but not forgetting some of its more sordid tales. It’s the full, glitzy and dirty story of modern California, told as if it were a Hollywood script.
The way our bodies have evolved might just be completely unsuitable for modern life. The Compass: Changing World, Changing
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