What's the point of Listening?

Isn’t it great to be able to listen to so much music, to be able to search and scroll and find anything you want…? Or to have tracks suggested for you without even thinking about it…? Or is it? Perhaps you miss the days when you had to save up to buy a recording, and you loved it so much you listened over and over again. Or you waited for something to be played on the radio, knowing it might be the only chance you’d have to hear it. Tom Service explores how we listen today in the digital age and reflects on the pieces of music that changed his life when he heard them first, and then really listened to them, again and again. Producer: Ruth Thomson

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What's the point of Listening? is an episode from The Listening Service by BBC.

This episode is 28:34 long.

This episode was published on Mar 31, 2024.

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