Every Friday I’ll amuse myself by putting up something from my audio files. Sometimes it will be an interview, sometimes a reading, sometimes a song. Today it’s one of my favourite interviews, with Jim Fleming on PRI’s “To the Best of Our Knowledge,” first broadcast in December 2006. Here’s the flash player:
http://www.nicolagriffith.com/audio/player.swf
and the direct link, or you can play it from the sidebar. Let me know what you think, and if you have any requests…
Nicola Griffith 
I enjoyed the interview. It provides sustenance to my aging brain. :)Your voice is confidant, soothing, reassuring. I do so hope that Aud will return when Hild is said and done.I also like music. I listen to it when I write. I’ll look forward to a tad of that as well on Fridays.
Thank you. Actually I was totally stoned for this interview, kept forgetting what the hell I was saying. It’s a ridiculous story: I took someone else’s meds by mistake that morning. How dim can you get? (Pretty dim, once those pills hit my system. I couldn’t even tell where my legs were never mind how on earth they were supposed to work.)Still, I’m glad you liked my voice. I never sound quite the way I imagine I should.Today I had the disturbing experience of hearing my voice, something I recorded for Australian radio a few years ago, speeded up slightly. I sounded quite…girly, and a bit posh. Very weird. Maybe I’ll post that next week, freak everyone out :)
I absolutely echo the fact that you have a soothing voice. Maybe you could set your blog up so my computer reads it to me.
gentry, that would be a cool trick…
Yeah, this was fun! Enjoyed the interview. But, also liked that it was soooo EASY to access. I look forward to hearing more.One thing; is it redundant to say “lesbian women” as the interviewer did? Since a person would have to be a woman to be a lesbian. Duff
I think he was saying ‘lesbian woman’ to humanise, de-demonise, the term–one that still frightens man. Sigh.I’m glad you found the access easy. I had to work pretty hard to make it look good, sound good, and, y’know, work good :)
Yeah, but remember on the first season of the L Word? When Alice was dating Lisa, a man who identified as a ‘lesbian man?’ They are out there I guess. And, oh yeah, that was when Alice was bi-sexual. Guess she changed her mind about that.But I’m sure that wasn’t what the interviewer was talking about…
One of the quotes I want to talk about one of these fine days is from Socrates: “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” Tautology drives me nuts, crazy, insane :)