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Public Address 16/11/09 - Deprived of speech

Public Address 16/11/09 - Deprived of speech, he sang without words

Deprived of speech, he sang without words | Nov 16, 2009 10:38
Russell Brown's Hard News
I still have the June 11 texts on my phone. The first was blunt and alarming: "Chris Knox has had a stroke," and then later, " … prognosis not good". What has happened since has been a story of trauma and love and friendship and, now, a remarkable recording project...
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A World First of the Second Kind | Nov 16, 2009 07:51
David Haywood from Christchurch
Not all 'World Firsts' are as impressive as they sound. I like to think of them as falling into two distinct 'kinds'. There's the important 'first kind', such as: First Man on the Moon (Neil Armstrong), First Trans-Atlantic Wireless Message (Guglielmo Marconi), and First Computer Programmer (Ada Lovelace). And then...
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