Hearspool 14: Ink and Velvet is the latest hourlong experimental radio production from Momus, broadcast today on Basic.FM at 2pm UK time or available here as an mp3. This episode mixes Pimsleur language-learning exercises with the ghost scene from Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, Lavinia Greenlaw’s verse take on Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, Serge Gainsbourg in Morocco, documentaries on the Silk Road and the burning of the great library of Alexandria, an interrupted newscaster, a troglodyte musician, and the music

Previous Hearspools:

Hearspool 1: George Apollo