Venue: Kirkcudbright Parish Hall, 8 St Mary St, Kirkcudbright DG6 4AQ
Ex-BBC producer Beaty Rubens’ study of the power of radio in in 20 th century Britain is ‘full of fascinating and often poignant detail’ according to The Guardian. In 1928 a “clerk in a provincial city” wrote to the BBC to say “how much wireless means to me and thousands of the same sort. It’s a real magic carpet.” Beaty will remind us why, almost 100 years later, this still matters.
Venue: Kirkcudbright Parish Hall, 8 St Mary St, Kirkcudbright DG6 4AQ
Ex-BBC producer Beaty Rubens’ study of the power of radio in in 20 th century Britain is ‘full of fascinating and often poignant detail’ according to The Guardian. In 1928 a “clerk in a provincial city” wrote to the BBC to say “how much wireless means to me and thousands of the same sort. It’s a real magic carpet.” Beaty will remind us why, almost 100 years later, this still matters.
For 35 years Beaty Rubens was an award-winning BBC Radio producer, making arts and documentary programmes and collaborating with great cultural figures such as Lyse Doucet, Michael Morpurgo, Mary Beard and James Naughtie. In 2025 she curated a major exhibition for the Bodleian Library in Oxford, called Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home, and published a book with the same name.
