No.
1 It's safer, but not completely safe features an extract from
a radio interview given by Murray Walker, the famous British motor-racing
commentator. I heard the interview on the radio, but I had no tape recorder.
I have recorded what he said in my own voice, but if you want to hear
Murray Walker's own voice, click on his photograph to navigate to a website
where you can hear the man himself.
Contributed by Richard Cauldwell.
No.
2 I read in a newspaper this morning ... features a long tone
unit from a BBC Radio 4 'Today' programme in 1992 - thirteen words, eighteen
syllables spoken at 400 words per minute, or 9 syllables per second. It
is interesting not only for its speed, but also for two other reasons,
one linguistic, one political: it is a good example of a question in declarative
form; and it is a very agressive question, typical of the adversarial
nature of political interviews on many BBC news programmes.
Contributed by Richard Cauldwell.