Sid Waddell Educates Australia

It takes just three clicks to find a clip of Sid Waddell discussing darts, the Gulbenkian library and the Geordie  Nation to ABC Radio's Mick O'Regan and what must be a confused, but then enlightened set of Australian listeners.

You can visit Charles Frith's excellent Punk Planning, who'll tell you about Speechification. Speechification like sourcing and sharing all the gems of speech radio me and you have missed. And from there you get Sid. Nice to see Martin Kelner brought on beforehand to act as a sort of pre-interview translator.

This is education. "The best way to play the Geordie way of sport is to compare it to the Sioux Indians, who are a mighty nation split into little tribes. We Geordies will kick hell Newcastle out of Sunderland."

Listen, download or read the transcript here.

More Sid here.

We are lucky to be alive. Marvellous stuff.

Comments

[neilperkin]

Thanks for this. And yes, Mr Frith's blog is indeed excellent.