Episode 3
Author and journalist Andrew Martin recalls his boyhood love of train travel and the customer announcements heard on public transport.
In his series on the noises that annoy us, author and jornalist Andrew Martin recalls his boyhood love of train travel, now blasted away by ... customer announcements!!
Author Andrew Martin lays bare his life as a 'phonophobic'. How to cope with jarring sounds
in the modern world? And is there another way to live without the daily cacophony?
Producer Duncan Minshull
First broadcast in January 2012.
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