The theme of isolation in “The Idea of North” resonates again in the wake of the pandemic
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskOn the train, Gould struck up a conversation with Wally Maclean, a retired surveyor who combined a homespun folksiness with the soul of a philosopher. Over breakfast Maclean taught Gould how to read the signs of the icy land, to find “in the most minute measurement a suggestion of the infinite”. The cordial chat turned into a days-long, probing conversation.
The theme of isolation resonates again in the wake of the pandemic. What is more surprising is how fresh and experimental the programmes themselves sound, even in the high-tech, peak-podcast era. Take “The Idea of North”, in which Gould arranged the voices of four main characters into a single fugue. A technician recalled being handed a diagram by Gould, outlining which clips should be heard when; he was “orchestrating the voices” on the page.
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