Listening to Rigel Crockett's soft spoken voice reading his reflections on sailing, racism, maritime history, oyster fishing, and more..is a journey. A very long meandering journey which probably hold up better in print. The story is quite moving, but the narrative trajectory changes course more than did Columbus on his early voyages.
This is clearly from a book or print effort that could translate to radio with more attention to production, and lots of editing. It's a great story, but it's not the best radio story in it's current state. In a check of Rigel's website, the same piece is available as a podcast, which may make it more listenable, but at it's current length of 17 minutes ( including the 3 minute music out ) it may be a journey too far... at least for the radio.
Review of Surrender
Michael Johnson
Posted on May 25, 2006 at 02:24 PM
Listening to Rigel Crockett's soft spoken voice reading his reflections on sailing, racism, maritime history, oyster fishing, and more..is a journey. A very long meandering journey which probably hold up better in print. The story is quite moving, but the narrative trajectory changes course more than did Columbus on his early voyages.
This is clearly from a book or print effort that could translate to radio with more attention to production, and lots of editing. It's a great story, but it's not the best radio story in it's current state. In a check of Rigel's website, the same piece is available as a podcast, which may make it more listenable, but at it's current length of 17 minutes ( including the 3 minute music out ) it may be a journey too far... at least for the radio.