Today I’m joined by Anna Doble, whose musical lockdown project was to listen to her collection of 300 vinyls, in chronological order, and document the process. Anna is a journalist, currently Digital Editor for the BBC World Service programme, where she leads online journalism and social media strategy around podcasts, radio and video content.

In this episode she tells us about the memories that her project unlocked for her. We talk about the intense connection between music and memory, how musical lockdown projects helped us connect to people in a different way, and how the way in which we listen to music has evolved over time.

At the end of the episode we take a little detour and talk about how Anna’s incredible audience engagement work helped the hit crowd investigation podcast Death in Ice Valley win podcast of the year and best use of crowdsourcing or citizen journalism at the drum Online Media Awards in 2019.

I asked Anna for music recommendations at the end of the episode: here are the two albums she recommended.

http://www.saintetienne.com/music/so-tough/

https://theorielles.co.uk/videos-and-streams

And this was her original piece for the BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-56187737