Jarvis mentions Independent Record Stores Day; the characteristics of Geminis; and Pacman. Adam Curtis discusses his new BBC2 series All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace. He thinks that nowadays we all imagine ourselves less as individuals, more as co-operating nodes in a network. But romantically hoping society can be organised in that 'managerial' way is problematic. And he argues that because computers can easily archive material, we've begun to think of culture as something to curate, not to create. Has this made us too conservative and afraid of change? Birthdays: Richard Wagner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Hergé (on Tintin's origins), Sun Ra (who believed he had not been born), Harvey Milk, Kenny Ball, Peter Nero, the Unabomber, George Best (attributing his sporting skills to his mum), Morrissey (on why he'll never reform The Smiths), Gérard de Nerval, Bernie Taupin (who envisages his own birth), Jordan and Charles Aznavour.
Dengue Fever - Sleepwalking Through the Mekong
Echo and the Bunnymen - Silver (Tidal Wave)
Lorena B - Intro
Bill Callahan - Universal Applicant
The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds - Gemini, the Cool Eye
Traffic - Dream Gerrard
Kate Bush - Deeper Understanding
Richard Brautigan reads his poem 'All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace'
Nine Inch Nails - Right Where It Belongs
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Gennady Rozhdestvensky - Dance of the Women in Shabby Coats, from Shostakovich's The Bolt
Fat Truckers - I Love Computers
Morrissey - Every Day Is Like Sunday
Jimmy Radcliffe - There Goes the Forgotten Man
Bernie Taupin - Child: Birth
Kenny Ball - The Green Leaves of Summer
The Devoted - I Love George Best
Charles Aznavour - You've Let Yourself Go
Sun Ra - Saturn
The Specials - What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend
Jon Spencer - I Wanna Make It All Right
JCSS Adam Curtis (1) 2010
