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Episode 2 of 5, The Essay, The Sound and the Fury
Duration: 15 minutes
The author and journalist Andrew Martin has phonophobic traits, which call for some extreme actions:
"So I went out to buy my first box of earplugs. I must have bought... well, about a box a month ever since. The best ones are made of wax; they're covered in cotton wool and they're about the size of aniseed balls. You get twelve in a box. Soon I know I'd become addicted to them. I had also, by then, become addicted to the use at night of electrcial fans for the creation of 'white noise'. I kept them going all night long..."
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.
Tue 24 Jan 2012 22:45 BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3Tue 24 Jan 2012 22:45 BBC Radio 3
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