24Feb

The last time we tried ID cards

posted by Steve Bowbrick

Spot-on opener for the new series of Jonathan Freedland’s The Long View on Radio 4. The programme’s about the last time we tried ID cards in the UK and the court case that brought it all to an end in 1950. I could say something glib: ‘important lesson’, ‘timely reminder’, ‘tinker with an Englishman’s rights at your peril…’ something like that… but you should probably just listen to it (I’ve got an MP3 if you find the programme’s been overwritten by next week’s).

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  1. Posted by Murky on Friday 25th February

    Thanks for the heads up, as an aside - Did you covert from .ram to .mp3, and if so what did you use?

    In know in our time has an mp3 link, but as of this morning it is broken.

  2. Posted by Murky on Friday 25th February

    did I say ‘in our time’? I meant ‘The Long view’!

  3. Posted by Steve Bowbrick on Friday 25th February

    I use the outstanding Audio Hijack Pro - practically my favourite application ever. In case you’re on Windows I think there are dozens of similar apps - searching for capture real stream mp3 at Google produces hundreds of promising-looking matches.

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