There’s not much to say about this playlist, perhaps because there’s not much one can say about the exasperating state of the world in general.
Whatever the reasons and whatever the outcome of the uncertain things that are to come this year, you can take some solace in knowing that this is the twentieth edition of Radio JRB and so here is a short, sharp but eclectically ear-pricking playlist of twenty songs for your listening pleasure, while we wait to see what happens next:
- Tymon Smith is a member of The JRB Editorial Advisory Panel, and a freelance journalist who writes about the arts and South African history. Previously the literary editor of the Sunday Times, he is the recipient of a silver Standard Banks Arts Journalist of the Year Award for feature writing. He was the head researcher for the interactive DVD Between Life and Death: Stories from John Vorster Square, and is working on a book about the Johannesburg police station.
