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http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/aug/19/radio.radio
Yesterday's radio featured two engrossing urban stories with very different moods. City Messengers (Radio 4), a beautifully produced documentary, glimpsed into the lives of cycle couriers. The toughness of the job was made clear ("most people quit in the first week") but the portrayal - a rich soundscape of music and traffic noise, plus intriguing slivers of interview - left you associating it with wanderlust and non-conformity. It was hard not to like Will, 43, who has been a courier since 1992. He doesn't mind when people are snooty about his job, seeing it as a "really quick way of sifting out that I'm not going to get along with [them]".