Author and journalist Andrew Martin discusses noises that annoy us. How do we cope with jarring sounds in the modern world and is there an another way to live without the daily cacophony?

Martin explains ‘phonophobia’ and the strange measures he takes to banish it, laments ‘piped music’ and what he considers to be its worsening quality, talks about his boyhood love of train travel and noises on public transport today and looks to the skies, to those rumblings that always discombobulate him.

The Sound and the Fury at BBC Radio 3