Good Tunes: 'Essential Mix 2001 12 16 Jo Mills'
Thanks to my past (bad?) habit of saving everything, I think I found the mix I’ve been looking for, the one I heard at the end of my first semester of college. My mom and I have been going through old things for about a year, sorting through the seemingly countless bins and boxes stuffed full of my family’s past. I found a lot of college-related material last week, including the schedule for Iowa’s 2001–2002 academic year, my first in college. “Oooo,” I thought, immediately thinking of the mix. I scanned the dates for the first semester’s finals week: December 17–21. I am pretty sure I heard the mix on the Monday of finals week. I previously assumed finals week was earlier that month and based my searches on those weeks. (Did I search for the dates online? Probably, but must not have been able to find them.) I hit the web again armed with the exact dates. The BBC website was no use, so I checked the Wayback Machine, but the schedule captured for that month is past the week I wanted. I...
