The Renaissance Unchained, BBC 4, 9pm, 15 Feb.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Garden of Earthly Delights tonight!

No need to show off, Richard - some of us have only got the telly to look forward to!

[Nick Armstrong]

No need to show off, Richard - some of us have only got the telly to look forward to!

I imagine his neighbours must be used to it by now

[Richard Tarleton]

[ardcarp]

Did anyone notice that in the last episode he mused, "Janus...funny name that". It has only just occurred to me why he said it...........

[DublinJimbo]

Did anyone notice that in the last episode he mused, "Jason...funny name that". It has only just occurred to me why he said it...........

I'm still mystified.

[DublinJimbo]

I'm disappointed. It's finished. No more. My Mondays will not be the same.

(By the way, was anybody else impressed by the music? Not just its oh-so-rightness, but also the intelligent way it was used throughout. Well done Simon Russell, I say.)

[Richard Tarleton]

(By the way, was anybody else impressed by the music? Not just its oh-so-rightness, but also the intelligent way it was used throughout. Well done Simon Russell, I say.)

Yes!

(I'm still puzzling over Jason - I missed the first half and will watch again tonight)

[ardcarp]

Waldemar Januszczak ?

was anybody else impressed by the music?

Yes, by the 'background' music; though in the last episode I was not thrilled by the person singing plainsong, who was clearly not at home with the idiom. She was presumably put there to illustrate that the place being discussed was monk- and nun-ridden. Did they all drop a minor third in 17th century Europe?

[DublinJimbo]

Waldemar Januszczak ?

Ah! subtle, that.

Yes, by the 'background' music; though in the last episode I was not thrilled by the person singing plainsong, who was clearly not at home with the idiom. She was presumably put there to illustrate that the place being discussed was monk- and nun-ridden. Did they all drop a minor third in 17th century Europe?

Agreed.

[gurnemanz]

Waldemar Januszczak ?

This doesn't really work as far as I can work out from some Googling: Janusz is the Polish equivalent of John - link and the suffix -czak means son of - link . So his name is Johnson.

[cincinnatus]

Did anyone notice that in the last episode he mused, "Jason...funny name that". It has only just occurred to me why he said it...........

I thought he was looking at a ceiling painting of the gods. One of them was the 2-faced god Janus (as in January) and that is why he said 'funny name that'.

[vinteuil]

... ain't it all much simpler than that - "Funny name, that... ", uttered by a chap burdened with the moniker Waldemar Januszczak....

[jean]

Yes, it's perfectly simple if the name he quoted was 'Janus' .

If he said 'Jason' however, as originally reported, it's a bit less so.

(Haven't seen it yet, so I can't judge.)

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes, it's perfectly simple if the name he quoted was 'Janus' .

If he said 'Jason' however, as originally reported, it's a bit less so.

(Haven't seen it yet, so I can't judge.)

Well worth watching jean - the whole episode.

[ardcarp]

Stupid me to type 'Jason' when I meant Janus.
Of course he said 'Janus'. I can think of no other reason for his left-of-field comment unless he thought it was a pun. Look at the programme and see. Anyway, puns don't have to be etymologically watertight to work. (Mine never are.)