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

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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163

    #61
    Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
    Garden of Earthly Delights tonight!
    No need to show off, Richard - some of us have only got the telly to look forward to!
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26523

      #62
      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      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

      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • Richard Tarleton

        #63

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        • ardcarp
          Late member
          • Nov 2010
          • 11102

          #64
          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...........
          Last edited by ardcarp; 08-03-16, 15:49.

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          • DublinJimbo
            Full Member
            • Nov 2011
            • 1222

            #65
            Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
            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.

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            • DublinJimbo
              Full Member
              • Nov 2011
              • 1222

              #66
              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.)

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              • Richard Tarleton

                #67
                Originally posted by DublinJimbo View Post
                (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)

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                • ardcarp
                  Late member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 11102

                  #68
                  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?

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                  • DublinJimbo
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2011
                    • 1222

                    #69
                    Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
                    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.

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                    • gurnemanz
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 7380

                      #70
                      Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
                      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.

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                      • cincinnatus
                        Full Member
                        • Mar 2011
                        • 41

                        #71
                        Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
                        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'.

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                        • vinteuil
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12793

                          #72
                          ... ain't it all much simpler than that - "Funny name, that... ", uttered by a chap burdened with the moniker Waldemar Januszczak....

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                          • jean
                            Late member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 7100

                            #73
                            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.)

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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37595

                              #74
                              Originally posted by jean View Post
                              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.

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                              • ardcarp
                                Late member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 11102

                                #75
                                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.)
                                Last edited by ardcarp; 08-03-16, 15:54.

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