Repeated tonight at 2am on BBC4 for those (like me) who missed it and prefer to avoid iPlayer.
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"...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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What about those (like me) who can only watch it on iPlayer - because of local geography we (as yet) have no digital signal - and I am certainly not going to have one of those satellite thingies on my house!Originally posted by Caliban View Post
I too thoroughly enjoyed both programmes - most interesting.
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Well then you're laughing, Grumpy - it's available for a month from tonight, it says.Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
"...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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Terrific echo in here!Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
Cool - I watched them both last night
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You avoid iPlayer ?Originally posted by Caliban View Post
but
have a cheesy ringtone
and cycle round London suicidally with headphones on ?
how wonderfully bonkers some folk are
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Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostYou avoid iPlayer ? No I don't, though I accept that my punctuation was at least ambiguous
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have a cheesy ringtone Bach...
and cycle round London suicidally with headphones on ? Headphones in... and I can still hear everything that's going on around... I don't have music on loud.
how wonderfully bonkers some folk are Indeed! Fun ain't it 
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"...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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I've just watched this, and must confess to a degree of disappointment. There was too much Diana Rigg (perhaps I've finally got past my 'Avengers' phase
), and it would have been helpful to have had sight of the text, or had it read to us. I found Dame Diana's final little homily embarrassingly trite. As far as critical assessment goes, Peter Sallis did what Tasmin Little said of the work itself - he said a lot in a little when he opined that it speaks for England.
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Very belatedly, the name of Julia Hwang suddenly rang a bell with me (I was confusing her with the pianist Yuja Wang). Julia is a current pupil at Clifton College and her achievements have been regularly reported in the local press. Another happy Bristol connection with the piece.Originally posted by french frank View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Did you notice that the programme from the original concert showed Rev E H Fellowes as one of the performers? Another Bristol connection - he had been Precentor at Bristol Cathedral from 1897 - 1900.Originally posted by french frank View PostComment
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And I take it everyone except me already knew all thisOriginally posted by subcontrabass View Post because they'd seen the programme!
Btw, on RVW's relationship to Darwin, I dared not post this on the 'Creationism is not science' thread, but liked the anecdote told by Ursula which I found in a programme note:
"A propos the Darwin heritage, Mrs. Vaughan Williams tells a story I cannot resist passing on. At six or seven, Ralph asked his mother about The Origin of Species and what it meant. She answered: "The Bible says that God made the world in six days, Great Uncle Charles thinks it took longer: but we need not worry about it, for it is equally wonderful either way."
Last edited by french frank; 15-01-12, 22:21.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Originally posted by french frank View Post
Btw, on RVW's relationship to Darwin, I dared not post this on the 'Creationism is not science' thread, but liked the anecdote told by Ursula which I found in a programme note:
"A propos the Darwin heritage, Mrs. Vaughan Williams tells a story I cannot resist passing on. At six or seven, Ralph asked his mother about The Origin of Species and what it meant. She answered: "The Bible says that God made the world in six days, Great Uncle Charles thinks it took longer: but we need not worry about it, for it is equally wonderful either way."
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Lovely!Originally posted by french frank View PostAnd I take it everyone except me already knew all this because they'd seen the programme!
Btw, on RVW's relationship to Darwin, I dared not post this on the 'Creationism is not science' thread, but liked the anecdote told by Ursula which I found in a programme note:
"A propos the Darwin heritage, Mrs. Vaughan Williams tells a story I cannot resist passing on. At six or seven, Ralph asked his mother about The Origin of Species and what it meant. She answered: "The Bible says that God made the world in six days, Great Uncle Charles thinks it took longer: but we need not worry about it, for it is equally wonderful either way."
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