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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163

    "allowed"?
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • kernelbogey
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 5735

      Listened to PP today for the first time in a long while. Opera designer Hildegard Bechtler was the guest. Michael B seems to have slowed down and become... a bit boring? I'm not quite sure what has changed. I nearly switched off, but persisted to the end.

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      • eighthobstruction
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 6425

        ....that hated (by some here)playwright Stephen Poliakoff was guest a couple of weeks ago....the music had the atmosphere of his TV scripts....a bit fascinating but not enough to make me stay listening....
        bong ching

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        • un barbu
          Full Member
          • Jun 2017
          • 131

          I enjoyed Sebastian Barry earlier this month, more for his craic perhaps than for the music. And the extraordinary use of a shared memory of his father taking him to hear Rostropovich play Bach which he used as a gesture to heal what he described as a 'sundering' breach between them.
          Barbatus sed non barbarus

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          • Wychwood
            Full Member
            • Aug 2017
            • 247

            A gentle PP today, with Nick Davies speaking so beautifully about the behaviour of birds. A repeat, but I missed it first time around, so apologies if this adds nothing new. Thought-provoking: the cheating, murderous cuckoo could survive or perish, depending on whether it chooses the Spanish or Italian route on its migration to sub-Saharan Africa.

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            • LeMartinPecheur
              Full Member
              • Apr 2007
              • 4717

              Originally posted by Wychwood View Post
              A gentle PP today, with Nick Davies speaking so beautifully about the behaviour of birds. A repeat, but I missed it first time around, so apologies if this adds nothing new. Thought-provoking: the cheating, murderous cuckoo could survive or perish, depending on whether it chooses the Spanish or Italian route on its migration to sub-Saharan Africa.


              I'd heard the end of it before, the bit you mention about the alternative routes to sub-Saharan Africa, but was delighted to hear the whole programme. It taught me a lot about cuckoos, though it still rather puzzles me how the trick of foisting eggs onto unsuspecting 'parents' ever got started in the first place.

              But I guess this is just a variation on the anti-evolution 'argument' that kangaroos can never have evolved from ordinary '4 feet on ground' animals because those making the earliest attempts to hop would have had the worst of both worlds for survival. (?)
              I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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              • LMcD
                Full Member
                • Sep 2017
                • 8396

                Today's guest Eugenia Chang had some very interesting things to say about making mathematics and classical music accessible.
                A rare factual error from Michael Berkeley, referring to the conclusion of Mahler's 2nd symphony: 'Words and music by Mahler'. I don't think so!

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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                  A rare factual error from Michael Berkeley, referring to the conclusion of Mahler's 2nd symphony: 'Words and music by Mahler'. I don't think so!
                  That depends on how much of the "conclusion" was broadcast: the text from "O glaube, mein hertz" is indeed from the pen of the composer.
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • LMcD
                    Full Member
                    • Sep 2017
                    • 8396

                    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                    That depends on how much of the "conclusion" was broadcast: the text from "O glaube, mein hertz" is indeed from the pen of the composer.
                    I like to learn one useful fact every day - so thank you! My CD liner notes don't make this clear.
                    (Did Mahler actually spell 'Herz' as 'hertz'? )

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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163

                      Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                      (Did Mahler actually spell 'Herz' as 'hertz'? )
                      Ouch!

                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 22110

                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        Ouch!

                        Don’t worry it was only rented!

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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163

                          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                          Don’t worry it was only rented!
                          By the kilo?
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • cloughie
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2011
                            • 22110

                            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                            Don’t worry it was only rented!
                            maybe by the vanload!

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                            • LMcD
                              Full Member
                              • Sep 2017
                              • 8396

                              I always rent from Hertz when I want to go ohm.

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37556

                                Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                                I always rent from Hertz when I want to go ohm.
                                Watt are you on about?

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