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Private Passions
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Yesterday 30 September: Bel Mooney, who bravely and movingly had published a piece in the Guardian in 1976 about the stillbirth of her son - then still a more or less taboo subject, with very little help available to the bereaved mother. It led to the formation of the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society. This Private Passions was on top form, as she spoke so coherently and affectingly about her story, and about her marriage to Jonathan Dimbleby and its ending. Highly recommended.
She quoted I don't know whom: 'Live as well as you dare'. I wrote it down.
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostYesterday 30 September: Bel Mooney, who bravely and movingly had published a piece in the Guardian in 1976 about the stillbirth of her son - then still a more or less taboo subject, with very little help available to the bereaved mother. It led to the formation of the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society. This Private Passions was on top form, as she spoke so coherently and affectingly about her story, and about her marriage to Jonathan Dimbleby and its ending. Highly recommended.
She quoted I don't know whom: 'Live as well as you dare'. I wrote it down.
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
She quoted I don't know whom: 'Live as well as you dare'. I wrote it down.
In February of 1820, on learning that his good friend, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, was suffering from a bout of depression, noted essayist and clergyman Sydney Smith sent her the following pr…
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Originally posted by Prommer View PostDare I ask if anyone has listened to Private Passions with the Prince of Wales...?
Where usually he's encouraging his guests to chart their career path in some detail, that wasn't really on in this case (perhaps the fact that the PoW still hasn't really started his first job was a factor?). And of course MB may have been much restricted by ground rules laid down in advance. This forced more very general discussion of arts, artistic influences, esp QE the QM, and about his specific reasons for his musical choices, which inevitably forced him into some general, not entirely coherent 'waffle' about why he liked them.
That's not a criticism: nobody can talk well about this, unless perhaps they can reel off factual, analytical stuff about how the music is organised and that really is the main reason they like it (which makes for a pretty dry, cerebral approach).I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostI agree with "pretty".I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!
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Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View PostA pleasant programme but slightly off MB's usual path, I felt.
Where usually he's encouraging his guests to chart their career path in some detail, that wasn't really on in this case (perhaps the fact that the PoW still hasn't really started his first job was a factor?). And of course MB may have been much restricted by ground rules laid down in advance. This forced more very general discussion of arts, artistic influences, esp QE the QM, and about his specific reasons for his musical choices, which inevitably forced him into some general, not entirely coherent 'waffle' about why he liked them.
That's not a criticism: nobody can talk well about this, unless perhaps they can reel off factual, analytical stuff about how the music is organised and that really is the main reason they like it (which makes for a pretty dry, cerebral approach).
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