Private Passions

[JFLL]

moving on a few days I like the programme and enjoyed Mark Wallinger today (July 15) but why when ending with a discussion of Whiter Shade of Pale did they merely refer vaaguely to Bach when the thing that really shouts at the listener is that the melody is a direct crib from Poeme by Fibich (with a bit of When a man loves a woman by Percy Sledge thrown in). I like sixties poular music but not when it is stolen from classical composers without acknowledgement.

But would Procol Harum ever have heard Fibich's Poeme (I certainly haven't) or even heard of Fibich (I hadn't in 1967)? And if not, could A Whiter Shade of Pale really be called a direct crib? (More a case of great minds thinking alike? )

[pursuivant]

moving on a few days I like the programme and enjoyed Mark Wallinger today (July 15) but why when ending with a discussion of Whiter Shade of Pale did they merely refer vaaguely to Bach when the thing that really shouts at the listener is that the melody is a direct crib from Poeme by Fibich (with a bit of When a man loves a woman by Percy Sledge thrown in). I like sixties poular music but not when it is stolen from classical composers without acknowledgement.

A little bit of The Blessed Brian goes a very long way when he is in OTT mode. But I loved it (I don't usually listen to PP), his stories were wonderful if slightly of the 'do I really believe that?' variety, but I loved his choice of music. How about he does a Saturday Classics?

He's bonkers, but in the best possible way. I loved it. If I had been someone who had never heard a piece of classical music, I'd have been a more than willing acolyte. On the other hand, if I'd been someone who'd never heard a piece of classical music, I wouldn't have been listening to "Private Passions". Anyway, what a hoot! And lovely music too.

[Nick Armstrong]

Great programme with Brian Blessed... One struggles to believe some of his stories, as if it were a 1 April edition thick with tall stories: that he was almost recruited by Birgit Nilsson and Nikolai Gedda to become a dramatic tenor, but decided to stick with acting... that he has recently completed 800 hours of training at the Moscow Space Centre and is a fully qualified cosmonaut

All his music choices exactly what one might expect!

I'd (readily) swap the noisy self-parodic self-indulgencies of the HIGNfY appearence for his Augustus in Hi, Claudius!

I'd forgotten that.

[aeolium]

I'd (readily) swap the noisy self-parodic self-indulgencies of the HIGNfY appearence for his Augustus in Hi, Claudius!

, fhg. I love the scene where he goes down the line of his daughter's lovers.

Heard a bit in the car as he was talking about Branwell Bronte, his father weeping, and Sibelius 2 - there was a connection but not sure what. I was trying to picture the expression on Michael Berkeley's face while this was going on.

His 3 greatest TV roles (Z Cars apart) - Porthos, Reuben Starkadder and chairing HIGNFY.

I'd be keen to include his subtle assumption in Flash Gordon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxaVxF1D0XM

How did 007 get in there?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

His 3 greatest TV roles (Z Cars apart) - Porthos, Reuben Starkadder and chairing HIGNFY.

I'd (readily) swap the noisy self-parodic self-indulgencies of the HIGNfY appearence for his Augustus in Hi, Claudius!

Heard a bit in the car as he was talking about Branwell Bronte, his father weeping, and Sibelius 2 - there was a connection but not sure what. I was trying to picture the expression on Michael Berkeley's face while this was going on.

His 3 greatest TV roles (Z Cars apart) - Porthos, Reuben Starkadder and chairing HIGNFY.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i failed his first sentence getting too irritated at about 3' 50" and turned the radio off ....... the ensuing silence was blessed .....

[Mary Chambers]

I find his voice (not what he says) irritating in the extreme, but I enjoyed his choices and his reasons for them.

The man surely needs a series -- we might even hear him singing Siegfried!

..or 'Climb Every Mountain'. (He'd have no trouble keeping 7 children in order)

[JFLL]

I very much enjoyed it - they don't make them like him anymore........

The man surely needs a series -- we might even hear him singing Siegfried!

[antongould]

I very much enjoyed it - they don't make them like him anymore........