Building a Library - General Discussion

[kernelbogey]

...It’s a pity we can’t set up our own radio station.

Online only would be the way to go....

[LMcD]

There are folks here adept at the genome or other sources. I'm just wondering when Interpretations on Record started and the date of the last one. My recordings on reel to reel (and audio Hi8 VHS) have long gone, and I only kept a few cassettes. But I have a large quantity of Minidiscs - I wonder if I recorded any?

I haven't done a complete search on the Genome, but the earliest I've found was broadcast on 31/10/1959 and it was still going in 1978.

[Roslynmuse]

I haven't done a complete search on the Genome, but the earliest I've found was broadcast on 31/10/1959 and it was still going in 1978.

Latest I can see is https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a7500593...cc2725e6d501b2

3rd Jan 1997 - George Pratt on Bach Cello Suites (a repeat).

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes, I noticed that. The title isn’t really my style, but never mind.

I toyed with the idea of re-naming it.

Imho the question is more about how it can be made a more useful & satisfactory format (certainly taking some aspects from earlier manifestations, such as doing away with the time-wasting phoney conversation style), to take into account the hugely extended list of available versions of many works, rather than simply reverting to the past when the selection of recordings on the market was far smaller.

Open to suggestions of a revised title

[vinteuil]

I toyed with the idea of re-naming it.
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Open to suggestions of a revised title

... you mean "I wish Building a Library were... " rather than "I wish Building a Library was... "



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[french frank]

... you mean "I wish Building a Library were... " rather than "I wish Building a Library was... "



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Yer what? S'not plural, is it?

[vinteuil]

Yer what? S'not plural, is it?

... sorry, subjunctives not allowed on the anti-elitist radio 3



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[french frank]

... sorry, subjunctives not allowed on the anti-elitist radio 3



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Curiously, this article suggests the subjunctive use is more common in the US than here.

[Pulcinella]

Curiously, this article suggests the subjunctive use is more common in the US than here.

My partner tells me that it would undoubtedly be the subjunctive in Italian.

[vinteuil]

My partner tells me that it would undoubtedly be the subjunctive in Italian.

I wish it were the case that native English speakers had such confidence!

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[Pulcinella]

I wish it were the case that native English speakers had such confidence!

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Well: he's paying for his Italian lessons, so I hope that he's being taught properly!

[Serial_Apologist]

I wish it were the case that native English speakers had such confidence!

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If I were a carpenter
And you were a lady,
Would you marry me anyway,
Would you have my baby?

- Joan Baez??

[french frank]

If I were a carpenter
And you were a lady,
Would you marry me anyway,
Would you have my baby?

- Joan Baez??

If I were a rich man,
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum.
If I were a wealthy man.

- Sheldon Harnick

[gurnemanz]

If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well
It were done quickly.

Macbeth

[vinteuil]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcYTifM1IW8

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