20thC composers in their own words: new series on BBC4 TV

[ahinton]

The Canadians can spell, but they're ethnic Scots anyway.

Tell that to the next Québecois that you meet!

[Bryn]

... I cannot imagine that anyone would want a present of whisky that has an E in it ...

Most welcome here:

[ahinton]

Most welcome here:

Then I must be a little short on imagination (although that beverage wouldn't be welcome here, I'm afraid!)...

[Beef Oven!]

Tell that to the next Québecois that you meet!

I do, whenever I can.

[BBMmk2]

Has this series started?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Has this series started?

Starts on Friday, 14th March, BBC4, Bbm.

[Richard Barrett]

Then I must be a little short on imagination

... or a whisky snob.

(or both)

[mercia]

I notice the programmes will have a "narrator", Rebecca Front, who I assume will just be a voiceover introducing the clips and talking over the silent bits - unless we can hear Schoenberg shouting "you cannot be serious, the ball was on the line ....." etc.

[Boilk]

Come on, stop it.

01/01/00 was the first day of the new millennium, the 21st one. 14 years have elapsed since then. We are in the 15th year as we speak.

Unbelievable, or perhaps not, at how people will grapple at the weakest of 'justifications' to avoid reevaluating a misconception! I think this stubbornness could be somewhat related to a human trait known as confirmation bias.

[Beef Oven!]

Unbelievable, or perhaps not, at how people will grapple at the weakest of 'justifications' to avoid reevaluating a misconception! I think this stubbornness could be somewhat related to a human trait known as confirmation bias.

You would've been the only one going out on 31/12/2000 to celebrate the new millennium!

That puts you a year behind the rest of us!

2000 was, as far as planet Earth was concerned, the first year of the new millennium - now, taking a sock off, start counting!

I know you are suffering from a bit of confirmation bias, you don't need to tell me!!

[Radio64]

I notice the programmes will have a "narrator", Rebecca Front, who I assume will just be a voiceover introducing the clips and talking over the silent bits - unless we can hear Schoenberg shouting "you cannot be serious, the ball was on the line ....." etc.

So rebecca Front will be in the background?

(see what I did there?)

[Boilk]

You would've been the only one going out on 31/12/2000 to celebrate the new millennium!

That puts you a year behind the rest of us!

2000 was, as far as planet Earth was concerned, the first year of the new millennium - now, taking a sock off, start counting!

2000 was simultaneously the last year of the 20th century and the first year in our lives that began with the digit "2" ... that's what all the fuss (and numerical mis-association) was really about, so it got branded "the new millennium" even though that auspicious date (as was widely acknowledged at the time) was still 12 months away. Clearly your 100 times table isn't your forte.

[ahinton]

... or a whisky snob.

(or both)

No - definitely not a whisky snob (I deplore snobbery, not least of that kind!). Whilst I admire the Bushmills shown, it simply happens not to appeal to me personally (I could say the same for some of the real ales from around these parts - fine they are, but just not for me). It's not even Scottish snobbery; I'd rather a wee dram o' the Penderyn, as it happens.

No - it must be down to that paucity of imagination, I fear...

[ahinton]

I do, whenever I can.

And what kinds of answer do you receive?

Off topic - sorry!

[Boilk]

So rebecca Front will be in the background? (see what I did there?)

The delightful, seemingly ever-busy Rebecca Front was very much in the background for the recent, rather good 3-part architectural series The Brits Who Built the Modern World. Only noticed her in the closing credits.

She was more to the foreground in The Thick of It and Alan Partridge's Knowing Me, Knowing You...



...Aha!

(going off-topic...sorry!)